The ASA announces the selection of candidates for the 2015 election. The winning candidates’ terms will begin in 2016. Make sure to look for your ballots in your email inbox and vote early. Voting begins at midnight EDT on March 13 and ends at 11:59 p.m. PDT on May 1. Complete candidate biographies can be read here.

President-elect

John Eltinge, Bureau of Labor Statistics

The statistical community is encountering extraordinary opportunities and challenges that have arisen from changes in the scope, scale, and nature of available data; increased needs of stakeholders for high-quality statistical information; and related developments in Big Data and data science. As the largest group of statisticians in the world, the ASA plays a critical role in responding to these changes through its mission to promote the practice and profession of statistics.

I feel honored to be nominated as a candidate for president of the ASA. If elected, I would heartily welcome the views of all members about ways in which the ASA can best fulfill its mission.

Based on conversations to date with a wide range of members from academia, government, and the private sector, I believe four areas will fit especially well with the ongoing ASA strategic plan and its dual emphasis on the ASA as the Big Tent for Statistics and increasing the visibility of the profession.

Expand Opportunities for Training and Professional Development. As the program chair for the 2003 Joint Statistical Meetings, in subsequent ASA committee work, and as the advisor for five PhD and 10 MS students, I have observed firsthand the strong contributions the ASA and its partner societies make to the professional development of statisticians, especially in early-career stages. Recently, I have been especially excited to see those efforts expand beyond technical skills to include statistical leadership areas like active listening, communication, and organizational acumen. The ASA should continue to strengthen its work in all of these areas.

Respond Constructively to Changes in Career Paths and Working Environments. Over the past two decades, career paths and working environments have changed for many statisticians. For example, traditional lifetime employment has become less common and organizational structures have become more fluid. In addition, expansions of application areas have led statisticians to work with colleagues who hold diverse views on transparency and intellectual-property issues related to statistical methodology and data. The ASA can help our members thrive amidst this changing environment. For example, we should expand the recent initiative on mentoring, and we should foster greater collaboration across subfields.

ASA sections and chapters can make important contributions in both of these areas. For instance, when president of the Washington Statistical Society, I was constantly impressed by the efforts of members to foster a strong sense of community, to share insights with colleagues, and to ensure that statistical practice met the highest ethical standards.

Continue to Strengthen Communication with the Broader Scientific Community, Media, and General Public. The ASA has made long-standing contributions to communication with the media and general public regarding statistical features of controversies in science, health, and public policy. In addition, the ASA recently has pursued deeper interactions with our peers in other professions (e.g., through Section U of AAAS). The ASA should explore ways in which to do even more in these areas.

Enhance Research and Teaching in Applications and Theory. This statement began with the expanded scope and impact of statistical applications. That phenomenon has arisen from a variety of factors, including high-quality teaching and research by many dedicated statisticians. The ASA should extend previous initiatives on teaching at the pre-college, undergraduate, and graduate levels. Also, in previous work on the Committee on Publications and as an associate editor for four journals, I have developed a sincere appreciation for the ways in which sound editorial processes can deepen and accelerate scientific progress. It will be important for the ASA to continue its strong tradition of research journals in statistical theory and applications in health, economics, engineering, education, public policy, and other areas.

President-elect

Barry Nussbaum, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

As soon as the verdict was announced, I knew becoming a statistician was the best decision I ever made. Judge Finch ordered a major auto manufacturer to recall 208,000 cars for excessive emissions all based on my statistical testimony and my sample of 10 cars. Yes, just 10 cars. It was a moment that illustrated the mind-boggling power of statistics; in this case, a basic statistical sampling plan to affect a cleaner environment. That’s what it’s all about: using statistical methods to improve the quality of life in terms of health care, transportation, security, economy, justice, education, the environment, and much more. This is the reason I would be honored to serve as the American Statistical Association’s 112th president.

