Ivo D. Dinov
Bulgarian–American academic scholar
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Education
In 1991, Dinov completed his undergraduate study in mathematics and informatics from Sofia University in Bulgaria. Under the supervision of Kenneth L. Kuttler, he wrote a master's thesis entitled "Bochner Integrals and vector measures" and received his MS in pure mathematics in 1993 from Michigan Technological University Advised by De Witt Sumners and Fred William Huffer, Dinov completed his MS in statistics and PhD in mathematics degrees at the Florida State University. His doctoral dissertation was on "Mathematical and statistical techniques for modeling and analysis of medical data".
Subsequently, Dinov was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). During his postdoctoral training at UCLA he received a T32 fellowship in neuroimaging and brain mapping, as part of the UCLA Institutional National Research Service Award.
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Academic career
Between 2001 and 2013, Dinov was a faculty in the departments of statistics and neurology at UCLA. In 2002, he founded the Statistics Online Computational Resource (SOCR).
In 2013, Dinov joined the faculty at the University of Michigan, where he has been serving in multiple academic leadership roles, including department chair, associate director of the Michigan Institute for Data Science, and chair of various University of Michigan faculty senate committees.
Dinov is an active member in several professional societies, including the American Statistical Association (ASA), International Association for Statistical Education (IASE), American Mathematical Society (AMS), American Physical Society (APS), and an honorary member (fellow) of the Sigma Theta Tau International Society and American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
Personal life
In 2022, as coach of the University of Michigan Men's Water Polo, Dinov led the Michigan Wolverines to a Big Ten Division title and was recognized as the "2022 Big Ten Division Men's Water Polo Coach of the Year".