Biography:Susan Paddock
Susan Mary Paddock is an American statistician whose publications have included work on nonparametric Bayesian inference,[1][2] substance abuse,[2] and the safety of autonomous vehicles.[3]
Paddock is a graduate of the University of Minnesota and has a Ph.D. from Duke University.[4] Her 1999 doctoral dissertation, Randomized Polya Trees: Bayesian Nonparametrics for Multivariate Data Analysis, was supervised by Mike West.[1] Formerly head of the RAND Statistics Group at the RAND Corporation, she moved to NORC at the University of Chicago in 2019 as chief statistician and executive vice president.[2]
She was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2013,[5] and in the same year won the Mid-Career Achievement Award of the American Statistical Association's Health Policy Statistics Section.[6] She was the 2019 chair of the association's Section on Bayesian Statistical Science.[7]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Susan Paddock at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Susan Paddock Named Executive Vice President and Chief Statistician of NORC at the University of Chicago", Press Release (NORC at the University of Chicago), https://www.norc.org/NewsEventsPublications/PressReleases/Pages/susan-paddock-named-executive-vice-president-and-chief-statistician-of-norc-at-the-university-of-chicago.aspx, retrieved 2021-05-18
- ↑ Mangan, Dan (April 12, 2016), Fool's errand? Testing the safety of self-driving cars, CNBC, https://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/11/fools-errand-testing-the-safety-of-self-driving-cars.html
- ↑ "Susan Paddock", Experts (NORC at the University of Chicago), https://www.norc.org/Experts/Pages/susan-paddock.aspx, retrieved 2021-05-18
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2021-05-18
- ↑ Health Policy Statistics Section Achievement Awards, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/Health-Policy-Statistics-Section-Achievement-Awards.aspx, retrieved 2021-05-18
- ↑ "Current Officers", Section on Bayesian Statistical Science (American Statistical Association), https://community.amstat.org/sbss/aboutus/sectionofficers111/currentofficers, retrieved 2021-05-18
External links
- Susan Paddock publications indexed by Google Scholar
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