My own background is a study in differences, or variances, to statisticians. My parents were refugees—one arriving in New York, the other via Shanghai. My synagogue is located in Washington’s Chinatown. My dissertation advisor was from India. My professors debated frequentist vs. Bayesian. This taught me to value and embrace diversity and the importance of the ASA’s welcoming Big Tent. From this variance, as ASA president, I intend to bring our discipline together, concentrating on the following four major areas:

Engagement. The ASA has broad membership across academic, government, and industry sectors. Membership crosses cultures, ethnicities, age groups, orientations, geographic locations, genders, and applications. Now is the time to be more than the sum of the parts. For several years, I have chaired the ASA Committee on Statistical Partnerships among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG). Leadership of this committee reinforced my conviction in the power of collaboration. We need all these disparate communities to better coordinate their activities. I would proactively initiate specific forums to foster this coordination.

Youth. We have to impress upon our youth that this noble profession is interesting, enlightening, useful, gratifying, and increasingly in demand. Google’s chief economist called statistics the sexy profession for the 21st century. Now there’s a selling point! But I would work actively to engage entities such as the Museum of Mathematics to include statistical displays. Currently, it is the null set in this regard.

Communication. We must improve our communication to nonstatisticians and launch renewed efforts to demystify our field. Not only do we need to be seen and heard, but also understood. This is particularly important in the age of Big Data. It is crucial to express observations, methods, constraints, inferences, and caveats in the clearest possible manner. Big Data are nothing to be afraid of. In fact, they are an opportunity.

My perspective is data are neither good nor bad, but are good or bad for a particular use. In an effort to improve our outreach, I founded EPAs Statistics Users Group, a forum for information exchange not just among statisticians, but among all staff analyzing data. My presidential initiative would include producing training material for the ASA website. A prototype is the successful Breaking Bad Statistics presentation I developed at EPA.

Impact. The ASAs mission statement includes the goal of using our discipline to enhance human welfare. I have had the good fortune to directly affect human health through environmental improvements. For instance, I have seen median blood lead levels of youth dramatically decrease as a result of removing lead from gasoline. That was my project, and the feeling of accomplishment is overwhelming. As a profession, you can join me and together WE can make an impact and enhance human welfare.

To learn more about me, I invite you to go on Twitter and check out @StatisticsBarry for information and upcoming videos. Significantly onward!

Vice President-elect

Nicholas Horton, Amherst College

As the world’s largest community of statisticians, the American Statistical Association plays a key role in the development, application, and dissemination of statistical methods and practice. At a time when data are increasingly used to make decisions, this is a wonderful time to be a statistician. But there are a number of internal and external challenges and opportunities we face as a profession. As a board member, I would work to promote the practice and profession of statistics in the following ways:

• Promote the role of statistics at the core of what is being described as “data science” (and bring data scientists into the Big Tent)
• Work to make statistical careers more attractive and increase the visibility of the discipline in areas of science, government, and business that rely on data
• Prepare statisticians for success by continuing to transform statistical education at the secondary and university levels

I work as an applied biostatistician on a variety of biomedical and behavioral research projects. These experiences have demonstrated the power of statistics to ensure that science is on a solid foundation. Through my work on the ASA Undergraduate Guidelines Group, I saw firsthand the explosive growth of interest and enrollments in statistics. The expansion of our programs provides an opportunity for us to help ensure statisticians are not left behind while other fields stake a claim to data science.

If elected, I would focus my efforts on aspects of visibility of the profession and our ongoing educational efforts. This would include engagement with other disciplines through our policy work, meetings, and publications, along with initiatives to improve the training for the next generation of students. Our graduates need the facility to express statistical computations while answering statistical questions (or to “think with data,” as Diane Lambert has described it). K–12 students need more of a sense of the power and beauty of statistics. Finzer (2013) notes that statistics educators who generally understand data, have substantial expertise in computation, and have developed a variety of data habits of mind are well positioned to advocate for major changes in the training of future data scientists. The ASA is poised to help its members and their institutions, and as a board member I would help move this ambitious agenda forward.

Vice President-elect

Kathy Ensor, Rice University

I am honored to be considered for the position of vice president of the American Statistical Association. I have served the profession and the ASA in many ways over my career and I look forward to bringing this experience to the Board of Directors and to the benefit of ASA members and society at large.

I bring extensive academic experiences in research, teaching, and mentoring, including running a longstanding NSF-funded training program for undergraduates, graduate students, and post-docs. I also bring the experience of helping to found, and then lead for 14 years, the department of statistics at Rice. Rice Statistics has both benefited from and contributed to the ASA community—a tradition I am pleased to see continues with many of our alums.

