Dr. Wu received his Ph.D. in Statistics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2006. He took a postdoctoral position at Princeton University from August 2006 to July 2008 and joined North Carolina State University in August 2008. His current research interests include: Longitudinal Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Variable Selection, Dimension Reduction, and Nonparametetric Statistics.

Dr. Motsinger-Reif is Associate Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University. She received her PhD in Human Genetics from Vanderbilt University in 2007. Her expertise is in computational genetics, pharmacogenetics, and epistasis.