Biography:Theresa Utlaut

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Short description: American statistician

Theresa Lynn (Terri) Utlaut is an American statistician, and a principal engineer at the Intel Corporation, where she develops statistical methods for Intel's microprocessor and integrated circuit manufacturing processes, as well as providing statistical consultation and training.[1][2] She is also a user of the JMP statistical software package and its scripting language, and a coauthor of the book JSL Companion: Applications of the JMP® Scripting Language.[3]

Education and career

Utlaut was an undergraduate at the University of Portland.[3] She completed a Ph.D. in statistics at Oregon State University in 1999, with the dissertation F-Tests in Partially Balanced and Unbalanced Mixed Linear Models supervised by David S. Birkes.[4]

While a student, she worked at Intel as a summer intern for three summers, and she joined Intel permanently after completing her Ph.D.[2]

Service

Utlaut chaired the Quality and Productivity Section of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2013.[5] She was elected as chair of the ASA Council of Sections Governing Board in 2016,[6] and in the same year chaired the Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality.[7] In 2021-2022 she chaired the ASA Committee on Membership Retention and Recruitment.[8]

Recognition

Utlaut was named a Fellow of the American Society for Quality in 2020, "for outstanding leadership and accomplishments in implementing quality and process improvement projects; for extraordinary commitment to the development and teaching of courses; for exceptional dedication while mentoring others; and for the passionate promotion of quality and statistics".[9] In 2022 she was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[10]

References

  1. Wasserstein, Ronald L. (2015), "Outlook on Statistics Leadership", in Golbeck, Amanda L.; Olkin, Ingram; Gel, Yulia R., Leadership and Women in Statistics, CRC Press, pp. 3–8, ISBN 9781482236453, https://books.google.com/books?id=1BQqCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA3 
  2. 2.0 2.1 "A statistician at Intel", Meta (Oregon State University Department of Statistics): 7, Summer 2015, https://stat.oregonstate.edu/files/stat7/StatIstics%20newsletter%202015_FINAL2.pdf, retrieved 2022-07-20 
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Theresa L. Utlaut", Authors (SAS Institute), https://support.sas.com/en/books/authors/theresa-utlaut.html, retrieved 2022-07-20 
  4. Theresa Utlaut at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "A Message from Q&P Chair, Theresa Utlaut", AmStat News (American Statistical Association), December 1, 2013, https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2013/12/01/qp-message/, retrieved 2022-07-20 
  6. "LaVange Elected ASA President; Williamson Elected Vice President", AmStat News (American Statistical Association), July 1, 2016, https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2016/07/01/electionresults16/, retrieved 2022-07-20 
  7. Utlaut, Theresa L. (October 2016), "Message from the Chair", Statistics Digest: The Newsletter of the ASQ Statistics Division (American Society for Quality) 35 (3): 1–3, https://my.asq.org/communities/files/177/2957, retrieved 2022-07-20 
  8. "Committee Spotlight: Committee on Membership Retention and Recruitment", AmStat News (American Statistical Association), October 1, 2021, https://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2021/10/01/committee-on-membership-retention-and-recruitment/, retrieved 2022-07-20 
  9. "2020 New ASQ Fellows", myASQ (American Society for Quality), July 26, 2021, https://my.asq.org/news/359/2217, retrieved 2022-07-20 
  10. ASA 2022 Fellows, American Statistical Association, https://www.amstat.org/docs/default-source/amstat-documents/pdfs/fellows/fellows2022.pdf, retrieved 2022-07-20