ASA President’s Address
Katherine Ensor, Rice University
Celebrating Statistical Foundations Driving 21st-Century Innovation
Tuesday, August 9, 8:00 p.m.
Katherine Bennett Ensor is the Noah G. Harding Professor of Statistics at Rice University, where she serves as director of the Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems and director of the Kinder Institute’s Urban Data Platform. Ensor’s research focuses on the development of statistical and data science methods for practical problems. Her expertise is on dependent data covering time, space, and dimension with applied interests in finance, energy, environment, health, and risk management. She is a fellow of the ASA and AAAS and has been recognized for her leadership, scholarship, and mentoring.
Deming Lecture
David L. Banks, Duke University
Deming and the Industries of Today
Tuesday, August 9, 4:00 p.m.
David Banks is Professor of the Practice of Statistics at Duke University. He earned an MS in applied mathematics from Virginia Tech in 1982, followed by a PhD in statistics in 1984. He then won a National Science Foundation postdoctoral research fellowship in the mathematical sciences, which he took at the University of California, Berkeley, working with David Blackwell. Banks is past president of the Classification Society and International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics. He is an ASA Fellow and Founder and has twice served on the ASA Board of Directors. He is also a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and American Association for the Advancement of Science. His research areas include models for computational advertising, dynamic text networks, adversarial risk analysis, human rights statistics, agent-based models, forensics, and certain topics in high-dimensional data analysis.
SPAIG Lunchtime Speaker
Christopher Marcum, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy
A Framework for Scientific Integrity in Statistical Context
Sunday, August 7, 12:30 p.m.
Christopher Steven Marcum is the assistant director for open science and data policy in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy. Before joining OSTP, he served as one of three National Institutes of Health representatives to the President’s Scientific Integrity Fast Track Action Committee, where he cochaired the working group on training and transparency. He now cochairs the task force in his OSTP capacity. In addition to scientific integrity, his portfolio includes priorities that aim to make federal open science more accessible and equitable for all Americans. Marcum’s professional accolades include more than 50 scientific publications, a commendation of exceptional service from OSTP, a Matilda White Rile Early Stage Investigator Honor from the Office of Behavioral and Social Science Research at the NIH, two GREAT Awards from the National Human Genome Research Institute, and an Order of Merit Award from the University of California-Irvine.
Section on Statistics in Sports Lunchtime Speaker
Katherine Evans, Monumental Basketball
A Review of Causal Inference in Sports
Monday, August 8, 12:30 p.m.
Katherine Evans is the vice president of research and information systems for Monumental Basketball, supporting areas of basketball operations for the Wizards, Mystics, Go-Go, and District Gaming. Her research focuses on the application of causal inference to sports statistics, as well as improving presentation and understandability of results. Previously, Evans served as the director of strategic research for the Toronto Raptors. She is an active advocate of increasing diversity in sports analytics, both in ideas and representation. Evans holds a PhD in biostatistics from Harvard University. In her free time, she enjoys trying to solve the traveling salesman problem on foot.
Economic Outlook Lunchtime Speaker
Susan Helper, Case Western Reserve University
What We Know and What We Wish We Knew
Tuesday, August 9, 12:30 p.m.
Susan Helper is the Carlton Professor of Economics at the Weatherhead School of Management at Case Western Reserve University. She is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a nonresident senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She was formerly chief economist at the US Department of Commerce and a member of the White House Staff. She holds a PhD in economics from Harvard University.
Health Policy Statistics Section Lunchtime Speaker
Elizabeth Stuart, Johns Hopkins University
The Need for and Challenges of Policy Evaluation During the COVID-19 Pandemic
Wednesday, August 10, 12:30 p.m.
Elizabeth A. Stuart is Bloomberg Professor of American Health in the department of mental health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with joint appointments in the department of biostatistics and the department of health policy and management. She earned her PhD in statistics in 2004 from Harvard University and is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and American Association for the Advancement of Science. Stuart has extensive experience in methods for estimating causal effects and dealing with the complications of missing data in experimental and nonexperimental studies, particularly as applied to mental health, public policy, and education. Her primary research interests include designs for estimating causal effects in nonexperimental settings, methods to assess and enhance the generalizability of randomized trials to target populations, and methods for policy evaluation.
Medallion Lecture I
Dylan Small, University of Pennsylvania
Protocols for Observational Studies: Methods and Open Problems
Tuesday, August 9, 8:30 a.m.
Medallion Lecture II
Huixia Judy Wang, The George Washington University
Extreme Conditional Quantiles
Wednesday, August 10, 10:30 a.m.
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