Biography:Snehalata V. Huzurbazar
Snehalata V. Huzurbazar is an American statistician, known for her work in statistical genetics, and also interested in applications of statistics to geology.[1] She is a professor of biostatistics, and chair of the biostatistics department, at the West Virginia University School of Public Health.[2]
Huzurbazar was born in Ames, Iowa. In 1984, she graduated from Grinnell College with an independently designed major that combined economics, history, sociology, and Spanish,[3] with a year off in Zagreb learning Croatian.[1] She earned a master's degree in economics from Vanderbilt University in 1988, with V. Kerry Smith as her advisor, and completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1992 at Colorado State University.[3] Her dissertation, supervised by Ronald W. Butler, was Saddlepoint Approximations in Multivariate Analysis.[4] She joined the department of statistics of the University of Georgia in 1992,[3] moved to the University of Wyoming in 1995,[3][2] was on leave there from 2012 to 2014 while working as deputy director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina,[3][1] and moved to West Virginia University as chair in 2017.[2]
Huzurbazar is the daughter of noted Indian statistician V. S. Huzurbazar and the sister of noted statistician Aparna V. Huzurbazar,[5] whose husband, Brian J. Williams, is also a statistician.[1] All four are Fellows of the American Statistical Association; Snehalata was elected as a Fellow in 2017, her father in 1983, her sister in 2008, and Williams in 2015.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 "Snehalata Huzurbazar Joins SAMSI as Deputy Director", Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute 5 (1): 1, Spring 2012, https://www.samsi.info/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/samsi_spring12.pdf
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 WVU School of Public Health welcomes new faculty and department chair, West Virginia University School of Public Health, July 5, 2017, https://medicine.hsc.wvu.edu/News/Story?headline=wvu-school-of-public-health-welcomes-new-faculty-and-department-chair, retrieved 2017-11-28
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 3.4 Curriculum vitae, November 2017, https://sole.hsc.wvu.edu/apps/directory/Public/CvFileView?id=52331, retrieved 2017-11-28
- ↑ Snehalata V. Huzurbazar at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Deshpande, J. V., Vasant Shankar Huzurbazar, Indian National Science Academy, http://insaindia.res.in/BM/BM20_9504.pdf, retrieved 2017-11-28
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2017-11-28
External links
 |  |
