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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