Statistics at Rice resides in the school of engineering, which puts us side-by-side with leading departments of computer science, applied math, and electrical engineering. The world of data science is drawing heavily from these communities, and statistics holds a key place at the table.

The statistics profession is changing, or broadening, due to the rapid advances in information and computing resources. Data—government and commercial—that was once difficult to access is now readily available across the globe. It is amazing to me that with a few simple commands in R, I can access a wide array of financial data once available only to a small percentage of the world.

Academia is also at the beginning of potentially rapid change through the success of the new model for content delivery of massively open online courses (MOOCs). Many ASA members are leading developers in this educational space. With this changing professional landscape on many fronts, it is important to maintain the forward perspective the ASA has adopted.

The ASA as an umbrella organization encompasses a broad array of statisticians contributing to society through government, academia, industry, and nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). While my primary contributions are through academia, I also have maintained a personal outreach perspective, using my statistical expertise to address broad challenges facing society. This perspective of statistical outreach has taken me into very different communities of business, government, law, and NGOs. It is fascinating the varying degree of statistical thinking underpinning so much of society. The members of the ASA are the driving force behind this success, and the ASA, as an organization, has its finger on this pulse.

It is such an exciting and dynamic time to be a statistician. We are now able to fully capitalize on our strong foundations in the age of Big Data and extensive computational resources. We live and breathe this excitement in our day-to-day lives. In our own way, we each help pass along this enthusiasm to the generation of new statisticians and data scientists.

I look back in amazement at the dynamic changes in the ASA and the profession since the beginning of my career as a statistician in the late ’80s. The ASA has always been a superb organization and professional home for us all. It continues to grow and develop as our profession grows and develops. If elected, I look forward to contributing to this continued success.

COCGB Representative to the Board

Jerry Moreno, John Carroll University

Chapters need to continue to play an integral role in promoting the major ASA themes of the ASA as the Big Tent for Statistics and increasing the visibility of the profession. As a member for more than 50 years, I am wholly dedicated to the ASA.

At the chapter level, I was the Cleveland Chapter representative to the Council of Chapters for many years. As the chapter’s education chair for 30 years, I continue to organize our annual spring conference, which features a prominent statistician who provides necessary professional development for those whose livelihoods depend on using statistics in the workplace. I continue to be involved in our chapter activities for grades K–12, including judging in our regional science fair competition, organizing our local statistics poster competition, giving talks to students about pursuing statistics as a career, and facilitating workshops in statistics for school teachers as they struggle to learn statistical content and pedagogy so to help their students become statistically literate.

At the national level, I was asked by the Section on Statistical Graphics to head their initiative to create the ASA Statistics Poster Competition for students in grades K–12 in 1990. Thousands of students participate today at the local, regional, or national level. Chapters are critical in helping to promote the competition and help students understand what is involved in creating a statistics poster.

A committee that for a total of 12 years I was privileged to have been a member of and served as chair of for two years is the ASA/NCTM Joint Committee on Curriculum in Probability and Statistics for grades K–12. From its inception by Fred Mosteller, this joint committee has produced many excellent projects and publications for statistics education. I was thrilled to have been an author of Guidelines for Assessment and Instruction in Statistics Education (GAISE): A Pre-K–12 Curriculum Framework and a module of investigations for middle-school teachers, Bridging the Gap Between Common Core State Standards and Teaching Statistics. I have been a facilitator since the inception of Meeting Within a Meeting workshops for school teachers, which are held at the JSM meeting sites.

Chapters need to provide professional development for statisticians and those who practice statistics in the workplace. COC has an excellent traveling course program to help chapters in this regard. My own chapter offers a spring conference and fall workshop for colleagues in the profession. We have had joint offerings with ASQ and, more recently, with the local R group.

I know of chapter successes and chapter struggles, as it has become more and more difficult for members to be able to leave their workplace and devote time to their chapter. A challenge for us is to find ways to serve both employer and the ASA.

What would I bring to the board and COCGB? Experience from the past, a willingness to be involved in the present, and a vision for the future. As a longtime member of the ASA who has seen our association through rough and good times and has experienced its growth and importance in increasing the visibility of the profession now in the spirit of the Big Tent, it would be an absolute honor to be the liaison between the Council of Chapters Governing Board and the ASA Board of Directors. I am grateful for the opportunity to be a candidate for this position.

