2018 ASA Board of Directors Candidates
Running for President-Elect
David L. Banks
Professor of the Practice, Department of Statistical Science, Duke University
I have been fortunate to have had a checkered career. It has exposed me to a wide range of statistical activity, mostly at universities and federal agencies. But my first job out of college was doing statistical analyses for a government contractor, which is how I learned what I wanted to be.
From graduate school forward, the ASA has been a presence in my professional life. I joined in 1980, attended my first Joint Statistical Meetings in 1982, and am happy to have been at every JSM since Philadelphia in 1984. The ASA is my community, and the friendships I have found within it have enriched my life.
The American Statistical Association is 177 years old. It is a social machine built by generations of statisticians to achieve two purposes: to advance our profession and to advance our careers. In terms of the first goal, the ASA has had many successes—it has distinguished statisticians from mathematicians, enabled and empowered the federal statistical agencies, and brought statistical thinking into the high-school curriculum.
But challenges change. I believe the hurdles ahead are to ensure that public policy is based upon data, rather than politics, that we strategically redefine our relationship with the emerging data science community, and that we help the general citizenship to see us as somewhat cooler and a bit more trustworthy then they presently do.
In terms of the second goal, the ASA has been strikingly successful in fostering careers. Compared to many other fields, we are, on median, well compensated and enjoy high levels of job satisfaction. But we need to do more to raise the floor. And, since careers at different stages use the ASA’s assets in different ways, we need to clue in junior colleagues on how the ASA can help leverage professional growth.
One of the joys of our profession is that, compared to other sciences, we are relatively diverse in gender and employment (besides academics and industry, we are prominent in government). We must work to build that out more. If elected as ASA president, I would use the office to further our field and to help others advance.
Statistics has pivoted from mathematics toward applications (we are a big tent, and there will always be need for deep theory, but our world is bigger than that). We must provide capacity to support that change. For example, I believe MS and PhD students (and everyone else) should have easier opportunities to learn the modern heavy-lifting Big Data programming languages, such as Spark. The ASA can help that happen. Also, I believe that our publication system no longer efficiently serves our science—I have an extended rant on this that appeared in Amstat News #424—and I shall urge the ASA to modernize.
Those who know me know that I would be an active president. The office is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to work with some of the best people on the planet to make our profession stronger. I could never waste that “chance.”
Karen Kafadar
Chair and Commonwealth Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Virginia
“… [A]s new discoveries are made, new truths discovered, and manners and opinions change, with the change of circumstances, institutions must advance also to keep pace with the times.” ~ Thomas Jefferson
I am pleased to run for ASA president at a time when our strategic plan goals—enhancing diversity and breadth of our association, increasing visibility of our profession, and ensuring our future—are as urgent as they have ever been. But the “circumstances” that drive our goals have changed: We face complex challenges and we “must advance also to keep pace with the times.”
Challenges
Our profession faces threats in many fields (data science, psychology, economics, bioinformatics) whose training may include casual brushes with statistics. This has created populations of self-proclaimed statisticians who can sideline us in critical research areas unless we actively change our approach to statistical education and our response to society’s needs to be more relevant to today’s demand for solutions to complex multifaceted problems.
Complex problems—such as detecting emerging epidemics, ensuring food safety, protecting our communications, and establishing reliable standards—cannot be solved by single individuals. More urgently, we need to anticipate these needs before others capitalize on our delay and develop attractive, but flawed, approaches. These challenges require diverse talents that include domain scientists and the best statistical solutions from statisticians whom we attract to our field and prepare to face big problems.
The ASA must create ways to forecast these tsunamis of change, identify our present and future statisticians to address them, and assist our members in developing data-based solutions that require our statistical expertise.
Teams for Complex Problems
These challenges present opportunities to promote our profession and to grow our field, both in numbers of statisticians and in the nature and quality of research solutions that define us. In my experience, statisticians have been critical components of teams that address problems in academe, industry (HP), and government (NIST, NCI). All too often, this involvement arises by serendipity. Two examples are the 2009 NAS [National Academies of Science] report on forensic science and the IPCC [Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change] climate change reports; on both, the ASA reinforced statisticians’ roles by keeping the topics on congressional and media radar screens. We need to develop further mechanisms to both forecast areas of change and respond to them while we continue to build on our past successes.
