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New Developments in Synthetic Data Generation: Privacy Day Webinar Summary
As the world grapples with how best to share confidential data, there is a rising interest in synthetic data methods, which are used to protect confidentiality of microdata units.
ASA Recognizes Longtime Members
Each year, the ASA recognizes all members reaching a milestone of 35, 40, 45, or 50 years of membership.
2023 ASA Board of Directors Candidates
The ASA announces the candidates for the 2022 election. Voting begins April 11 and runs through May 2. Make sure to look for your ballots in your email inbox.
Stacy R. Lindborg
Stacy R. Lindborg’s interest in statistics came from a strength in mathematics, a biproduct of having an engineer as a father who thought studying math in the summer was cool. After earning her PhD, she took a job working for Eli Lilly & Company. As she began working on data, she learned one of the greatest strengths as a statistician lies in the depth of knowledge of the data. Since then, Stacy has worked on drugs targeting serious neurological and neurodegenerative diseases in addition to cancer, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, immunology, and pain. She has also served in numerous leadership roles, including head of R&D strategy, general product management leadership, and her current role as chief development officer.
Jonaki Bose
Jonaki Bose has been a federal statistician for 27 years. She’s worked in the Education, Transportation, and Health and Human Services departments. Now, as a senior adviser, she works on interesting production challenges, mentors, and performs methodological work with like-minded colleagues interested in furthering the production and use of health statistics.
Tamara G. Kolda
Tamara G. Kolda’s career began at the dawn of the internet, in the pre-Google era. Since then, she has worked at the intersection of mathematics, computing, and data. She was awarded the Alston S. Householder Postdoctoral Fellow in Scientific Computing at Oak Ridge National Labs in Tennessee after completing her doctorate and worked for two decades at Sandia National Labs in California. She has benefitted from the advice and guidance of many statisticians along the way and finds the community to be highly collegial. She helped launch and serves as founding editor-in-chief of the SIAM Journal on Mathematics of Data Science, an academic journal focused on the mathematical and statistical foundations of data science methods.
Significance Editorial Board in Need of ASA Member
Significance magazine publishes stories about statistics and data science written by experts for everyone. Currently needed is an ASA member who is an expert statistician or data scientist to join the magazine’s editorial board.
Ni Zhao
Ni Zhao’s career as a biostatistician followed a convoluted path. When she was a kid, her parents dreamed she would become a medical doctor. She partly had the same wish—she wanted to work toward improving human health and well-being. Yet, she was also fascinated by the beauty of mathematics and didn’t think there was a way to combine math and medicine until she discovered biostatistics. Now, as an assistant professor of biostatistics at The Johns Hopkins University, she collaborates with top-notch researchers and participates in frontline research.
Susan VanderPlas
Susan VanderPlas loved math but didn’t want to be a statistician like her father. To her, what he did looked boring, and she wanted to know how the brain worked. During her master’s project, she became interested in statistical graphics because it reminded her of her first love—psychology and how the brain works. Because she is red-green colorblind, she began investigating how perception differed from the raw data presented in charts and what people took from the visualizations. She also helped organize the 2019 Uncoast Unconference—a workshop and hackathon for R users in “flyover country.” Today, she is an assistant professor in statistics at the University of Nebraska and involved in the ASA Section on Statistical Graphics.