COCGB Representative to the Board

Paula Roberson, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences

I am honored and excited to be a candidate for the Council of Chapters Representative to the ASA Board of Directors. I have been active in the ASA throughout my career and have served in a number of positions, including offices in local chapters and on the Council of Chapters Governing Board, giving me a perspective on the contributions and needs of local chapters with respect to the overall organization.

As the focal point for ASA activities on a local level, the chapters are vital to the association’s mission. Chapters play a critical role in addressing both of the main themes of the ASA strategic plan: i) the role of the association as the Big Tent for Statistics and ii) increasing the visibility of the profession. The chapters provide a center for professional networking, exchange of ideas, and opportunities for career development throughout the year for an often diverse group of statisticians in a geographic region.

Since many statisticians do not participate in the annual Joint Statistical Meetings, chapter activity may be their primary means of identification with the association. The ASA needs to continue to develop new resources and opportunities for welcoming and including these individuals, and the chapters are the most fundamental avenue for this. Furthermore, just as the members are diverse, so are the chapters, spanning a large range of membership size, geographic area, and population density.

The Council of Chapters, with the support of the ASA Board of Directors, provides an organizational infrastructure to support chapter activities, encourage new initiatives, and share experiences and ideas among the chapters. As a member of both the Board of Directors and the Council of Chapters Governing Board, I would take seriously the responsibility to foster communication across all levels to bolster this infrastructure.

Chapters have many opportunities to enhance the visibility of our profession, including interactions with the media, participation in the schools, and development of projects to enhance statistical literacy. We need to help chapters seek more opportunities to engage in these activities and publicize success stories that encourage other chapters to follow suit. I know from my involvement with local chapters and the Council of Chapters Governing Board that there are many creative and effective activities ongoing at local levels. Many of these can be shared and adapted by other chapters and/or expanded to association initiatives.

This is an exciting time for the field of statistics, presenting many opportunities and challenges. If elected, I look forward to working with the Board of Directors and the Council of Chapters Governing Board to enhance and strengthen the capacity of the chapters to move the discipline and the profession forward to an even brighter future.

COSGB Representative to the Board

Eileen King, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center

I welcome the opportunity to serve as the Council of Sections Representative to the ASA Board of Directors and look forward to working together to achieve the strategic initiatives identified by the board as they partner with the sections.

I have more than 20 years of experience as a leader and manager of statistical organizations. This leadership experience has provided many opportunities for strategic planning and developing and executing implementation plans to meet the strategic goals. I have served as chair of the Council of Sections Governing Board and understand that the sections represent the diverse interests and areas of expertise of the ASA membership. As a representative of the Council of Sections on the ASA Board of Directors, I will use my experience in both the industry and academic sector to identify opportunities where the sections can partner with the ASA Board of Directors to achieve the strategic goals set by the ASA leadership. I will facilitate the partnerships by being a channel of communication between the sections and the board.

As an example, attracting and retaining ASA members will lead to increased section membership. Conversely, active sections will provide a research interest home for ASA members and increase the probability that an individual will be retained as an ASA member. The ASA can attract a new member, but membership in vibrant sections will likely be a strong reason as to why that member is retained. A strong partnership between the board and the sections will be needed to identify novel approaches for growing the membership. Similarly, the sections can work closely with the board to identify and implement new approaches to statistical education to attract individuals into the profession.

Throughout my 35-year career as a statistical scientist, I have been fortunate to collaborate with outstanding researchers in many fields and to educate formally and informally. I have had many opportunities to serve our profession, and each one has been a rewarding experience. I look forward to working with the board members to continue to raise awareness of the important contributions statistical scientists make across the multitude of application areas as represented by the Council of Sections.

COSGB Representative to the Board

Katherine T. Halvorsen, Smith College

My goals as a member of the ASA Board of Directors will include supporting the professional development of members through continuing education at meetings and through chapter and section programs, supporting outreach to teachers of statistics in K–12 and in higher education, retaining current ASA members in the future, encouraging new membership growth, and maintaining a supportive working relationship between the Council of Sections and the ASA Board of Directors.