Engaging Our Sections and Chapters
We can start by mobilizing the talent in our sections and chapters. In education, many ASA chapters have active connections with their local schools and universities. Our future ASA members will come from diverse populations only if they can identify with those they see today. The [ASA] Board and I can work with ASA chapters to support good role models on their outreach visits to local colleges, elementary [schools], and high schools. Next, experts in sections’ disciplines such as the sciences, health care, and computing can easily identify critical problems within their domains. The ASA can mobilize teams to match these problems with scientific and statistical expertise and initiate mechanisms to tackle them.
The Next Statistical Frontiers
The age of self-contained problems solved by analyzing a few data sets is rapidly being replaced by global challenges that span multiple disciplines whose diverse data demand a myriad of methodological approaches. We must design mechanisms so our engagement on important complex problems is more likely and timely than mere serendipity, and then deliver results. I am honored by the opportunity to serve the ASA as president, and will work with the diversity of expertise and talent in our association to develop ways to better enable us to identify, mobilize, support, and encourage our members to work on important problems and, in so doing, learn from all of you as well.
Running for Vice President
Lorraine Denby
Principal, Murray Hill Data Science
My history within the ASA has been that, when elected to an office, I have created initiatives that make a lasting mark on our profession, raised the funds as needed, and carried them out to fruition. Some of these initiatives are still in place today. I would be grateful to have this opportunity again as your vice president.
For example, you may not know the history of Amstat.org. As representative to the Council of Sections in the mid-90s, I decided that it was time for the ASA to have a web presence. I approached the board and got its approval, but no financial assistance. I then approached each section for a donation toward the project, raised over $30k, formed the committee, and voila! Amstat.org was born. By the way, our first URL choice (asa.org) was already taken. Many kudos to my great committee as I did not have the talents to do this on my own. Our design and initial server stayed in place for many years.
As chair of the Graphics Section, I initiated the student poster competition where elementary and high-school students pose a question of interest, collect and analyze the related data, and display the results in a poster. I got the idea by attending an ISI conference in Tokyo. Such a contest was in place in Japan, where over 10k students submitted entries. The winning posters were displayed at JSM. I arranged an opening reception and invited the ambassador from Japan to attend. We were honored by the vice ambassador. The most recent poster winners were featured in August 2016 Amstat News.
The first ASA Data Expo presented a data set for members to analyze and display their results in a poster session at JSM. It was an artificial data set that, when projected the right way, displayed the word eureka. I decided that it would be a more meaningful exercise if we used real data. Thus, for the next several years, I chaired the Data Expo and obtained real data to be analyzed: crab fishery data from Alaska Fish and Wildlife, places rated data from the Places Rated Almanac, and baseball salary data. I even arranged for crab legs to be donated from Alaska and put on a crab dinner for those who participated. The Data Expo continued for 30 years, until 2013, and featured the analysis of real data.
But, these are examples from the past. What would I like to do in the future?
Increase public and business awareness of statistics. Anyone who has a computer with some number crunching software feels that he/she can analyze data properly. My daughter worked at a business intelligence company. When she tried to convince them to hire someone with training in statistics, they felt there was no need for that since she could fill that bill with her two statistics courses in college. Yet, their business was based on the analysis of Big Data sets and advising clients about important business decisions based on this analysis. This situation is all too common. We need to develop a program to educate businesses about the need for trained statisticians and the benefits they could reap by hiring them.
Sustainability of our society. Of the 7,000 JSM participants last year, about 1,500 were students. But, do the students continue to join the ASA upon reaching the business world? For the most part, not a large enough percentage does. We need to develop programs that will interest students in continuing their membership and becoming active members of our society. We can run focus groups for students at JSM. Doing so will give us ideas to implement so the ASA will better meet their needs. I will also work with our chapters to encourage and support them in sponsoring local meetups, targeting JSM first-timers or potential members.
Webinars are a popular vehicle these days for conducting meetings and training. We could add more of them to our offerings. Be assured that, if elected, I will initiate one or more programs that will have lasting value to our society and profession. I hope you will provide me that opportunity.
Katherine Monti
Retired from Rho, Inc.
I am indeed honored to be considered to be a vice president of the ASA. The field of statistics has come a long way since I joined the ASA in 1975 (two years before John Tukey formally introduced box and whisker plots in his Exploratory Data Analysis). The association has come a long way, too. Neither statistics nor the ASA will stop changing, and that’s a good thing.
