Interdisciplinary Research and Leadership: How to Make an Impact in the Data Science Age

• Activity Number: 554 - Interdisciplinary Research and Leadership: How to Make an Impact in the Data Science Age
• Type: Invited
• Date/Time: Wednesday, July 31, 2019 : 2:00 PM to 3:50 PM
• Sponsor: IMS
• Author(s): Alicia Carriquiry* and Jasjeet Sekhon* and Hongyu Zhao* and Christopher Genovese* and Tamara Tamara Greasby* and Simon Tavare*
• Companies: Data Science at The Trade Desk and Inst of Cancer Dynamics and Statistics, Columbia University and Iowa State University and Statistics, CMU and UC Berkeley and Yale
• Keywords: Interdisciplinary research; Leadership; Impact; Real world; collaboration; team

Abstract

This session brings together distinguished statisticians at the frontiers of interdisciplinary research and leadership to discuss how statisticians can make an impact in the real world. Through their experience, they will explain how to find opportunities and resources, how to organize teams, how to cultivate a fair collaborative culture, how to train students/postdocs, and, most importantly, how to lead interdisciplinary organizations that vary in size from institutes/colleges to research centers and to research groups. Last but not least, they will assess where we are as a community regarding making impacts in the data science era and they will make recommendations on how to move forward most effectively.