ASA 2015 Election Candidates List

COUNCIL OF CHAPTERS GOVERNING BOARD

Chair-elect
Marianne Messina, Bristol-Myers Squibb
Jeffrey Wilson, Arizona State University
Vice Chair, Region 2, District 3
Anamaria Kazanis, Michigan State University College 
 of Nursing
Gong Tang, University of Pittsburgh
Vice Chair, Region 2, District 4
Nels Grevstad, Metropolitan State University of Denver
Mark Payton, Oklahoma State University

COUNCIL OF SECTIONS GOVERNING BOARD

Chair-elect
Fred Hulting, General Mills, Inc.
Myron Katzoff, Retired
Vice Chair
Sarah Kalicin, Intel Corporation
Eric Vance, LISA (Virginia Tech’s Laboratory for Interdisciplinary Statistical Analysis)

SECTION ON BAYESIAN STATISTICAL SCIENCE

Chair-elect
Purushottam (Prakash) Laud, Medical College of Wisconsin
Sudipto Banerjee, University of California at Los Angeles
Program Chair-elect
Debajyoti Sinha, Florida State University
Tanzy Love, University of Rochester
Publications Officer
Sheng Luo, University of Texas at Houston
Matthew Heaton, Brigham Young University
Council of Sections Representative
Qi Tang, AbbVie
Tamara Broderick, MIT

BIOMETRICS SECTION

Chair-elect
Amy Herring, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Abdus Wahed, University of Pittsburgh
Council of Sections Representative
Timothy Johnson, University of Michigan
Qi Long, Emory University

BIOPHARMACEUTICAL SECTION

Chair-elect
Veronica Taylor, FDA/CVM
Alex Dmitrienko, Quintiles
Program Chair-elect
Jennifer Gauvin, GlaxoSmithKline
Satrajit Roychoudhury, Novartis Oncology
Publications Officer
Ugochi Emeribe, AstraZeneca
Richard Zink, SAS Institute, Inc. and The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Council of Sections Representative
Aparna Raychaudhuri, Shire
Rima Izem, FDA

BUSINESS AND ECONOMIC STATISTICS SECTION

Chair-elect
Ataman Ozyildirim, The Conference Board
Ron Jarmin, U.S. Census Bureau
Program Chair-elect
Kevin Moore, Federal Reserve Board of Governors
Bart Hobijn, Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco

SECTION ON STATISTICAL COMPUTING

Chair-elect
Thomas Lee, University of California, Davis
Kate Calder, The Ohio State University
Program Chair-elect
Eric Laber, North Carolina State University
Christopher Hans, The Ohio State University
Secretary/Treasurer
Radu Craiu, University of Toronto
Genevera Allen, Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital
Council of Sections Representative
Patrick Breheny, University of Iowa
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel, Duke University

SECTION ON STATISTICAL CONSULTING

Chair-elect
Chuck Kincaid, Experis
Nan Hu, University of Utah
Secretary/Treasurer
Hsin-Yi (Cindy) Weng, University of Utah
Ralph Turner, HealthCore
Council of Sections Representative
Bruce Craig, Purdue University
Manisha Desai, Stanford University
Executive Committee At Large
George Luta, Georgetown University
Nagaraj Neerchal, University of Maryland Baltimore County

SECTION ON STATISTICAL EDUCATION

Chair-elect
Paul Roback, St. Olaf College
Nathan Tintle, Dordt College
Secretary/Treasurer
Ann Cannon, Cornell College
Soma Roy, California Polytechnic State University 
San Luis Obispo
Executive Committee At Large
Stephanie Casey, Eastern Michigan University
Ulrike Genschel, Iowa State University
Brenda Gunderson, University of Michigan
Elizabeth Johnson, George Mason University

SECTION ON STATISTICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Chair-elect
Veronica Berrocal, University of Michigan
Paul Patterson, Forest Service, USDA
Program Chair-elect
Elizabeth Mannshardt, North Carolina State University
Zhengyuan Zhu, Iowa State University
Treasurer
Amanda Hering, Colorado School of Mines
Ephraim Hanks, Pennsylvania State University
Publications Chair-elect
Yulia Gel, University of Texas at Dallas
William Christensen, Brigham Young University

