From the Desk Of: Tati Howell
Radu V. Craiu, our newest Contributing Editor, is Professor and Chair of Statistical Sciences at the University of Toronto. He studied Mathematics at the University of Bucharest (BS 1995, MS 1996), and received a PhD from the Department of Statistics at The University of Chicago in 2001. His main research…
Roger Koenker was born in 1947 in North Dakota, graduated from Grinnell College in 1969 and received his PhD from the University of Michigan in 1974. He began his academic career at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1974. From 1976–83, he was a Member of the Technical Staff…
Paul R. Rosenbaum is the Robert G. Putzel Professor in the Department of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he has worked since 1986. Prior to this, he worked at the US Environmental Protection Agency, the University of Wisconsin–Madison, and the Educational Testing Service. He…
Nicolas Curien is Professor, since 2014, in the Mathematics Institute at Université Paris-Saclay, France. He specializes in probability theory and, more precisely, in random two-dimensional geometry. He received his PhD at Orsay (now Paris-Saclay) in 2011 and then spent two years at Sorbonne University as a CNRS researcher. His main…
Nick Fisher, University of Sydney & ValueMetrics Australia, is coordinator of IDSSP, an international cooperative venture to create a framework for teaching Data Science in high schools, and to teach their teachers how to deliver the curriculum. He explains:
What is Data Science? Twenty years ago, the term ‘Data Science’…