American Statistical Association Names 59 Fellows for 2007

American Statistical Association Names 59 Fellows for 2007



The 2007 ASA Fellows include US and International recipients, including 10 from the National Capital Area, six from California and four each from Indiana and Washington. A complete list of the honorees, by state, follows the body of the release.



ALEXANDRIA, VA (PRWEB) May 18, 2007



The American Statistical Association (ASA), the nation's preeminent professional statistical society, today announced the election of 59 of its members as Fellows of the Association. The recipients received the honor in recognition of their outstanding professional contributions to and leadership in the field of statistical science. The Fellows will be presented at a ceremony on July 31 at the Association's 167th annual Joint Statistical Meetings in Salt Lake City.



"The ASA Fellows designation honors the extraordinary members of the statistics profession," said Mary Ellen Bock, ASA president. "The collective outstanding contributions of this year's Fellows from academia, government and industry have invigorated the statistics discipline in education, research, administration and service."



The 2007 Fellows come from 25 states and several countries around the globe. Ten Fellows are from the National Capital area; California had six honorees, and Washington and Indiana each have four Fellows. A list of the 2007 Fellows by state follows this release.



The designation of Fellow has been a superlative honor in ASA for more than 90 years. According to the association by-laws, each year the Committee on Fellows can elect no more than one-third of one percent of the total ASA membership as Fellows. Individuals are nominated for the honor by fellow members and must have an established reputation and made outstanding contributions in some aspect of statistical work to be selected.



The Committee on Fellows evaluates candidates' contributions to the advancements of statistics, giving due weight to publications, the positions held by the candidates in the organizations in which they are employed, activities within the Association, membership and attainments in other societies, and other professional activities. Selection committee members were Robert M. Bell, Chair; Demissie Alemayehu, Roderick Joseph Little, Roxy L. Peck, Bonnie K. Ray, Nozer D. Singpurwalla, John H. Thompson, Preston J. Waite, and Grace L. Yang.



About the American Statistical Association

The American Statistical Association (ASA), a scientific and educational society founded in Boston in 1839, is the second oldest continuously operating professional society in the United States. For more than 160 years, ASA has been providing its 18,000 members serving in academia, government, and industry and the public with up-to-date, useful information about statistics. The ASA has a proud tradition of service to statisticians, quantitative scientists, and users of statistics across a wealth of academic areas and applications. For additional information about the American Statistical Association, please visit the association's web site at http://www. amstat. org (http://www. amstat. org) or call 703.684.1221.



2007 American Statistical Association Fellows



NATIONAL CAPITAL AREA



Lester R. Curtin, Mathematical Statistician, National Center for Health Statistics, Hyattsville, Maryland



Mary W. Gray, Professor of Mathematics & Statistics, American University, Washington, DC



David R. Judkins, Senior Statistician, Westat, Inc., Rockville, Maryland



Elizabeth H. Margosches, Statistician, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC



Leyla K. Mohadjer, Vice President, Westat, Inc., Rockville, Maryland



Barry D. Nussbaum, Chief Statistician, United States Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, DC



Allen L. Schirm, Assoc. Director and Senior Fellow, Mathematica Policy Research Inc, Washington, DC



Stuart Scott, Senior Mathematical Statistician, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Arlington, Virginia



Joanna H. Shih, Mathematical Statistician, National Cancer Institute, Bethesda, Maryland



Kai Fun Yu, Branch Chief, Biometry and Mathematical Statistics Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, Bethesda, Maryland



ALABAMA



David B. Allison, Professor of Biostatistics and Head of Section on Statistical Genetics, University of Alabama at Birmingham



ARIZONA



Joseph M. Hilbe, Government and Healthcare Statistical Consultant and Adjunct, Arizona State University, Florence



CALIFORNIA



John L. Adams, Senior Statistician, RAND, Santa Monica, California



David Draper, Professor and Chair of Statistics, University of California, Santa Cruz



Linda Gage, Senior Demographer, California Department of Finance, Sacramento



Jiming Jiang, Professor of Statistics, University of California, Davis



Michael I. Jordan, Professor of Statistics, Electrical Engineering, and Computer, UCAL Berkeley



