Alicia Carriquiry

Affiliation: Department of Statistics, Iowa State University

Educational Background: PhD, Statistics and Animal Genetics, Iowa State University; MSc, Statistics, Iowa State University; MSc, Animal Breeding, University of Illinois at Urbana

Alicia Carriquiry was born in Montevideo, Uruguay. She earned the degree of ingeniero agrónomo from the Universidad de la República in 1982. She enrolled in an MSc degree in animal breeding at the University of Illinois at Urbana and graduated in 1985. She then moved to Iowa State University in Ames, where she earned an MSc in statistics in 1986 and completed a joint PhD in statistics and animal genetics in 1989.

Since 1990, Carriquiry has been on the faculty in the department of statistics at Iowa State University. She is currently distinguished professor of liberal arts and sciences, holds the President’s Chair in Statistics, and is director of the Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE), a federally funded research center. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine, a fellow of the American Statistical Association, a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, a fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.

Carriquiry’s research interests include measurement error modeling, survey sampling, and Bayesian methods. In recent years, she has become interested in statistical learning algorithms and their application in various disciplines, particularly forensic science and criminal justice.