The ASA is always changing as the membership grows. But the association not only needs new statisticians, the world needs more statisticians. Encouraging students to become statisticians has been a continuing goal for many of us. To this end, I have enjoyed giving talks at career nights, hosting career-oriented roundtables, and contributing to the Amstat News career-oriented series (A Day in the Life of a Statistician and STATtr@k).
The Biopharmaceutical Section’s pharmaceutical statisticians video has demonstrated that outreach efforts really work to attract young folks to the field. Reaching out works! But we have to keep finding new and engaging ways to encourage students to play in all corners of our diverse professional sandbox, or to at least let them know about statistics, because even those who choose other careers need to know at least some statistics!
Encouraging the appropriate application of statistics is another crucial challenge. I have seen a legal case partially derailed by a PhD nonstatistician with his own way of thinking about data, an MD nonstatistician achieve significance in a clinical trial by treating the three-month data and the six-month data on the same patients as independent results, and, well, we all have our horror stories. Even daily news reports can give us pause: Did that study in the headlines control for the covariates that bias the results if not taken into account? All too frequently, the answer is no.
As our Big Tent for Statistics grows even wider, we need to work on “Big Education” and “Big Communication” regarding the principles of design, the methods of analysis, and the ethical and valid interpretation of results. What types of programs increase our numbers and expand the appropriate use of statistics in applications?
Many academic programs now incorporate supervised consulting experience into interdisciplinary consulting labs, some of which contribute to training of statisticians in developing countries. The ASA has backed pro bono efforts such as the student-run StatCom (Statistics in the Community) and the outreach group Statistics without Borders. The newly instituted ThisIsStatistics campaign uses social media to encourage the exploration of statistics, and expanding the use of podcasts is one of the strategic initiatives of 2017 ASA President Barry Nussbaum. All of these efforts demonstrate our commitment to encouraging interest in the field and in the sound use of statistics. Tweets, podcasts, Facebook, Pinterest, K–12 online resources—the association is evolving with the times and will necessarily continue to do so. The ASA has a lot to tackle as it continues to evolve, so a broad perspective is valuable.
The job portion of my (very rewarding) career has taken me from academia to non-pharma industry to devices to pharmaceuticals (at a sponsor and then at a CRO), with some additional consulting along the way. The equally rewarding service portion of my career includes diverse leadership roles in ASA chapters, committees, sections, and the board. If elected, I look forward to bringing all these perspectives to serve the ASA as it moves forward. Member input is always highly valued, so please share your ideas with any of those serving on the ASA Board. Remember: Voting in the ASA election is an important form of input!
Running for COSGB Representative to the Board
John L. Czajka
Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research, Inc.
I would be honored to serve as one of the Council of Section’s representatives to the board of directors. As a recent chair of the Council of Sections, an earlier vice chair, and a former officer in three sections, I believe that I am well prepared to represent the sections on the ASA Board of Directors.
Under the first of three themes, “Fulfilling Our Role as ‘The Big Tent for Statistics,’” the ASA’s Strategic Plan observes that a strength of the association is its mix of members from education, business and industry, and government. Students have provided the largest source of growth in ASA membership for a number of years, but retention of student members once they complete their degrees has been low. Retaining members who leave academia may pose the greatest challenge, but is critical to maintaining the diversity of our membership and achieving other goals of the association. One of my priorities as a member of the board of directors would be to expand the ASA’s efforts to retain those former student members who have begun careers in business and industry and government. This must go hand-in-hand with continuing to support our strong academic membership.
Under the second theme of “Increasing the Visibility of the Profession,” I strongly support the ASA’s efforts to “promote the value of sound statistical practice” in policymaking. The importance of increasing the visibility of our association and profession will undoubtedly grow in the next few years. I commend the ASA for its initiatives in this area, which include the preparation of white papers, advocacy in support of the federal statistical system and major research budgets, the release of policy statements, and the development of resources for policymakers. As a participant in the public policy arena professionally, I would work as a board member to enhance these activities.
As one who has been active in sections from early on, I am puzzled that fewer than half of the ASA’s members belong to sections. We need to understand why this is so and whether greater participation in sections is a goal that the ASA should pursue. For starters, I would work with the ASA to determine how we could enhance our membership data to enable us to better address fundamental questions about participation in sections. For example, how many of those who do not belong to sections once did so—and for how long? More effectively serving our membership may very well involve an expanded role for the sections.
The ASA has been a keystone of my professional life for more than 30 years. I would welcome the opportunity to share my extensive experience by serving on the association’s board of directors.