SECTION ON STATISTICS IN EPIDEMIOLOGY

Chair-elect
Susan Shortreed, Group Health Research Institute and 
University of Washington
Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania
Program Chair-elect
Scarlett Bellamy, University of Pennsylvania
Jason Brinkley, East Carolina University
Secretary/Treasurer
Yueh-Yun Chi, University of Florida
Jennifer Sinnott, Harvard University
Publications Officer
Kathleen Jablonski, The George Washington University
Claudio Fuentes, Oregon State University

SECTION ON GOVERNMENT STATISTICS

Chair-elect
Amy O’Hara, U.S. Census Bureau
Julie Parker, Bureau of Transportation Statistics
Program Chair-elect
Michael Hawes, U.S. Department of Education
Andrew Keller, U.S. Census Bureau
Council of Sections Representative
Katherine Thompson, U.S. Census Bureau
John Dixon, Bureau of Labor Statistics

SECTION ON STATISTICAL GRAPHICS

Chair-elect
Michael Friendly, York University
George Michailidis, University of Michigan
Program Chair-elect
Kenny Shirley, AT&T Labs
Todd Ogden, Columbia University and New York State Psychiatric Institute
Publications Officer
Md. Mahbubul Majumder, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Leanna House, Virginia Tech
Council of Sections Representative
Weijie Cai, SAS Institute, Inc.
Sarah Hardy, University of Maine at Farmington

HEALTH POLICY STATISTICS SECTION

Chair-elect
Carolyn Rutter, RAND Corporation
Laura Lee Johnson, FDA

STATISTICS IN MARKETING SECTION

Chair-elect
Young-Hoon Park, Cornell University
Qing Liu, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Program Chair-elect
Jeffrey Dotson, Brigham Young University
Sandeep Conoor, In4mation Insights
Secretary/Treasurer
Olivia Lau, Google
Zainab Jamal, Hewlett Packard

SECTION ON PHYSICAL AND ENGINEERING SCIENCES

Chair-elect
Allison Rajakumar, The Lubrizol Corporation and Ursuline College
James Wendelberger, Los Alamos National Laboratory and Urban Science Applications, Inc.
Program Chair-elect
Byran Smucker, Miami University
Yili Hong, Virginia Tech
Secretary/Treasurer
Rick Lewis, GlaxoSmithKline
Matthew Pratola, The Ohio State University
Council of Sections Representative
Joanne Wendelberger, Los Alamos National Laboratory
William Notz, The Ohio State University

QUALITY AND PRODUCTIVITY SECTION

Chair-elect
Alix Robertson, Sandia National Laboratories
Ming Li, REANCON.com, Wal-Mart Store, Inc.
Program Chair-elect
Anne Hansen, Intel Corporation
Hon Keung Tony Ng, Southern Methodist University
Abdel-Salam (ABDO) Abdel-Salam, Qatar University
Council of Sections Representative
Harold Dyck, California State University San Bernardino
Sharad Prabhu, SAS Institute, Inc.

RISK ANALYSIS SECTION

Chair-elect
Matthew Wheeler, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health
Ugur Tuncay Alparslan, American University
Program Chair-elect
Yishi Wang, The University of North Carolina at Wilmington
Zhongyi Yuan, The Pennsylvania State University
Secretary/Treasurer
Mike Pennell, The Ohio State University
Johanna Xi, Bank of America
Publications Officer
Beom Seuk Hwang, NIH/NICHD
Mary Louie, Insurance Services Office and Verisk Analytics

SOCIAL STATISTICS SECTION

Chair-elect
Jennifer Day, U.S. Census Bureau
Tim Liao, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Program Chair-elect
Melissa Scopilliti, U.S. Census Bureau
Cynthia Buckley, University of Illinois
Secretary/Treasurer
Matthew Brault, Harvard Medical School
Margaret Kelley, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Council of Sections Representative
Rebecca Chenevert, U.S. Census Bureau
Brian Harris-Kojetin, U.S. Office of Management and Budget

STATISTICS IN SPORTS SECTION

Chair-elect
Steven Rigdon, Saint Louis University
Aaron Baggett, University of Mary Hardin-Baylor
Program Chair-elect
Stephanie Kovalchik, RAND Corporation
Andrew Swift, University of Nebraska at Omaha
Justin Post, North Carolina State University
Douglas Noe, Miami University

