People News for June 2023

Rebecca Hubbard

Rebecca Hubbard—professor and vice chair for faculty professional development in the department of biostatistics, epidemiology, and informatics at the University of Pennsylvania—is the winner of the 2023 Gertrude M. Cox Award. The award recognizes an early- to mid-career statistician who has made significant contributions to one or more of the areas of applied statistics in which Cox worked.

Hubbard’s research addresses real-world data quality issues such as informative observation patterns, missing data, and measurement error. Her work has been applied to studies in the oncology, neurology, and cardiology fields, and she is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and statistical editor for the New England Journal of Medicine. She has published more than 150 peer-reviewed papers.

As part of the award, Hubbard will give a presentation at the Washington Statistical Society annual dinner June 21 at RTI International.

The Gertrude M. Cox Award is jointly sponsored by RTI International and the Washington Statistical Society.

Lance A. Waller

Lance A. Waller, professor and former chair in the Emory University Rollins School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics, presented the 2023 Donna J. Brogan Lecture in Biostatistics on April 20.

A Fellow of the ASA, Waller’s research involves the development of statistical methods for geographic data, including applications in environmental justice, epidemiology, disease surveillance, and disease ecology.

Waller’s talk was titled, “Maps: A Statistical View.” In his presentation, he explored how geography influences inference in spatial statistical analyses. Using historical and contemporary examples, Waller illustrated how maps provide a critical context for data visualization and interpretation, ranging from the known (“you are here”) to the unknown (“here be dragons”).

This lecture honors Donna J. Brogan, a former faculty member of Emory University and chair of the Rollins School of Public Health Department of Biostatistics.

D. Anthony Miles and Denise Cornish

ASA members D. Anthony Miles and Denise Cornish were presented with the Best Research Paper Award at the spring 2023 Academy of Business Research Conference in New Orleans. The winning paper, “The Rise of Stress and Technology at the Workplace: An Empirical Study on Predictive Analytics with Technostress at the Workplace,” was chosen for its applied research on technostress.