The ASA Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science will hold the 2026 SLDS Conference November 1–3 at the New York Marriott at the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City.
New York City
An Interview with Marcia Levenstein, NYC Chapter Treasurer and Longtime ASA Member
Biostatistician, bioethicist, longtime ASA member, and NYC Chapter Treasurer Marcia Levenstein answers questions about the chapter in light of its 90th year.
AI Workshop NYC 2025: An Inaugural Gathering
The inaugural AI Workshop NYC 2025 brought together over 100 researchers, technologists, and students for plenary talks, panels, demonstrations, and a hackathon showcasing innovative AI applications in digital health.
Student Team Develops Physical Therapy Tool at Columbia Hackathon
At Columbia’s HackingHealth event, Angela Choi teamed up with Trisha Mehta and Doorva Garg to build REV!VE—a tool that helps physical therapy patients stick with their recovery plans through real-time motion tracking.
May Issue Includes Insights on Communicating Statistics
In this issue, three statistical communicators bring you their experiences and advice for communicating statistics to broad audiences—each in their own way—with the hope they will inspire you to capture your own audiences.
Denise A. Abreu
Growing up, Denise Abreu’s favorite subject was math. Thinking math and computer science were the same thing, she attended the State University of New York at Stony Brook to major in computer science. To her amazement, she genuinely enjoyed deriving maximum likelihood estimators, finding means and standard deviations, and doing matrix algebra more than she did programing, thus she switched majors. Today, Abreu is a mathematical statistician who has served within the federal statistical system for more than 23 years, first at the Census Bureau and then at the US Department of Agriculture National Agricultural Statistics Service.
My ASA Story: Fanni Natanegara, Research Adviser and Group Leader
Fanni Natanegara says, “Through ASA, I feel a sense of belonging and a sense that I am part of something bigger … so, I am hooked!”
Barry Nussbaum: EPA ‘Statistics Guy’ and Persuasive Communicator
In 2017, Nussbaum served as ASA president and placed communication and engagement among his top presidential initiatives. His interpersonal communications strategy became a foundation for his famous mantra, “It’s not what we said; it’s not what they heard; it’s what they say they heard.”