Katherine Halvorsen
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Smith College
My primary concern for our profession is that we continue to promote awareness of the essential importance of statistics in natural and social science research, as well as in the public sphere, including government, industry, and education. The ASA’s strategic plan addresses my concern through its emphasis on membership growth in both numbers and diversity and on education from kindergarten through 12th grade, through post-graduate continuing education, and through outreach to special groups such as journalists and Capitol Hill staff. I strongly support the ASA’s work on the undergraduate curriculum, the statistical education of teachers, and outreach to K–12 teachers through Meeting Within a Meeting.
Having served as chair of the Council of Sections, I have worked with groups applying to become new sections, as well as with the established sections, all of whom are concerned about having opportunities for their members to present invited sessions, panels, posters, and short courses at JSM. The proliferation of new sections fits neatly into the ASA’s goal of being “The Big Tent for Statistics,” encouraging a broadening and diversification of membership, but becomes unwieldy when we have to find opportunities for these groups to present at JSM. We need to find additional opportunities for members to present their work and network with others who share their interests. This might come through new specialized conferences (such as the Conference on Statistical Practice or Women in Statistics and Data Science), journals, webinars, or even newsletters. I would like to work with the board of directors to address these issues.
I would be honored to serve as one of the Council of Section’s representatives to the ASA Board of Directors. I have been a member of the association since the 1980s and have served as chair and vice-chair of both the Council of Sections and the Advisory Committee on Continuing Education. I currently serve on the Leadership Support Council.
Running for COCGB Representative to the Board
Donsig Jang
Vice President and Director, Center for Excellence in Survey Research, NORC at the University of Chicago
If elected to serve as a Council of Chapters representative to the board, I will work with other board members to support ASA to have a strategic plan (Enhancing the Diversity and Breadth of Our Association) well implemented. I strongly believe that this data-driven world brings us statisticians an exciting opportunity to bring our value to help improve every part of our lives. But it won’t happen without efforts.
As an applied statistician working in an environment with subject-matter researchers who are often highly quantitative, I strongly feel that real value statisticians should be able to bring to is not just statistical method, but statistical lens to solve problems. It requires understanding of fields we are working on, communications skills to converse with clients and collaborators in the field, and proactive leaderships to work together with team members.
I often made a joke that statistical value for a given project is not defined by a statistician, but by a project director or subject-matter expert. It’s largely true to many statisticians almost everywhere. I hope that the ASA provides necessary supports to members to help them have a right mindset as a statistician.
Another area I would like to work with other board members in is to help broaden statistics to embrace machine learning and other computation disciplines. In this Big Data era, it is our obligation to have statistical principles continue to be relevant in extracting right information from messy data. It needs an effort to have statistical methods bridged with computer science perspectives. I hope that the ASA will become a professional home for data scientists in coming years.
Last, ASA members have become diversified in many different ways in recent years. But there are many professionals who were trained in statistics or similar quantitative disciplines, but are not ASA members. I will work with the ASA Board to have ASA outreach to them, particularly those who are in nonacademic fields.
In closing, it is an honor and privilege to get nominated as a candidate for COCGB. I will continue to support ASA strategic plan and serve for whatever capacity I am allowed, regardless of this election outcome.
Alexander Cambon
Mathematical Statistician, U.S. Food and Drug Administration
“A strength of the ASA is the mix of members from business/industry, government, and education …” (From Theme 1, ASA Strategic Plan). It has been my good fortune to work in all three of these categories due to my involvement in the ASA.
In 1996, when I joined the ASA, I was a statistician teaching and implementing statistical process control, experiment design, and reliability testing in an industrial/manufacturing setting. ASA meetings and JSM increased my awareness of the growing field of biostatistics and clinical trials. I eventually became a biostatistician at the University of Louisville (U of L) Statistical Consulting Center. My connections in the ASA Kentucky Chapter played a vital role in facilitating this career opportunity. I went to meetings because I enjoyed the talks, and I enjoyed getting to know statisticians and their different areas of work. This type of informal setting can be an important part of networking and career building.
Many of us can probably think of ways ASA involvement has influenced/enhanced our careers. The membership fee is definitely a high-return investment. In telling our stories, let’s get the word out to “make the value of long-term membership evident to all groups that are well represented or ought to be well represented among ASA membership.” Strategies in the plan include expanding “our market research capabilities to provide more and better data about the needs and interests of members and potential members.”
