Luke Bornn

Dr. Luke Bornn is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University, prior to which he completed his PhD studies at the University of British Columbia (UBC). He has been awarded major national fellowships from the Garfield Weston Foundation, Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada, and the Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research, and has received numerous accolades for excellence in teaching, including a UBC Achievement Award and a Graduate Teaching Award.

In addition to service roles within UBC’s Department of Statistics and in the broader UBC community, Bornn has also served as an associate editor for the ISBA Bulletin, and is regularly involved in conference management and organization. His research focuses on Bayesian modeling of large-scale dynamic systems, with a particular interest in environmental modeling and spatial processes.