Kathryn Roeder

Kathryn M. Roeder is an American statistician who "played a pivotal role developing the foundations of DNA forensic inference".[1] She is Vice Provost for Faculty at Carnegie Mellon University, where she also holds positions as professor of statistics and professor of computational biology.[2] Her research interests include nonparametric statistics, high-dimensional statistics, and statistical genetics; at Carnegie Mellon, she is part of a project focused on uncovering the genetic basis of autism.[3][4]

Education and career

Roeder did her undergraduate studies at the University of Idaho, where she graduated in 1982 with a bachelor's degree in wildlife resources.[2] She worked as a biologist a year in the Pacific Northwest, before returning to academia for graduate studies in statistics.[3] She completed her Ph.D. in 1988 at Pennsylvania State University;[2][3] her dissertation, supervised by Bruce G. Lindsay, was Method of Spacings for Semiparametric Inference.[5]

Roeder joined the faculty of Yale University in 1988, and earned tenure there; she remained there until 1994, when she moved to the statistics department at Carnegie Mellon. She added a second appointment in computational biology in 1998, and became Vice Provost for Faculty in 2015.[2]

Recognition

In 1995, Roeder became an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[2] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1996.[6] In 1997, she received two major awards of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies: the Presidents' Award "in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics",[7] and the George W. Snedecor Award, for her work in biometry with Bruce Lindsay and Raymond J. Carroll.[8] In the same year she was elected as a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and in 1999 gave the Medallion Lecture of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[2] She won the Janet L Norwood Award for outstanding achievement by a woman in the statistical sciences in 2013.[1]

Personal

Roeder is married to Bernard J. Devlin, a psychiatrist at the University of Pittsburgh, and has worked together with him on research involving genetics and autism.[4]

Selected publications

  • Roeder, Kathryn; Carroll, Raymond J.; Lindsay, Bruce G. (1996), "A semiparametric mixture approach to case-control studies with errors in covariables", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 91 (434): 722–732, doi:10.2307/2291667, MR 1395739
  • Devlin, B.; Daniels, Michael; Roeder, Kathryn (July 1997), "The heritability of IQ", Nature, 388 (6641): 468–471, doi:10.1038/41319
  • Roeder, Kathryn; Wasserman, Larry (September 1997), "Practical Bayesian density estimation using mixtures of normals", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 92 (439): 894–902, doi:10.1080/01621459.1997.10474044 .
  • Devlin, B.; Roeder, Kathryn (December 1999), "Genomic control for association studies", Biometrics, 55 (4): 997–1004, doi:10.1111/j.0006-341x.1999.00997.x, JSTOR 2533712
  • Jones, Bobby L.; Nagin, Daniel S.; Roeder, Kathryn (February 2001), "A SAS procedure based on mixture models for estimating developmental trajectories", Sociological Methods & Research, 29 (3): 374–393, doi:10.1177/0049124101029003005
  • Wasserman, Larry; Roeder, Kathryn (2009), "High-dimensional variable selection", The Annals of Statistics, 37 (5A): 2178–2201, arXiv:0704.1139, doi:10.1214/08-AOS646, MR 2543689

References

  1. 1 2 Twelfth Annual Janet L. Norwood Award For Outstanding Achievement By A Woman In The Statistical Sciences, Recipient: Kathryn Roeder, Ph.D., University of Alabama School of Public Health, retrieved 2017-11-22
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Curriculum vitae (PDF), retrieved 2017-11-22
  3. 1 2 3 Meet the Vice Provost, Carnegie Mellon University, retrieved 2017-11-22
  4. 1 2 Templeton, David (November 3, 2014), "Pittsburgh researchers explain complex genetics involved in autism", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  5. ↑ Kathryn Roeder at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-11-22
  7. ↑ Presidents' Award, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, retrieved 2017-11-22
  8. ↑ George W. Snedecor Award, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, retrieved 2017-11-22
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