Featured Speaker
Keynote Speaker
Madhumita (Bonnie) Ghosh-Dastidar, RAND Corporation
Madhumita (Bonnie) Ghosh-Dastidar is head of the Statistics Group and a senior statistician at RAND Corporation. Her areas of expertise include study design, sampling, survey methodology, evaluations, missing data, and longitudinal and multilevel modeling. Ghosh-Dastidar’s experience includes being lead statistician for large-scale surveys on sexual assault in the military and the Singapore mental health survey to assess national prevalence. Her current collaborations center on multiple National Institutes of Health studies leveraging quasi-experimental design to evaluate the effect of neighborhood-level change on residents’ diet, sleep, and cardiovascular health. She is a fellow of the ASA and has been recognized for her collaboration, leadership and mentoring. Ghosh-Dastidar is the 119th president of the American Statistical Association.