Tapabrata (Taps) Maiti joined the US National Science Foundation’s Division of Mathematical Sciences this fall as a rotator program director for statistics. Maiti is a foundation professor in the department of statistics and probability at Michigan State University, where he has served as the graduate director of statistics and was the founding co-director for the business and social analytics center. He is a fellow of the IMS, ASA and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Maiti’s research highlights skills and expertise in statistical theory and methods with a focus on application to real-life data. His interests include the foundation of statistics and data science and statistical learning theory for large and complex spatiotemporal data with biomedical applications. He has more than 100 publications in interdisciplinary journals and has received federal funding to support his research. Maiti has served on the editorial boards of leading statistical journals.

Maiti joins NSF statistics program directors Yong Zeng, Jun Zhu, and Yulia Gel.