Diversity has been a key part of my life. My father was an immigrant from Italy, where I lived when I was very young. After college, I served as a water resource and health development engineer in a small village in Burkina Faso, West Africa, for 2.5 years. Later, work took me overseas to teach short courses in reliability engineering. I then went to a Chinese school in Louisville to attain an intermediate speaking level in Chinese. The University of Louisville was a very diverse environment and I had many opportunities to practice Chinese on the bus or at work.
As part of my role as a biostatistician at U of L, I often organized local ASA chapter meetings, scheduled speakers, and attended JSM to present topics and attend ASA meetings as a chapter representative. In 2010, with help from members of the Cincinnati and Kentucky chapters, I organized a joint traveling course for the Kentucky and Cincinnati chapters. Joint meetings such as this were very popular and provided additional opportunities to connect. Afterward, I served as District 2 vice chair, Council of Chapters Governing Board. In this capacity, I endeavored to help the chapters that were more isolated by utilizing resources from ASA headquarters, as well as resources from/connections with other chapters.
The strength of local chapters and JSM also enhances the ASA’s ability to invest in and support another theme in the strategic plan: “Increasing the Visibility of Our Profession.” In today’s climate more than ever, our profession has vital input into increasingly complex areas of data science and analytics. Tools such as Stats.org and ThisIsStatistics.org are two of many ways the ASA is using to elevate public awareness.
I am honored to be a candidate for the COCGB representative to the ASA Board of Directors. If elected, I will be an advocate for local chapters through my membership in the Council of Chapters and the COCGB. I will work to see that appropriate parts of the strategic plan (examples are highlighted above) are implemented to “make the value of long-term membership evident to all groups that are well represented or ought to be well represented among ASA membership.”
Running for Publications Representative to the Board
Scott Evans
Senior Research Scientist, Center for Biostatistics in AIDS Research/Department of Biostatistics, Harvard University
It is an exciting and important time for statistics and the ASA. Rapidly evolving access to data and advances in science and technologies create many challenges. But these challenges are also unprecedented opportunities to advance science, education, and policy through discoveries that can change the world to better serve society.
Statistics is a common denominator for much of science. We must strengthen our relationships and communications with data experts in other disciplines and the broader scientific community, media, and public. We must evolve with the data science and Big Data revolutions, promoting statistics at the core of these progressions.
The need for statistical expertise and leadership has never been greater. The ASA plays an indispensable leadership role as the preeminent professional association for statistics. The ASA’s Strategic Plan outlines three foundational themes. The first is enhancing ASA diversity and strength through membership, professional development, and publications. The ASA has more than 19,000 members with increasing student and senior memberships. Effort is needed to attract regular members.
ASA publications have prestigious worldwide reputations and are a major asset to the profession and the ASA. But publications face modern challenges: transition to electronic/open access introducing financial viability issues with reduced individual subscriptions; an irreproducibility pandemic where statistics is often the scapegoat; journal proliferation threatening quality and citation rates; and slow review processes. The ASA must proactively address these issues. It is a time of great change and promise for publications. The ASA can modernize processes to maintain publication quality, utility, and relevancy with continued transitioning to electronic/open distribution while responsibly addressing the implications. New publication/peer-review models (e.g., living/collaborative documents) that exploit technology to increase access and improve functionality (e.g., rapid reviews) are emerging and can be evaluated. The ASA and social media can engage members in the process. The ASA must seek balance, providing a vibrant journal portfolio that serves the diverse needs of ASA members while protecting against journal proliferation to ensure quality and impact. ASA publications also have the opportunity and responsibility to provide leadership and infrastructure for scientific issue positioning (e.g., ASA’s statement on statistical significance and p-values).
A second theme is ensuring the future of our profession through education, leadership development, and sound fiscal strategy. It is critical that the ASA help lead the transformation of statistics education and teaching in the K–12 and college levels to improve the statistical literacy of society. We must also improve training of our future generations of statisticians, focusing not only on fundamentals, but also on leadership, supporting intangible skills, and creative thinking (i.e., thinking first and then researching and executing). Learning statistics is one thing, but learning to be a statistician is another.