Weng Kee Wong, Professor of Biostatistics, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles



FLORIDA



Michael J. Daniels, Associate Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics, University of Florida, Gainesville



GEORGIA



JC Lu, Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta



Elizabeth Regina Zell, Mathematical Statistician, Centers for Disease Control & Prevention, Atlanta



ILLINOIS



Mohsen Pourahmadi, Professor of Statistics, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois



INDIANA



John J. Deely, Professor Emeritus of Statistics, University of Canterbury, West Lafayette, Indiana



Rebecca W. Doerge, Professor of Statistics and Agronomy, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana



Chuanhai Liu, Professor of Statistics, University of Purdue, West Lafayette, Indiana



Walter W. Offen, Senior Research Fellow, Eli Lilly and Company, Indianapolis, Indiana



IOWA



Joseph B. Lang, Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City



MARYLAND



Ming T. Tan, Professor and Division Head of Cancer Biostatistics, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore



MASSACHUSETTS



Samuel Kou, John L. Loeb Associate Professor of Natural Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge



Katherine L. Monti, Senior Statistical Scientist and Director, Massachusetts Office, Rho, Inc., Newton



MICHIGAN



Mick P. Couper, Research Associate Professor, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor



NEW JERSEY



Zachary G. Stoumbos, Professor and Chair of Management Science and Information, Rutgers University Business School, New Providence, New Jersey



Cun-Hui Zhang, Professor of Statistics, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey



Ji Zhang, Vice President, Clinical Operations, International Clinical Development, Sanofi-Aventis Pharmaceutical Research, Bridgewater, New Jersey



NEW MEXICO



Nicolas W. Hengartner, Project Leader, Information Sciences Group, Los Alamos National Laboratory



NEW YORK



Glenn Heller, Attending Biostatistician, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York



Edward Lakatos, President, BiostatHaven Inc., Croton-on-Hudson, New York



Ian W. McKeague, Professor of Biostatistics, Columbia University, New York, New York



NORTH CAROLINA



David B. Dunson, Sr. Investigator, Nat'l Institute for Environmental Health Sciences, Research Triangle



Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver, Professor of Statistics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh



Russell D. Wolfinger, Director of Scientific Discovery and Genomics, SAS Institute, Cary, North Carolina



PENNSYLVANIA



Sati Mazumdar, Professor of Biostatistics, Graduate School of Public Health, University of Pittsburgh



SOUTH CAROLINA



Robert B. Lund, Professor of Mathematical Sciences, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina



Elizabeth H. Slate, Professor of Biostatistics, Bioinformatics, and Epidemiology, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston



TENNESSEE



Way Kuo, University Distinguished Professor and Dean of Engineering, University of Tennessee, Knoxville



TEXAS



Yu Shen, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Texas, M. D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston



VIRGINIA



Jeffrey L. Solka, Principal Scientist, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgreen, Virginia



WASHINGTON



Scott S. Emerson, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle



Ziding Feng, Member, Public Health Sciences Division, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Seattle



Patrick J. Heagerty, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle



Jonathan C. Wakefield, Professor of Statistics & Biostatistics, University of Washington, Seattle



WISCONSIN



Michael A. Newton, Professor of Statistics, Biostatistics, and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin, Madison



INTERNATIONAL



Odd O. Aalen, Professor of Biostatistics, University of Oslo, Norway



Charmaine B. Dean, Professor and Burnaby Mountain Research Chair of Statistics and Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia



Marc G. Genton, Professor of Statistics, University of Geneva, Switzerland



Therese A. Stukel, Vice President, Research and Senior Scientist, Institute Clinical Evaluative Sciences, Toronto, Ontario, Canada



Antony Unwin, Professor for Computer-Oriented Statistics and Data Analysis, Augsburg University, Augsburg, Germany



Yannis Yatracos, Professor of Statistics, National University of Singapore, Singapore



Li-Xing Zhu, Professor of Statistics, Hong Kong Baptist University, Hong Kong, China



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