She held previous faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Pennsylvania. Her areas of interest and expertise are in generalized statistical methods involving count data that contain data dispersion and in image analysis techniques, particularly low-level analyses including preprocessing, normalization, feature detection, and alignment. Maria A. Terres earned her PhD in statistical science at Duke University. She is a postdoctoral research scholar at North Carolina State University working with Montserrat Fuentes. Her research focuses on spatial-temporal modeling for environmental and ecological applications. As a graduate student at Duke, she was awarded the James B. Duke Fellowship and the 2014 Dean’s Award for Excellence in Teaching.