The final theme is increasing the visibility and appreciation of our profession through public awareness, impact on policy, and contributions to interdisciplinary collaborations. The statistical ambassadors program that trains statisticians to communicate with the media plays a crucial role. Expanding our role and impact in science policy is paramount. The ASA now provides leadership and an infrastructure for impacting areas such as climate change and forensics. While interaction with other disciplines is natural for statisticians, we must better communicate with collaborators, engaging as thought leaders in addition to technical roles. The perception of statisticians as calculators, service providers, and data warehouses must evolve to innovative strategists and problem solvers that turn information into knowledge to improve decision making.
Richard Levine
Professor of Statistics, San Diego State University Department of Mathematics and Statistics
Over the past 20 years, we have been confronted by a seemingly continuous attempt to rebrand our profession. The buzzwords of metrics (e.g., biometrics, chemometrics, and environmetrics), data mining, informatics, analytics, and now data science hit the scientific community, if not mainstream media, as we grapple with the deluge and complexity of data generated in this information age. The ASA leadership and board of directors have positioned our profession to be at the center of this movement. Recent developments that exemplify these directions include the ThisIsStatistics public relations campaign, data science–oriented curricula guidelines in K–12 and undergraduate statistics programs, PStat and GStat accreditations, and the p-value statement on good statistical practice. The board, and particularly new directors, must stay on top of, and more importantly ahead of, these data science trends.
At the heart of the data science evolution are digital technologies that have and will provide awesome new opportunities for ASA publications. These challenges present themselves through dynamic scholarly communication systems: peer review models with quicker turnarounds; open access portals with article/blog feedback and review mechanisms; and reproducible research via seamless dissemination of data, code, and methods. The board will be challenged to meet the diverse statistical needs of our readership and the public broadly while maintaining our reputation for scientific excellence and publications of the highest quality.
I would be honored and excited to continue my service to the statistics profession as a member of the ASA Board of Directors. I believe my experience and expertise ideally situates me to represent our publications on the board and collaborate with our membership to shape our initiatives and place statistics as the leader of the data science crusade.
ASA Election Candidates List
COCGB (Council of Chapters Governing Board)
Chair-Elect
Isaac Nuamah
Johnson & Johnson Pharmaceutical R&D
Andrew Reilly
Retired
Vice-Chair, Region 1, District 1
Lynn Sleeper
Boston Children Hospital and Harvard Medical School
Ofer Harel
University of Connecticut
Vice-Chair, Region 1, District 2
Chandan Saha
Indiana University School of Medicine
David Fardo
University of Kentucky College of Public Health
COSGB (Council of Sections Governing Board)
Chair-Elect
Natalie Rotelli
Eli Lilly and Company
Marlene Egger
University of Utah Department of Family and Preventive Medicine
Vice-Chair
Stephine Keeton
Pharmaceutical Product Development, Inc.
Philip Scinto
The Lubrizol Corporation
Bayesian Statistical Sciences Section
Chair-Elect
Steven MacEachern
The Ohio State University
Susan Paddock
RAND Corporation
Program Chair-Elect
Robert B. Gramacy
Virginia Tech
Christopher Hans
The Ohio State University
Publication Officer
Anirban Battacharya
Texas A&M University
Xinyi Xu
The Ohio State University
Biometrics Section
Chair-Elect
Sheng Luo
The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Candidate withdrew
Council of Sections Representative
Dipankar Bandyopadhyay
Virginia Commonwealth University
Jay Bartroff
University of Southern California
Biopharmaceutical Section
Chair-Elect
Xiaohui (Ed) Luo
PTC Therapeutics
Richard C. Zink
SAS Institute
Program Chair-Elect
Margaret Gamalo-Siebers
Eli Lilly and Company
Judy Li
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Secretary
Ugochi Emeribe
AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals
Janelle K. Charles
U.S. Food and Drug Administration
Council of Sections Representative
Jennifer Gauvin
Novartis Pharmaceutical Corporation
Brian Millen
Eli Lilly and Company
Business and Economic Statistics Section
Chair-Elect
Peter Zadrozny
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Erika McEntarfer
U.S. Census Bureau
Program Chair-Elect
Marina Gindelsky
Bureau of Economic Analysis
Mariana Saenz
Georgia Southern University
Government Statistics Section
Chair-Elect
Michael Messner
Environmental Protection Agency
Elizabeth Mannshardt
