Ana Del Amo, Gerald J. Hahn Q&P Achievement Award chair, recently announced Christine Anderson-Cook as the 2021 award winner.

Anderson-Cook is an innovator, technical leader, and influencer in many areas of industrial statistics. She has led the development of new statistical methods and applications for improving quality and productivity and made exceptional contributions to advancing the fields of design of experiments, reliability, and statistical engineering, while innovating the emerging field of data competitions. She has also published more than 220 peer-reviewed papers in international statistics, quality, and interdisciplinary journals.

Anderson-Cook is an educator and mentor for training statisticians and quality professionals. She has presented numerous webinars for quality practitioners on topics related to quality and productivity and been a regular contributor to the Quality Progress statistics roundtable and statistics spotlight columns, with 30+ columns providing practical insights on statistical usage in quality and engineering applications.

Anderson-Cook will speak at the FTC Seminar Series this fall, and nominations for the 2022 award will open later in the year.