This month, we’re highlighting Yuelin Zou, who shares with us details of his career, research, and future goals.
Meet Our Members
Calvin Zippin: A Lifetime Membership Leads to a Lifetime of Contributions
An influential figure in cancer research, Calvin Zippin holds the longest continuous membership in the ASA.
Pawel Nazarewicz: AP Statistics Teacher Extraordinaire
Chris Franck interviews AP teacher Pawel Nazarewicz, who shares his teaching philosophy, creative teaching methods, and thoughts about AI in education.
Andrew Gelman on Tough Choices in Election Forecasting
The Washington Statistical Society and George Mason University held a joint seminar on the presidential election on October 11. Edward Wu, election analytics senior producer at CNN interviewed Andrew Gelman, professor of statistics and political science at Columbia University following Gelman’s talk, “Tough Choices in Election Forecasting: All the Things That Can Go Wrong.”
Julia Lane
As a labor economist, Julia Lane is driven by practical questions such as “What is the return on investment in on-the-job training?” Her interest in data and statistics led to innovative methods combining diverse data sources and addressing bias and measurement issues. Passionate about public good, she co-founded programs such as the Longitudinal Employer-Household Dynamics Program, PatentsView, and the Coleridge Initiative. Her latest is a data search and discovery platform called Democratizing Data. Lane’s significant contributions extend to empowering women with remote access facilities and eliminating child care barriers. Among her achievements, she takes pride in her Nature article, “Women Are Credited Less in Science Than Men,” emphasizing the crucial role of statistics in understanding selection bias and highlighting implications for science policy.
A Statistician’s Life: Chris Barker
Chris Barker shares the path his life has taken as a statistician, from his days in academia to his work in the pharmaceutical industry and his membership with the ASA.
Q&A with Statisticians and Data Scientists Working to Improve Our Communities
These statisticians and data scientists have been working on the front lines to improve our communities, so we asked them to talk about their current projects; who inspired them; and how to get started supporting where we each live, work, learn, and play.
Stephanie Shipp: ‘Democratizing’ Data Science to Serve the Public Good
Shipp is the interim director and a professor at the Social and Decision Analytics Division within the Biocomplexity Institute at the University of Virginia. Working with Sallie Keller, the founding director, she built and developed the division for “democratizing” data science to serve the public good.
Xihong Lin: On the Front Lines of COVID-19 Research
Xihong Lin, biostatistics and statistics professor at Harvard University, and her former post-doctoral fellow, Chaolong Wang, worked day and night to help the world understand COVID-19, what happened in Wuhan, and the steps it took to control the outbreak—including the use of personal protective equipment, which became life-saving.
‘Sailing Your Own Path’: An Interview with Jeri Mulrow
Jeri Mulrow found statistics to be a great foundation for her career and the federal statistics system to be a supportive environment for women, especially within leadership positions. She remarked that finding people who can advocate, mentor, or champion another person’s career is a mix of luck and hard work.