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Program Chair-Elect
Jeffrey Gonzalez
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Jonathan Lyle Auerbach
Columbia University
Health Policy Statistics Section
Chair-Elect
Ofer Harel
University of Connecticut
Ruth Etzioni
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Medical Devices and Diagnostics Section
Chair-Elect
Zhen Zhang
Abbott Vascular
Beimar Iriarte
Abbott Laboratories
Program Chair-Elect
Gerry Gray
Data-Fi, LLC
Martin Ho
Center for Devices and Radiological Health
Mental Health Statistics Section
Chair-Elect
Booil Jo
Stanford University School of Medicine
Satesh Iyengar
University of Pittsburgh
Program Chair-Elect
Dulal Bhaumik
University of Illinois at Chicago
Ramzi Nahhas
Wright State University
Nonparametric Statistics Section
Chair-Elect
Piotr Fryzlewicz
London School of Economics
Dimitris Politis
University of California, San Diego
Program Chair-Elect
Richard Samworth
University of Cambridge
Bing Li
Penn State University
Treasurer
Limin Peng
Emory University
Yoonkyung Lee
The Ohio State University
Publications Officer
Naveen Naidu Narisetty
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Po-Ling Loh
University of Wisconsin at Madison
Quality and Productivity Section
Chair-Elect
Brian P. Weaver
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Peng Liu
JMP Division, SAS Institute
Program Chair-Elect
Abdel-Salam Gomaa
Qatar University
Shan Ba
Procter & Gamble
Physical and Engineering Sciences Section
Chair-Elect
Byran J. Smucker
Miami University
Ananda Sen
University of Michigan
Program Chair-Elect
Xinwei Deng
Virginia Tech
Brad Evans
Pfizer, Inc.
Secretary/Treasurer
Jennifer Kensler
Shell International Exploration and Production
Matthew T. Pratola
The Ohio State University
Risk Analysis Section
Chair-Elect
Jing Zhang
Miami University
Susan Simmons
North Carolina State University
Program Chair-Elect
Aric LaBarr
North Carolina State University
Jiwei Zhao
SUNY at Buffalo
Secretary/Treasurer
Piaomu Liu
Bentley University
Christopher Sroka
New Mexico State University
Publications Officer
Lingling An
The University of Arizona
Maria Barouti
American University
Council of Sections Representative
Alexandra Kapatou
American University
Edsel Pena
University of South Carolina
Social Statistics Section
Chair-Elect
Tim Liao
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Trudi Renwick
U.S. Census Bureau
Eileen O’Brien
U.S. Energy Information Administration
Program Chair-Elect
Stephanie Ewert
U.S. Census Bureau
Candidate withdrew
Secretary/Treasurer
Yulei He
National Center for Health Statistics
Stephanie Eckman
RTI International
Jiashen You
Department of Homeland Security and The George Washington University
Statistical Computing Section
Chair-Elect
Wendy Martinez
Bureau of Labor Statistics
David Hunter
Penn State University
Program Chair-Elect
Usha Govindarajulu
SUNY Downstate Medical Center
Sebastian Kurtek
The Ohio State University
Secretary/Treasurer
Matthias Katzfuss
Texas A&M University
Jared Murray
Carnegie Mellon University
Council of Sections Representative
David van Dyk
Imperial College London
Rajib Paul
Western Michigan University
Statistical Consulting Section
Chair-Elect
Jonathan Mahnken
University of Kansas Medical Center
LeAnna Stork
Monsanto
Secretary/Treasurer
Mekibib Altaye
Cincinnati Children’s Hospital
Chris Barker
Statistical Planning and Analysis Services, Inc.
Council of Sections Representative
Hsin-Yi (Cindy) Weng
University of Utah
Hrishikesh Chakraborty
University of South Carolina
Executive Committee at Large
Jason Machan
Lifespan Hospital System
Wei-Ting Hwang
University of Pennsylvania
Statistical Education Section
Chair-Elect
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
Duke University
Roger Woodard
North Carolina State University
Council of Sections Representative
Matt Hayat
Georgia State University
Adam Sullivan
Brown University
Executive Committee at Large
Leigh Johnson
Capital University
Sharon Lane-Getaz
St. Olaf College
Weiwen Miao
Haverford College
Cassandra Pattanayak
Wellesley College
Statistical Graphics Section
Chair-Elect
Dianne Cook
Monash University
Kaiser Fung
Columbia University Program
Mahbubul Majumder
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Program Chair-Elect
Edward Mulrow
NORC at the University of Chicago
Publications Officer
Joyce Robbins
Columbia University and NBR
Abbass Sharif
University of Southern California
Statistical Learning and Data Science Section
Chair-Elect
Heping Zhang
Yale University School of Public Health
Tian Zheng
Columbia University
Program Chair-Elect
Ali Shojaie
University of Washington
Vincent Vu
The Ohio State University
Statistical Programmers and Analysts Section
Chair-Elect
Candidate withdrew
Jonathan Lisic
National Agricultural Statistics Service
Program Chair-Elect
William Coar
Axio Research
Richard Schwinn
U.S. Small Business Administration
Secretary
Marianne Miller
Eli Lilly and Company
Pratheepa Jeganathan
Stanford University
Treasurer
Amy Gillespie
Merck & Co., Inc.
