Affiliation
J. Stuart Hunter Distinguished Professor of Statistics, North Carolina State University

Educational Background
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill: PhD, Statistics (1987)
University of Virginia: MS, Applied Mathematics (1981)
University of Virginia: BS, Applied Mathematics (1980)

About Marie
Marie was born in Washington, DC, and grew up in Fairfax County, Virginia. She entered the University of Virginia School of Engineering and Applied Science in 1976 to study mechanical engineering, but switched her major to applied mathematics after taking an introductory statistics course from her future colleague at Harvard, David Harrington, who instilled in her an interest in biostatistics.

She joined the NC State Department of Statistics in 1987 after earning her PhD in statistics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC-CH) under the direction of Raymond J. Carroll. She spent the first six years of her career providing statistical consulting to faculty and graduate students in the college of agriculture and life sciences. Having received very theoretical training at UNC-CH, Marie learned through “trial by fire” how to be an effective applied statistician-collaborator.

In 1994, she moved to the department of biostatistics at what is now the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, where, until 1996, she worked on HIV studies as part of the AIDS clinical trials. During this time, she published her first book, Nonlinear Models for Repeated Measurement Data, co-authored with David Giltinan, which is considered a seminal text on nonlinear mixed effects modeling and pharmacokinetic analysis.

Marie returned to NC State in 1996 and helped develop the biostatistics courses and training in the department of statistics. Since 2004, she has been co-director of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-funded NC State-Duke University Summer Institute in Biostatistics, which encourages US undergraduates to pursue graduate training in biostatistics.

She was president of the ASA in 2013 and coordinating and executive editor of Biometrics from 2000–2002 and 2006–2017.

Marie is an elected Fellow of the ASA, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and American Association for the Advancement of Science and has received several awards, including the Janet L. Norwood for Outstanding Achievement by a Woman in the Statistical Sciences, the Snedecor and F.N. David Awards from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, and the NC State Alexander Quarles Holladay Medal—the highest faculty honor at the university.