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Selected Publications

Authors under my supervision marked with *:

  • Ahmadian, M.*, Boone, E.L., Chiu, G.S., Weng, K.C. (2026). “A new perspective to fish trajectory imputation: A spatiotemporal probability model for simulating acoustically tagged fish movement.” Journal of Applied Statistics: Environmental Statistics and Data Science, 1–21. DOI: 1080/29984688.2026.2623273
  • Hyman, A.C.*, Chiu, G.S., Seebo, M.S., Smith, A., Saluta, G.G., Lipcius, R.N. (2024). “Ontogenetic patterns in juvenile blue crab density: effects of habitat and turbidity in a Chesapeake Bay tributary,” Marine Ecology Progress Series 729, 135-150. DOI: 3354/meps14490
  • Chiu, G.S., Mitchell, M., Herman, J., Longo, C.*, Davis, K.* (2023). “Enhancing assessments of blue carbon stocks in marsh soils using Bayesian mixed-effects modeling with spatial autocorrelation — proof of concept using proxy data,” Frontiers in Marine Science 9:1056404. DOI: 3389/fmars.2022.1056404
  • Hyman, A.C.*, Chiu, G.S., Fabrizio, M.C., Lipcius, R.N. (2022). “Spatiotemporal modeling of nursery habitat using Bayesian inference: environmental drivers of juvenile blue crab abundance,” Frontiers in Marine Science 9:834990. DOI: 3389/fmars.2022.834990
  • Wasson, A.P., Chiu, G.S., Zwart, A.B., Binns, T.R.* (2017). “Differentiating wheat genotypes by Bayesian hierarchical nonlinear mixed modeling of wheat root density,” Frontiers in Plant Science 8:282. DOI: 3389/fpls.2017.00282
  • Chiu, G.S., Lehmann, E.A., Bowden, J.C. (2013). “A spatial modeling approach for the blending and error characterization of remotely sensed soil moisture products.” Journal of Environmental Statistics 4:9, 1–17. ISSN: 1945-1296. http://www.jenvstat.org/v04/i09
  • Chiu, G.S., Wu, M.A.*, Lu, L. (2013). “Model-based assessment of estuary ecosystem health using the latent health factor index, with application to the Richibucto estuary,” PLoS One 8:6, e65697, 1–12. DOI: 1371/journal.pone.0065697
  • Chiu, G.S., Westveld, A.H. (2011). “A unifying approach for food webs, phylogeny, social
    networks, and statistics.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the USA 108, 15881–15886. DOI: 1073/pnas.1015359108
  • Chiu, G.S., Gould, J.M.* (2009–2010). “Statistical inference for food webs with emphasis on ecological networks via Bayesian melding,” Environmetrics 21, 728–740. DOI: 1002/env.1035
  • Chiu, G., Lockhart, R., Routledge, R. (2006). “Bent-cable regression theory and applications,” Journal of the American Statistical Association 101, 542–553. DOI:
    1198/016214505000001177

Research Students and Interns

  • Madison GRIFFIN, PhD student (current), VIMS
  • Aileen MCDONALD, By-pass student (current), VIMS
  • Mahshid AHMADIAN, PhD student (2022-2026), Virginia Commonwealth University
  • Julie GROSS, PhD Student (2025), VIMS
  • Challen HYMAN, PhD in Marine Science (2023), VIMS
  • Kate DAVIS, Undergraduate RA (2022), VIMS ESTDatS Lab
  • Swen KUH, PhD in Statistics (2022), Australian National Unversity
  • Christian LONGO, Honors in Applied Statistics (2022), William & Mary Computational & Applied Mathematics & Statistics (CAMS)
  • Caleb BAKER, Honors in Applied Statistics (2021), William & Mary CAMS
  • Kayla RUTHERFORD, REU Summer Internship (2019), VIMS
  • Mark DAWKINS, Honours in Statistics (2017), Australian National Unversity
  • Megan EVANS, PhD in Environmental Policy (2017), Australian National Unversity
  • Timothy BINNS, Summer Vacation Internship (2014–2015), CSIRO
  • Swen KUH, Summer Research Internship (2014–2015), Australian National Unversity
  • Seoyoon CHO, Industrial Research Traineeship (2014), CSIRO
  • Hyangki LEE, Industrial Research Traineeship (2014), CSIRO
  • Shahedul KHAN, PhD (2010) in Biostatistics, University of Waterloo
  • Margaret WU, MMath (2009) in Biostatistics, University of Waterloo
  • Joshua GOULD, MMath (2008) in Statistics, University of Waterloo
  • Joslin GOH, Undergraduate Research Internship (2007) and International Work Study Program (2007), University of Waterloo

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