Michael Yingling
Washington University School of Medicine
Publications Officer
Enayetur Raheem
Carolinas HealthCare System
Tasneem Zaihra
SUNY Brockport
Statistics and the Environment Section
Chair-Elect
Christopher Wikle
University of Missouri – Columbia
Jarrett Barber
Northern Arizona University
Program Chair-Elect
Will Kleiber
University of Colorado, Boulder
Alexandra Schmidt
McGill University
Treasurer
Maria Terres
The Climate Corporation
Ying Sun
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Publications Chair-Elect
Oksana Chkrebtii
The Ohio State University
K. Sham Bhat
Los Alamos National Laboratory
Council of Sections Representative
Jenise Swall
Virginia Commonwealth University
Wendy Meiring
University of California, Santa Barbara
Statistics in Defense and National Security Section
Chair-Elect
Jane Pinelis
The Johns Hopkins University
Taps Maiti
Michigan State University
Program Chair-Elect
Erin Hodgess
University of Houston
Kassandra Fronczyk
Institute for Defense Analyses
Statistics in Epidemiology Section
Chair-Elect
Jing Cheng
University of California, San Francisco
Kathleen Jablonski
The George Washington University
Program Chair-Elect
Yingqi Zhao
Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Veronica Berrocal
University of Michigan
Publications Officer
Yan Ma
The George Washington University
Colin Fogarty
MIT Sloan School of Management
Council of Sections Representative
Rebecca Yates Coley
Group Health Research Institute
Nandita Mitra
University of Pennsylvania
Statistics in Genomics and Genetics Section
Chair-Elect
Dan Nicolae
The University of Chicago
Dan Nettleton
Iowa State University
Program Chair-Elect
Hongkai Ji
The Johns Hopkins University
Li-Xuan Qin
Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Council of Sections Representative
Pei Wang
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
Peng Wei
MD Anderson Cancer Center
Statistics in Imaging Section
Chair-Elect
Xi Luo
Brown University
Bin Nan
University of Michigan
Hernando Ombao
University of California at Irvine
Program Chair-Elect
Nicole Carlson
University of Colorado
Linglong Kong
University of Alberta
Ting-Ting Zhang
University of Virginia
Council of Sections Representative
Amanda Mejia
Indiana University
Dana Tudorascu
University of Pittsburgh
Statistics in Marketing Section
Chair-Elect
Lynd Bacon
Loma Buena Associates, Northwestern University, Notre Dame University
Victoria Gamerman
Boehringer-Ingelheim Pharmaceuticals, Inc.
Program Chair-Elect
Tim Trudell
Nielsen
Sarjinder Singh
Texas A&M University-Kingsville
Treasurer
Hiya Banerjee
Novartis Pharmaceuticals Inc.
Lihang Yin
Leaders Financial & Insurance Services, Inc.
Statistics in Sports Section
Chair-Elect
Luke Bornn
Simon Fraser University
Shane Reese
Brigham Young University
Program Chair-Elect
Sam Ventura
Carnegie Mellon University
Andrew Swift
University of Nebraska at Omaha
Council of Sections Representative
Stephanie Kovalchik
Tennis Australia/Victoria University
Kenny Shirley
Amazon
Survey Research Methods Section
Chair-Elect
Kennon Copeland
NORC at the University of Chicago
Mansour Fahimi
GfK Custom Research
Program Chair-Elect
Asaph Young Chun
U.S. Census Bureau
Michael Sinclair
Mathematica Policy Research
Secretary
Safaa Amer
RTI International
Bo Lu
The Ohio State University
Council of Sections Representative
Jamie Ridenhour
RTI International
Michael Yang
NORC at the University of Chicago
Teaching Statistics in the Health Sciences Section
Chair-Elect
Amy Nowacki
Cleveland Clinic
John McGready
Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health