Alan Willse
Expertise
Dr. Willse has broad experience in statistical applications in the sciences. As a graduate student he was cross-trained at Montana State University's Center for Biofilm Engineering, where he developed expertise in biofilm modeling, microbiological assay, reproducibility assessment in interlaboratory studies, and calibration of novel techniques for counting microbes and quantifying biofilm. He has collaborated with microbiologists, chemists, and engineers on significant environmental problems.
Since joining Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, Alan has performed as consultant, collaborator, and principal investigator on a variety of government and privately funded projects. Much of his work is concerned with high-dimensional data analysis, including data mining applications such as text mining and alias discovery, and, more recently, biomarker discovery. He has experience analyzing data from numerous analytical techniques used in the biomolecular sciences, including DNA microarrays, gas chromatography, mass spectrometry, and hyphenated techniques (GC-MS, GCxGC, GCxGC-MS, and LC-MALDI).
Education
- Ph.D., Statistics, Montana State University, 1999