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

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

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

Tentative Participants : Session Organizers and Invited Speakers

Andrea Arnold — Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Annie Booth — Virginia Tech

Andrew Yarger — Purdue University

Arman Sabbaghi — Purdue University

Arvind Saibaba — NC State University

Beniamino Hadj-Hamar — University of South Carolina

Bill Fisher — JMP

Bobby Gramacy — Virginia Tech

Brian J. Reich — North Carolina State University

Byran Smucker — Henry Ford

Caroline Kerfonta — Boeing

Cheoljoon Jeong — Clemson University

Chi-Kuang Yeh — Georgia State University

Chih-Li Sung — Michigan State University

David Edwards — The Citadel

Dorit Hammerling — Colorado School of Mines

Dongbin Xiu — Ohio State University

Edgar Dobriban — University of Pennsylvania

Elle Buser — Emory University

Fangyi Luo — Procter & Gamble

Fenglian Pan — University of North Carolina at Charlotte

Feng Ye — Clemson University

Frederick Phoa — Academia Sinica, Taiwan

Guang Lin — Purdue University

Jie Min — University of South Florida

Jennifer Kensler — Shell

John Stufken — George Mason University

Jon Stallrich — North Carolina State University

Joey Hart — Sandia National Laboratories

JooChul Lee — Auburn University

Julia Walchessen — Carnegie Mellon University

Kaizheng Wang — Columbia University

Kamran Paynabar — Georgia Tech

Li-Hsiang Lin — Georgia State University

Liang Shi — Virginia Tech

Luke Hagar — University of Queensland

Laura Wendelberger — Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory

Michele Guindani — University of California, Los Angeles

Mikael Kuusela — Carnegie Mellon University

Mikyoung Jun — University of Houston

Mirjeta Pasha — Virginia Tech

Nathan Wycoff — University of Massachusetts Amherst

Nicholas Rios — George Mason University

Oksana Chkrebtii — Ohio State University

Ozge Surer — Miami University

Paul Wiemann — Ohio State University

Raed Al Kontar — University of Michigan

Rakhi Singh — Indian Institute of Technology

Reetam Majumder — University of Arkansas

Robert Lund — University of California, Santa Cruz

Rob Krafty — Emory University

Rong Pan — Arizona State University

Roshan Joseph — Georgia Institute of Technology

Rui Tuo — Texas A&M University

Sam Baugh — Penn State University

Shihao Yang — Georgia Tech

Shane Bookhultz — Tombras

Simon Mak — Duke University

Subhadeep Paul — Ohio State University

Tristan Contant — Colorado State University

Vladas Pipiras — University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

Whitney Huang — Clemson University

William Consagra — University of South Carolina

Xiao Liu — Georgia Tech

XiaoChen Xian — Georgia Tech

Xinwei Deng — Virginia Tech

Xun (Ryan) Huan — University of Michigan

Yao Xie — Georgia Tech

Yeng Saanchi — JMP

Yili Hong — Virginia Tech

Yiming Xu — University of Kentucky

Youngdeok Hwang — Baruch College, City University of New York

Youngjin Cho — University of Nevada, Las Vegas

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