The Speakers

Keynote Speakers

Keynote Speaker: Amy Braverman

Dr. Amy Braverman is a Senior Research Scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory,

California Institute of Technology, in Pasadena, CA. She is the Technical Group Lead for Statistical Methods and Applications in the Uncertainty Quantification and Statistical Analysis Group of the Instrument Operations and Science Data Systems Section. After graduating from Swarthmore College in 1982 with a B.A. in Economics, Dr. Braverman worked for nearly a decade in litigation support consulting. She returned to graduate school at UCLA in the early 1990’s where she earned an M.A. in Mathematics and Ph.D. in Statistics. She began her statistics career as a post-doc at JPL in 1999 and has been with the Lab ever since. Dr. Braverman’s early work was in the use of data compression methods for analysis of massive data sets. As her career advanced she has worked in spatial and spatiotemporal statistics, statistical methods for the evaluation of climate models, and most recently in Uncertainty Quantification. She has been at the forefront of JPL’s efforts to bring rigorous UQ to the derivation of geophysical information from remote sensing observations collected by NASA and JPL instruments, and is the recipient of the 2021 NASA Exceptional Public Service Medal for that effort. Dr. Braverman is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and the Chair-Elect for its Uncertainty Quantification Interest Group; previously she was the Chair of the SIAM Uncertainty Quantification Activity Group. Finally, she finds special satisfaction in mentoring post-doc’s and young researchers to build capability in Statistics at JPL, and in collaborating with academic colleagues to connect their

research, and that of their graduate students, to JPL and NASA problems.

Keynote Speaker: Peter Chien

Dr. Peter Chien is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. He has received a National Science Foundation CAREER Award and an IBM Faculty Award, and he served as Chair of the Management Committee for the American Statistical Association’s Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology. His work is adopted by Fortune 500 companies across industries including aerospace, automotive, semiconductors, electronics and life sciences.

Banquet Speaker

Dr. Ralph C. Smith joined the North Carolina State University faculty in 1998, where he is presently a Distinguished University Professor of Mathematics. He is co-author of the research monograph Smart Material Structures: Modeling, Estimation and Control and author of the books Smart Material Systems: Model Development and Uncertainty Quantification: Theory, Implementation, and Applications. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Intelligent Material Systems and Structures, International Journal for Uncertainty Quantification, and the SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification. He is the recipient of the 2016 ASME Adaptive Structures and Material Systems Award and the SPIE 2017 Smart Structures and Materials Lifetime Achievement Award. He was named a SIAM Fellow in 2018 and an ASME Fellow in 2022. His research areas include mathematical modeling and control of smart material systems, Bayesian model calibration, sensitivity analysis, and uncertainty quantification for physical and biological systems.

Organizers and Speakers

Emmanuel Agbeli — Bowling Green State University
Michael Abalo — Bowling Green State University
Andrea Arnold — Worcester Polytechnic Institute
Sakshi Arya — Case Western Reserve University

Sam Baugh — Pennsylvania State University
Dila Ram Bhandari — Tribhuvan University, Nepal
Elle Buser — Emory University

Andrew Brown — Clemson University

Chun-Yi Chang — Michigan State University
Ray-Bing Chen — National Tsing Hua University, Taiwan
Qiyuan Chen — University of Michigan
Youngjin Cho — University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Oksana Chkrebtii — Ohio State University
William Consagra — University of South Carolina
Tristan Contant — Colorado State University

Edgar Dobriban — University of Pennsylvania
Xinwei Deng — Virginia Tech

David Edwards — The Citadel

Jingyi Feng — Georgia Institute of Technology
Bill Fisher — JMP Statistical Discovery LLC

Wenyu Gao — University of North Carolina at Charlotte
Bobby Gramacy — Virginia Tech
Michele Guindani — University of California, Los Angeles
Prithwish Ghosh — North Carolina State University

Luke Hagar — University of Queensland
Songqiao Han — King’s College London
Joey Hart — Sandia National Laboratories
Beniamino Hadj-Hamar — University of South Carolina
Dorit Hammerling — Colorado School of Mines
Youngdeok Hwang — Baruch College, City University of New York

Xun (Ryan) Huan — University of Michigan
Whitney Huang — Clemson University
Ying Hung — Rutgers University

Cheoljoon Jeong — Clemson University
Roshan Joseph — Georgia Institute of Technology

Jennifer Kensler — Shell
Hwanwoo Kim — Duke University
Sajad Khodadadian — Virginia Tech
Courtney Kyger — Virginia Tech

JooChul Lee — Auburn University
Lei Cao — Northwestern University
Li-Hsiang Lin — Georgia State University
Wei-Ann Lin — National Central University, Taiwan
Xiao Liu — Georgia Institute of Technology
Fangyi Luo — Procter & Gamble
Robert Lund — University of California, Santa Cruz

Reetam Majumder — University of Arkansas
Simon Mak — Duke University
Jie Min — University of South Florida
Stefani Mokalled — Boeing

Nicholas Rios — George Mason University

Indranil Sahoo — Virginia Commonwealth University
Arman Sabbaghi — Purdue University
Arvind Saibaba — North Carolina State University
Yeng Saanchi — JMP Statistical Discovery LLC
Jon Stallrich — North Carolina State University
John Stufken — George Mason University
Bryan Smucker — Henry Ford Health System
Difan Song — Georgia Institute of Technology
Vadim Sokolov — George Mason University
Ozge Surer — Miami University

Zibo Tian — University of Florida
Rui Tuo — Texas A&M University

Simon Vandekar — Vanderbilt University

Kaizheng Wang — Columbia University
Kaiwen Wang — Davidson College
Paul Wiemann — Ohio State University
Maria Weese — Miami University
Nathan Wycoff — University of Massachusetts Amherst

Xiulin Xie — Florida State University
Kexin Xie — Virginia Tech
XiaoChen Xian — Georgia Institute of Technology
Yiming Xu — University of Kentucky
Ziqiao Xu — George Mason University

Wei-Yang Yu — Georgia Institute of Technology

Fan Zhang — Boise State University
Shangtong Zhang — University of Virginia
Qiong Zhang — Clemson University
Wei Zheng — University of Tennessee, Knoxville
Shixiang (Woody) Zhu — Carnegie Mellon University

Frederick Phoa — Academia Sinica, Taiwan

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