Brian J Reich

About

Brian J Reich is the Gertrude M. Cox Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistics at NC State University. He earned his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of Minnesota in 2005. His areas of expertise include Environmental Statistics, Bayesian Statistics, and Hierarchical Models. Dr. Reich has been recognized with awards such as the Dr. D. D. Mason Faculty Award for 2016-2017 and the Dr. Cavell Brownie Mentoring Faculty Award for 2021-2023. He is actively involved in research and teaching within the department, contributing to the fields of applied probability, data science, and statistical methodology.

Research topics

• Artificial Intelligence
• Computer Science
• Data Mining
• Geography
• Agronomy
• Mathematics
• Environmental science
• Ecology
• Remote sensing
• Geology

Selected publications

• A Review of Spatial Causal Inference\nMethods for Environmental and\nEpidemiological Applications

  International Statistical Review · 2021 · 87 citations

  1st authorCorresponding

  The scientific rigor and computational methods of causal inference have had great impacts on many disciplines but have only recently begun to take hold in spatial applications. Spatial causal inference poses analytic challenges due to complex correlation structures and interference between the treatment at one location and the outcomes at others. In this paper, we review the current literature on spatial causal inference and identify areas of future work. We first discuss methods that exploit sp…

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• Cretaceous climates: Mapping paleo-Köppen climatic zones using a Bayesian statistical analysis of lithologic, paleontologic, and geochemical proxies

  Palaeogeography Palaeoclimatology Palaeoecology · 2023 · 74 citations

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• A deep learning approach to identify smoke plumes in satellite imagery in near-real time for health risk communication

  Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology · 2020 · 68 citations

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• Landscape‐level variation in <i>Bt</i> crops predict <scp><i>Helicoverpa ze</i></scp><scp><i>a</i></scp> (<scp>Lepidoptera: Noctuidae</scp>) resistance in cotton agroecosystems

  Pest Management Science · 2021 · 17 citations

  BACKGROUND: Helicoverpa zea (Boddie) damage to Bt cotton and maize has increased as a result of widespread Bt resistance across the USA Cotton Belt. Our objective was to link Bt crop production patterns to cotton damage through a series of spatial and temporal surveys of commercial fields to understand how Bt crop production relates to greater than expected H. zea damage to Bt cotton. To do this, we assembled longitudinal cotton damage data that spanned the Bt adoption period, collected cotton d…

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• PFAS in Rural U.S. Well Water: Using Participatory Science to Identify and Communicate Results to Address Risks

  Environmental Science & Technology · 2025-08-07 · 3 citations

  articleOpen access

  = 271) from four U.S. states collected tap water samples for analysis of 25 PFAS. Participants received results report comparing their water to PFAS health guidelines and recommending water filters when guidelines were exceeded. Follow-up surveys asked respondents what actions they took in response. To identify potential PFAS sources, we computed distances from households to PFAS sources recorded in EPA's PFAS Analytic Tools and other public databases and used spatial regression models to analyz…

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Recent grants

• Projecting Flood Frequency Curves Under a Changing Climate Using Spatial Extreme Value Analysis

  NSF · $300k · 2022–2025

• Exploring tooth survival using Bayesian spatial models

  NIH · $322k · 2014–2018

• Spatial Causal Inference for Wildland Fire Smoke Effects on Air Pollution and Health

  NIH · $859k · 2020–2026

Frequent coauthors

• Montserrat Fuentes

  55 shared

• Howard D. Bondell

  University of Melbourne

  32 shared

• Ana G. Rappold

  Environmental Protection Agency

  32 shared

• Benjamin A. Shaby

  Colorado State University

  27 shared

• Yawen Guan

  Lanzhou University

  24 shared

• Jane A. Hoppin

  North Carolina State University

  21 shared

• Krishna Pacifici

  North Carolina State University

  21 shared

• Ana‐Maria Staicu

  North Carolina State University

  21 shared

Labs

• Reich LabPI

Awards & honors

• 2016-2017, Dr. D. D. Mason Faculty Award
• 2021-2023, Dr. Cavell Brownie Mentoring Faculty Award

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