Miranda L. Lynch joined the ASA in 2003, when she was a student working on her Master of Integrated Science degree at the University of Colorado at Denver. Read about her involvement over the years.
University of Rochester
Text Analysis Group to Become a Section
David Banks, chair of the Text Analysis Interest Group, talks about the work ahead for those in the text analysis field. Wendy Martinez will serve as the first chair of the section.
TAIG Contest Winners Tell of Experience
During JSM 2020, ASA Text Analysis Interest Group award committee members systematically evaluated a large body of research in the growing field of text analysis and presented awards to Qiuyi Wu and Enshuo Hsu for theirs.
Christy Chuang-Stein
Christy Chuang-Stein grew up in an isolated city on the east coast of Taiwan. Both her parents were high-school teachers, and she remembers doing math lessons with her mother while other kids played outside. Yes, she resented the extra lessons at the time, but those lessons served her well and she ended up majoring in math in college. In the 90s, Chuang-Stein represented Pfizer (then Pharmacia) in presenting their HIV trial data at an FDA Antiviral Drugs Advisory Committee meeting to review statistical evidence for using viral load as a surrogate for clinical outcome in assessing HIV treatments. It is hard for her to describe the sense of exhilaration when her team’s endeavors lead to profound improvement in people’s lives.
NIAID Awarded Contract to Develop Statistical Methods, Math Models
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, recently awarded a five-year, $11.9 million contract to the University of Rochester Medical Center to continue the work of the Center for Biodefense Immune Modeling.