Mathematics Awareness Month
April 2016
The Future of Prediction
Committee Members
Chuck Kincaid
is the Senior Engagement Director for the Business Intelligence and Analytics Practice of Experis. He studied at Kansas State University and the University of Florida. Chuck has been with Experis since 1999 and since 2002 he has managed an eclectic team of analytics professionals in their Kalamazoo Center of Excellence where a team of analytics professionals have been providing services to every industry since the early 90's. Chuck regularly speaks at SAS User Groups, the Joint Statistical Meetings and other events, as well as teaches on a wide variety of topics. His professional interests are in analytics talent, data science, analytics infrastructure, education and visualization.
Mine Çetinkaya-Rundel
is an Assistant Professor of the Practice and the Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Los Angeles. Dr. Çetinkaya-Rundel's work focuses on innovation in statistics pedagogy, with an emphasis on student-centered learning, computation, reproducible research, and open-source education. She teaches the popular MOOC titled Data Analysis and Statistical Inference on Coursera. She is a co-author of three open-source statistics textbooks as part of the OpenIntro project as well as a co-editor of and regular contributor to the Citizen Statistician blog and Taking a Chance in the Classroom column in Chance Magazine.
Michael W. Berry
holds the title of Full Professor in the Departments of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (EECS) and Mathematics at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. He is also Director of the Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning (CISML) in the College of Engineering at the University of Tennessee. In Fall 2014, he had an IPA appointment with the Advanced Scientific Computing Research (ASCR) Division of the Office of Science at the U.S. Department of Energy in Germantown, MD. Since 2003, he has hosted the Undergraduate Math Jeopardy Contest for the annual meeting of the MAA Southeastern Section.
Omar Ghattas
is the John A. and Katherine G. Jackson Chair in Computational Geosciences, Professor of Geological Sciences and Mechanical Engineering, and Director of the Center for Computational Geosciences in the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences (ICES) at The University of Texas at Austin. He is also a member of the faculty in the Computational Science, Engineering, and Mathematics (CSEM) interdisciplinary PhD program in ICES, serves as Director of the KAUST-UT Austin Academic Excellence Alliance. Prior to coming to UT-Austin in 2005, he was a professor at Carnegie Mellon University for 16 years. He earned BS, MS, and PhD degrees from Duke University in 1984, 1986, and 1988.
Amy Langville
is a Professor of Mathematics at the College of Charleston where she specializes in Operations Research. Lately she's been thinking a lot about the stable matching problem, ranking, and clustering. If you can't find her on campus, you can probably find her surfing on Folly Beach.
Ronald L. (Ron) Wasserstein
is the Executive Director of the American Statistical Association (ASA). Wasserstein assumed the ASA's top staff leadership post in August 2007. In this role, Wasserstein provides executive leadership and management for the association and is responsible for ensuring that the ASA fulfills its mission to promote the practice and profession of statistics. Prior to joining the ASA, Wasserstein was a mathematics and statistics department faculty member and administrator at Washburn University in Topeka, Kan., from 1984–2007. During his last seven years at the school, he served as the university's vice president for academic affairs. Wasserstein is a Fellow of the ASA and American Association for the Advancement of Science.
American Statistical Association Staff Members
Thanks to Donna LaLonde, Sara Davidson and Megan Murphy for their contributions to Mathematics Awareness Month 2016.