David Whiting

Position: Associate Professor-Associate Chair OFFICE HOURS By Appointment Only Phone: 801-422-4193 Email: whiting AT byu dot edu Office: 230B TMCB Teaching: STAT 324, STAT 336

Current Vitae (PDF)

Whiting, D. G., Q. Snell, R. R. Nichols, M. L. Porter, K. Tew, K. A. Crandall, M. F. Whiting and M. Clement. (2004). "Complex Performance Analysis through Statistical Experimental Design: An Evaluation of Parameters Associated with Speed in Parallel Phylogenomics." Proceedings of the Hawaii International Conference on Computer Sciences.

McClellan, D. A., D. G. Whiting, R. Christensen and J. Sailsbery. (2004). "Genetic Codes as Evolutionary Filters: Subtle Differences in the Structure of Genetic Codes Result in Significant Differences in Patterns of Nucleotide Substitution." Journal of Theoretical Biology. 226: 393-400.

Huber, B. S., D. V. Allred, J. C. Carmen, D. D. Frame, D. G. Whiting, J. R. Cryan, T. R. Olson, P. J. Jackson, K. Hill, M. T. Laker, and R. A. Robison (2002). "Random amplified polymorphic DNA and amplified fragment length polymorphism analysis of clinical Pasteurella multocida isolates from fatal fowl cholera infections." Journal of Clinical Microbiology 40, 2163-2168.

Grimshaw, S. D., D. G. Whiting and T. O. Morris (2001). "Likelihood ratio tests for a mixture of two von Mises distributions." Biometrics 57, 160-165.

"Proteomic Prediction of Preterm Birth." M.S. Esplin, S. Graves, C. Thulin, D.G. Whiting. $85,000 2-year grant, received from the Maternal-Fetal Medicine Network (MFMN), a multi-site network under the auspices of the National Institutes of Health. This research is on determining the pattern of protein products from blood serum that can be used to predict preterm birth. Funding for 2003 to 2004.

"Systematic Biology and Bioinformatics Research Experiences for Undergraduates Site at BYU." D.S. Rogers, D.G.Whiting, L.A. Johnson. $225,000 NSF grant for training of undergraduate students via a summer systematics and bioinformatics research program. Funding for August 1, 2002 to July 31, 2005.

"Hexapod Phylogenomics: Bringing Phylogenetic Supercomputing to the Masses." M.F. Whiting, Q. Snell, M.J. Clement, D.G. Whiting, K.A. Crandall. $1.34 million NSF grant for interdisciplinary research in computational phylogenomics. Funding for January 1, 2002 to December 31, 2006.

"Phylogenetic Analysis: A Collaborative Approach." Q. Snell, M. Clement, M. Whiting, K. Crandall, D. Whiting, G. Fellingham, G. Burton. Brigham Young University internal funding for multidisciplinary phylogenetic research. $180,000. Funding for 2000-2002.

Ph.D. in Statistics, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, 1995.
M.S. in Statistics, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 1990.
B.A. in Chemistry, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, 1988.

Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University, 2004-present
Adjunct Assistant Professor, Department of Surgery, University of Utah Medical School, 2003-2004
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University, 1998-2004
Visiting Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Brigham Young University, 1995-1998

Data mining
Computational statistics
Proteomics
Bioinformatics,
Linear models