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Ivo D. Dinov, Short Biosketch

Years	Institution	Role/Degree	Field
2024-Present	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Faculty	Henry P. Tappan Collegiate Professor
2013-Present	University of Michigan, Ann Arbor	Faculty	Health Behavior and Biological Sciences, Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Data Science
2001-2013	University of California, Los Angeles	Faculty	Statistics and Neurology
1998-2001	UCLA School of Medicine	Postdoctoral Fellow	Computational Neuroscience and Brain Mapping
1993-1998	Florida State University	PhD/MS	Mathematics/Statistics
1993-1998	Florida State University	Pre-doctoral fellow	Industrial engineering/Optimization
1991-1993	Michigan Technological University	MS	Mathematics
1987-1991	University of Sofia, Bulgaria	BS	Mathematics and Informatics

Dr. Dinov's academic (mathematics) genealogy lineage starts in ancient Persia with Ibn Sina (c. 980 – 1037 AD), known as Avicenna, and also includes Bahmanyār ibn al-Marzubān (Iran) (1068), Manuel Bryennios (Greece) (1315), Cristoforo Landino (Italy) (1477), Jacob Bernoulli (Basel) (1696), Leonhard Euler (Switzerland) (1754), Pierre-Simon Laplace (France) (1800), Solomon Lefschet (Russia) (1911), Fred Huffer (USA) (1982), and De Witt L. Sumners (USA) (1967). This partial dynamic graph illustrates Prof. Dinov's academic heritage, here is a 3D rendition of Prof. De Witt Sumners' Interactive MGP Genealogy Graph, and here are his Dr. Dinov's CV and NIH Biosketch.

Dr. Ivo D. Dinov is the Henry P. Tappan Collegiate Professor, and professor of Health Behavior and Biological Sciences and Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics at the University of Michigan. Dr. Dinov is a member of the Michigan Center for Applied and Interdisciplinary Mathematics (MCAIM), a core member of the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center, and associate director of Precision Health (PH) Education and Training Workgroup. Dr. Dinov's GoogleScholar Profile and Michigan Experts Profile provide additional technical information about his scholarly work.

Prof. Dinov serves as:

Director of the Statistics Online Computational Resource (since 2002)
Co-Director of the multi-institutional Probability Distributome Initiative (since 2007)
Co-Director of the multi-institutional Editor, Journal Neuroinformatics (since 2022)
Research Scout for the Michigan Great Minds, Greater Discoveries, Bold Ideas Initiative (2022-2025)
Chair, Department of Systems, Populations and Leadership (SPL) (since 2022)
Member of the Nature Medicine Statistical Advisory Board (since 2025).

In the past he served as:

Associate Director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS, 2015-2022)
Associate Director of the Michigan Neuroscience Graduate Program (NGP, 2019-2021).
Associate Director of the Precision Health (PH) Education and Training Workgroup (2022).
Director of the Integrative Biostatistics and Informatics Core of the Michigan Nutrition and Obesity Research Center (2014-2020)
Director of the Udall Parkinson’s Disease Biostatistics and Data Management Core (2014-2020)
Co-Director of the Center for Complexity and Self-management of Chronic Disease (CSCD Center, 2014-2022)
Chief Operations Officer of the Center for Computational Biology (CCB) (2004-2013).

Dr. Dinov's memberships in professional societies include:

American Statistical Association (ASA)
International Association for Statistical Education (IASE)
American Mathematical Society (AMS)
American Physical Society (APS)
An Honorary Member (fellow) of the Sigma Theta Tau International Society
American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
An Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).

Between 2022 and 2023, Dr. Dinov served as Coach of the University of Michigan Men's Water Polo Team (Club):