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2025

  • Paper on monotonic warpings for deep Gaussian processes accepted to Statistics and Computing
  • Paper on contour location with deep Gaussian processes published in the Annals of Applied Statistics
  • Starting in 2025, I am returning to the Virginia Tech Department of Statistics after 1.5 years at NC State. Go Hokies!

2024

  • I attended the 2024 ISBA World Meeting in Venice, Italy to present my dissertation research as a finalist for the Savage Award
  • In 2024 I began a new project funded by the NCSU Controlled Environment Agriculture Coalition to study optimization of plant placement in greenhouses, with James Braun and Ricardo Herandez
  • I was recently selected as the recipient of the Shewell Award for my presentation at the 2023 Fall Technical Conference
  • New collaboration with Kevin Quinlan and Laura Wendelberger to study dimension reduction with deep Gaussian processes, funded by Lawrence Livermore National Lab
  • I’m starting work on a new project funded by the NSF to study digital twins of rotating detonation combustors for clean energy production, with James Braun

2023

  • In Summer of 2023, I married and changed my name from Annie Sauer to Annie (Sauer) Booth
  • New publication in the AIAA Scitech Conference Proceedings
  • I am now serving as Associate Editor for Technometrics
  • At the 2023 Fall Technical Conference, I served on a panel on Artificial Intelligence with Simon Mak, Alyson Wilson, and David Banks