Affiliation
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgetown University

Educational Background
The George Washington University, DC: PhD, Statistics (2001)
University of Maryland, College Park: MA, Mathematics (1998)
University of Maryland, College Park: BS, Mathematics (1994)

About Kimberly
Kimberly Sellers is a statistician and associate professor of mathematics and statistics specializing in statistics at Georgetown University in Washington, DC, and a principal researcher with the Center for Statistical Research and Methodology Division of the US Census Bureau. A DC-area native, she completed her BS and MA degrees in mathematics at the University of Maryland College Park. During her graduate studies in mathematics at Maryland, she became inspired to study statistics, thanks to instruction by Professor Piotr Mikulski. After completing her MA degree, she earned her PhD in mathematical statistics at The George Washington University, partly through support as a Gates Millennium Scholar (one of the inaugural cohort recipients).

Sellers held faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University as a visiting assistant professor of statistics and the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine as an assistant professor of biostatistics. She was also a senior scholar at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics before her return to the DC area.

Sellers’ research areas of interest and expertise are in generalized statistical methods involving count data that contain data dispersion and image analysis techniques, particularly low-level analyses including preprocessing, normalization, feature detection, and alignment. Her primary research centers on the Conway-Maxwell-Poisson distribution. Sellers is the leading expert on this distribution, having developed various statistical methods associated with distribution theory, generalized regression models, control chart theory, multivariate distributions and analysis, and stochastic processes for count data expressing data dispersion. Her single-authored and collaborative works have been published in prominent journals, and she is a nationally and internationally invited speaker.

Sellers is likewise recognized both nationally and internationally for her service activities. She is an associate editor for the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and The American Statistician. She is also an active contributor to efforts to diversify the fields of mathematical and statistical sciences, both with respect to gender and race/ethnicity. Last but not least, she is the 2017–2018 chair for the American Statistical Association’s Committee on Women in Statistics and an advisory board member for the Black Doctoral Network.