SURVEY RESEARCH METHODS SECTION

Chair-elect
Matthias Schonlau, University of Waterloo
Elaine Zanutto, Naxion Research and Consulting
Program Chair-elect
Donsig Jang, Mathematica Policy Research
Tom Krenzke, Westat
Asaph Young Chun, U.S. Census Bureau
Secretary
Rachel A. Caspar, RTI International
Wendy Van de Kerckhove, Westat
Qixuan Chen, Columbia University
Council of Sections Representative
Darryl Creel, RTI International
Yajuan Si, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Julia Soulakova, University of Nebraksa Lincoln
William Cecere, Westat

TEACHING OF STATISTICS IN THE HEALTH 
SCIENCES SECTION

Chair-elect
Jose-Miguel Yamal, University of Texas
Ann Brearley, University of Minnesota
Council of Sections Representative
Carol Bigelow, University of Massachusetts-Amherst
Steve Grambow, Duke University

SECTION ON NONPARAMETRIC STATISTICS

Chair-elect
Xuming He, University of Michigan
Helen Hao Zhang, University of Arizona
Program Chair-elect
Sonja Greven, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Fang Yao, University of Toronto
Treasurer
Dalma Senturk, University of California at Los Angeles
Ying Wei, Columbia University
Council of Sections Representative
Wolfgang Polonik, University of California, Davis
John Staudenmayer, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

STATISTICS IN DEFENSE AND NATIONAL
SECURITY SECTION

Chair-elect
Laura Freeman, Institute for Defense Analysis
James Wendelberger, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Program Chair-elect
Justin Newcomer, Sandia National Laboratories
Jane Pinelis, Center for Naval Analysis
Shuguang Song, The Boeing Company
Council of Sections Representative
Gentry White, The University of Queensland
Alyson Wilson, North Carolina State University

SECTION FOR STATISTICAL PROGRAMMERS 
AND ANALYSTS

Chair-elect
Michael Carniello, Astellas Pharma
Abdel-Salam (ABDO) Abdel-Salam, Qatar University
Program Chair-elect
Bala Dhungana, Eli Lilly and Company
Michael Messner, EPA
Secretary
Dominique Williams, Eli Lilly and Company
Wei Qian, Takeda
Treasurer
Nakisha Boulware Reid, Novant Health, Inc.
Dane Korver, Pearson
Publications Officer
Mark Matthews, GCE Solutions
Jagannath Ghosh, Novartis Pharmaceutical
Council of Sections Representative
Ram Kafle, Sam Houston State University
Hsiu-Yung Cindy Wilson, Eli Lilly and Company

STATISTICAL LEARNING AND DATA MINING SECTION

Chair-elect
Annie Qu, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Xiaodong Lin, Rutgers
Program Chair-elect
Genevera Allen, Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital
Adam Rothman, University of Minnesota
Council of Sections Representative
Eric Laber, North Carolina State University
Karl Rohe, University of Wisconsin, Madison

SECTION ON STATISTICS IN IMAGING

Chair-elect
Martin Lindquist, Johns Hopkins University
Thomas Nichols, University of Warwick
Hernando Ombao, University of California, Irvine
Program Chair-elect
Chunming Zhang, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Ying Guo, Emory University
Peng Huang, Johns Hopkins University

SECTION ON MENTAL HEALTH STATISTICS

Chair-elect
Ofer Harel, University of Connecticut
Elizabeth Stuart, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School
 of Public Health
Yuanjia Wang, Columbia University
Program Chair-elect
Huaihou Chen, University of Florida
Warren Comulada, University of California at Los Angeles
Hua He, University of Rochester
Booil Jo, Stanford University School of Medicine
Knashawn Morales, University of Pennsylvania
Council of Sections Representative
Samiran Ghosh, Wayne State University School of Medicine
Wesley Thompson, University of California at San Diego

MEDICAL DEVICES AND DIAGNOSTICS SECTION

Chair-elect
Jason Connor, Berry Consultants, University of Central Florida College of Medicine, Johns Hopkins University School of Public Health
Theodore Lystig, Medtronic and University of Minnesota
Program Chair-elect
Zhiheng Xu, FDA
Norberto Pantoja-Galicia, FDA, CDRH