Kert Viele, PhD

Dr. Viele is a Director and Senior Statistical Scientist with Berry Consultants, LLC. His research interests involve Bayesian computational methods applied to adaptive clinical trials, functional data analysis, mixture modeling, and model selection. Dr. Viele received his Ph.D. from Carnegie Mellon University and prior to joining Berry Consultants in 2010, he was an Assistant and Associate Professor at the University of Kentucky. He has been a principal investigator (or co-PI) on NIH and NSF funded grants and has led statistical collaborations in proteomics, biology, medicine, psychology, and engineering. He has received University teaching awards, served as chair for data safety monitoring boards, and chaired numerous university committees. Dr. Viele has contributed more than 30 papers to the literature and is a former editor of the journal Bayesian Analysis. Dr. Viele was a software architect for FACTS (Fixed and Adaptive Clinical Trial Simulator), a Bayesian adaptive design software product currently licensed to several of the top 20 Pharmaceutical companies in the United States.