Ronnie Sebro grew up in Tobago, a small Caribbean Island, the third of six children. He was the first student from Tobago to receive a National Scholarship in the Sciences from the Government of Trinidad and Tobago. He graduated summa cum laude with a degree in biology and minor in mathematics from Morehouse College. He was also the first student at Morehouse to receive the Howard Hughes Medical Institute predoctoral fellowship. Sebro’s career differs from most statisticians because he decided to go to medical school during graduate school. He spent his junior faculty years at the University of Pennsylvania and joined the Mayo Clinic in December of 2020. Recently, he was promoted to professor of biostatistics and professor of musculoskeletal radiology. He was humbled to learn he is one of a handful of Black male biostatistics professors and simultaneously one of few Black male radiology professors in the United States. This was one of the proudest moments in his life, second only to the birth of his son and marrying his wife.
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Measuring and Reducing Bias in Machine Learning, AI
Learning to avoid sources of bias and quantifying and minimizing its impact allow the realization of the promise of machine learning and artificial intelligence to benefit all, David Corliss says.
Q&P Section Readies for 39th Research Conference
The 39th American Statistical Association Quality and Productivity Research Conference will be held June 6–8, 2023, in Houston, Texas, at the University of Houston.
Symposium on AI in Clinical Drug Development Provides Forum to Discuss Policy
The symposium brought together participants from the FDA, pharmaceutical industry, and major academic institutions to discuss policy implications of implementing artificial intelligence in clinical drug development.
Big Tent for Statistics and Data Science
ASA promised to be the “Big Tent for Statistics and Data Science,” and ASA President Kathy Ensor shares the work the association is doing to fulfill this promise and extend its leadership by highlighting three important initiatives.
Viatris Wins 2021 Global CPhI Pharma Award for Digital Innovation
The award recognizes a set of projects that harness real-world evidence and artificial intelligence for regulatory use over a three-year period.
People News for December 2021
See what ASA members have been up to lately in the December 2021 People News update.
Data Science and Statistics Influencing Science, Technology, and Society
Claire Bowen, SDSS 2022 program chair, says the changes to society made by the COVID-19 pandemic inspired her to select the theme “Influencing Science, Technology, and Society” for the symposium.
UGA, Wells Fargo Team Up for Data Science, AI Camp
The department of statistics at the University of Georgia partnered with Wells Fargo to virtually hold the 2021 Data Science and Artificial Intelligence Summer Camp for high-school students July 12–23.
Saving Endangered Languages with AI and the Science of Communication
David Corliss tells us that using AI to save a threatened language from extinction can save the culture itself.



