Biography:Judy Zeh
Judy Zeh | |
|---|---|
| Nationality | American |
| Title | Professor emerita |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | University of Washington |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Statistics |
| Sub-discipline | Population dynamics and population estimation |
| Institutions | University of Washington |
| Main interests | Bowhead whale populations |
Judith E. (Judy) Zeh is an American statistician. She retired from the University of Washington, where she spent her entire career,[1] and is a research professor emerita of statistics at Washington.[2] She is known for her research on bowhead whale populations.[3][4][5][6]
Research
Zeh's research concerns population dynamics and population estimation. She has applied these methods more specifically, in association with the International Whaling Commission, to bowhead whale populations.[3][4][5] In this application, she and her collaborator Adrian Raftery became pioneers in the use of Bayesian statistics for population estimation.[6][7]
In 1999, she was elected for a three year term as chair of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission. She became the first woman in over 50 years in that position.[5][8]
Education and career
Zeh was educated entirely at the University of Washington, where she also spent her entire academic career. She graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy in 1962, and the next year began working as a computer programmer in Washington's Applied Physics Laboratory, where she remained until 1974.[1]
While employed there, she earned a second bachelor's degree in 1965 in mathematics and numerical analysis, and a master's degree in 1969 in mathematical statistics. From 1975 to 1979, she was a doctoral student in biomathematics; after completing her Ph.D. in 1979, she became a lecturer in electrical engineering, while also working off-campus as a senior statistical analyst at Mathematical Sciences Northwest.[1]
She worked as a postdoctoral researcher, research associate, and lecturer in statistics from 1982 to 1991, when she became a research associate professor in the statistics department, with a joint appointment in the Department of Quantitative Ecology and Resource Management. From 1999 to 2004 she also held an adjunct position on Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington.[1]
Recognition
In 1998, Zeh was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[9]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Curriculum vitae, http://www.stat.washington.edu/people/zeh/CVJudyZeh.pdf, retrieved 2017-11-29
- ↑ Judy Zeh, University of Washington Department of Statistics, https://www.stat.washington.edu/personnel/people.php?id=136, retrieved 2017-11-29
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "Bowhead Whale on the Rebound", The New York Times, June 25, 1991, https://www.nytimes.com/1991/06/25/news/bowhead-whale-on-the-rebound.html, retrieved 2017-11-29
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Coleman, Matt (July 3, 2000), "International debate over world whale management", The World Today (Australian Broadcasting Corporation), http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s147657.htm, retrieved 2017-11-29
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 "Zeh Elected to Leadership Role in Whale Research", A&S Perspectives (University of Washington), Autumn 1999, https://artsci.washington.edu/news/Autumn99/awards.htm, retrieved 2017-11-29
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 McGrayne, Sharon Bertsch (2011), The Theory that Would Not Die: How Bayes' Rule Cracked the Enigma Code, Hunted Down Russian Submarines, & Emerged Triumphant from Two Centuries of Controversy, Yale University Press, pp. 230–231, ISBN 9780300175097, https://books.google.com/books?id=_Kx5xVGuLRIC&pg=PA230
- ↑ Raftery, Adrian, Research on Whale Population Estimation and Population Dynamics, http://www.stat.washington.edu/raftery/Research/Whales/whales.html, retrieved 2017-11-29
- ↑ Agresti, Alan; Meng, Xiao-Li, eds. (2012), Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S., Springer, p. 524, ISBN 9781461436492, https://books.google.com/books?id=kPGJUiUCJZkC&pg=PA524, "Judy Zeh, following in Doug Chapman's footsteps, served as chairman of the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission during 2000–2002".
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2017-11-29
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