The ASA Committee on Career Development will hold Virtual Career Office Hours, an On-Demand Career Advice Service for Statisticians and Data Professionals in Business, Industry, Government, and Academia.
2021
CCD's Virtual Office Hours
Upcoming: Stats & Data Science Career Series in CCD's Office Hour and Webinar series
Upcoming: Promotions VOH - Fall 2020
2020
Postdoc VOH
CCD's first round of virtual office hours were be held 12pm EDT Mon March 30th 2020 (video) and 1pm EDT Thurs Apr 2 (video), and were focused on Postdoc Positions. It featured statisticians that have held postdocs for a question and answer as well as professors that may have advice for future postdocs and/or offer positions at their institution.
- How does the interview process work?
- How do you find a mentor/coach/sponsor?
- How-to and where to find
- Pros and Con
- Benefits for setting academic research agenda
- Benefits for non-academic positions
Join us at future Virtual Office Hours.
Holding postdoc office hours on Mar 30 @ 12pm: (Video)
- Murali Haran, Professor of Statistics and Dept Head, Penn State University and former NISS postdoc
- Ofer Harel, Professor of Statistics and Director of Graduate Admissions at the University of Connecticut and former UW Biostat postdoc
- Yawen Guan, Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and former SAMSI postdoc
Holding postdoc office hours on Apr 2 @ 1pm (Video)
Postdoc Office Hours Bios
Murali Haran, Professor of Statistics and Dept Head, Penn State University
Murali is a Professor and Department Head with the Penn State University Department of Statistics. Prior to joining the faculty at Penn State, he served as a postdoc with NISS from 2003 to 2004, where he worked on statistical techniques called random forests for applications in software engineering research. In addition to NISS, Haran also spent time as a research fellow with SAMSI in 2009 for the program “Space-Time Analysis for Environmental Mapping, Epidemiology and Climate Change,” and has continued to collaborate with SAMSI fellows. Haran’s Penn State research has involved statistical methods for studying climate change, modeling the dynamics of infectious diseases, and studying the spread of invasive plant species. |
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Ofer Harel, Professor of Statistics and Director of Graduate Admissions at the University of Connecticut
Dr. Harel received his doctorate in statistics in 2003 from the Pennsylvania State University; where he developed his methodological expertise in the areas of missing data techniques, diagnostic tests, longitudinal studies, Bayesian methods, sampling techniques, mixture models, latent class analysis, and statistical consulting. Dr. Harel received his post-doctoral training at the University of Washington, Dept of Biostatistics. r. Harel has served as a biostatistical consultant nationally and internationally since 1997. Through his collaborative consulting, Dr. Harel has been involved with a variety of research fields including, but not limited to Alzheimer’s, diabetes, nutrition, HIV/AIDS, and alcohol and drug abuse prevention. |
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Yawen Guan, Assistant Professor at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln
Yawen Guan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at University of Nebraska - Lincoln. Prior to joining UNL, She spent two years at SAMSI/NC State University as a postdoctoral fellow developing spatiotemporal methods for air quality, and emulation-calibration methods for the Artic sea ice.
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Brian Reich, Distinguished Professor of Statistics, North Carolina State University
Brian completed his PhD in Biostatistics in 2005 at the University of Minnesota. After graduation, he joined NCSU first as a post-doc and then as a member of the statistics faculty in 2008. His research interests include spatial statistics, extreme value analysis, variable selection and dimension reduction. In addition to these methodological interests, Brian applies these methods to environmental areas such as ecology, air pollution, and climate change, as well as data from the physical and materials sciences. |
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Veronica Berrocal, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at UC, Irvine
Veronica is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Irvine. She joined UC Irvine in Fall 2019, after having spent 9 years on the faculty at the University of Michigan in the Department of Biostatistics.
Veronica obtained her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington in 2007 and spent 3 years in the Research Triangle Park area in North Carolina, as a National Research Council postdoc at EPA, first, (2007-2008) and a postdoc at Duke University/SAMSI until 2010.
Veronica's research interests are in spatial and spatio-temporal statistics, with a focus on applications in atmospheric/geophysical sciences, environmental health, social determinants of health, health disparities, and imaging. |
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Howard Chang, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Emory University
Howard is an Associate Professor in the Department of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Emory University. Howard joined Emory in 2011 after completing a 2-year SAMSI Postdoctoral Fellowship. Howard works on developing statistical methods for the analysis of complex spatial-temporal environmental exposure and health data. |
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Past Virtual Office Hours
Tuesday, November 19th 2019. CCD had mid-career and advanced-career "experts" on hand to answer your career questions such as:
- How does the interview process works for an academic faculty position? (Hint: they usually last TWO ENTIRE DAYS!)
- How do you position yourself for a promotion in a pharmaceutical company?
- How do you handle interpersonal work conflict?
- How do you find a mentor/coach/sponsor?
- What GS level you should apply to for a government job?
Join us at our Virtual Office Hours to ask these and all your career development and job-seeking questions.
Holding office hours on the 19th:
Jessica Kim, Lead Mathematical Statistician, CDER/FDA
Seonjin Kim, Assistant Professor, Miami University
Bob Small, Consulting Statistician, RDS Consulting and former Global Head of Biostatistics- Sanofi-Pasteur