There is a need for instructors of data science, survey methodology and statistics at the 2016 PSI Asia-Pacific Summer Institute for Data Science, Survey Methodology and Interdisciplinary Statistics (
PSI Asia-Pacific) to be held in Seoul, South Korea from July 4 to July 29, 2016 for university students and professionals across Asia-Pacific. Find details in the PSI website,
http://www.the-psi.org The PSI International Working Group requests your
pro bono instruction for students and professionals particularly from Asia-Pacific countries in transition. The Working Group consists of PSI founding members of American Association for Public Opinion Research, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Evaluation Association, World Association for Public Opinion Research, and European Survey Research Association as well as members of Statistics without Borders (SWB) of American Statistical Association.
Instruction for the 4-week-long PSI Asia-Pacific courses is modeled after the 68-years old Summer Institute at the University of Michigan, a renowned international training program of survey methodology, as well as Joint Program in Survey Methodology of University of Maryland. PSI target beneficiaries are Asia-Pacific graduate students and professionals who would benefit from survey methodology and statistical training that involves fundamental and advanced courses. The courses to teach include: sampling theory and applications, advanced statistics, data science, survey methodology, census methods, questionnaire design, computer-assisted collection and analysis of survey data, business survey methodology, health survey statistics, education survey methodology, R statistical computing, data visualization, big data analytics and statistical use of administrative records. English is the official language of instruction.
Room and board will be provided to instructors, but instructors will need to cover most of their travel cost unless supported by their affiliated institutions. If interested, please contact Mr. Gary Shapiro (
g.shapiro4@live.com), Past Chair of Statistics without Borders (2010-2012); Mr. Justin Fisher (
FisherJS@gmail.com), Immediate Past Chair of Statistics without Borders (2012-2014); or Dr. Asaph Young Chun (
YChun2@gmail.com), PSI Director and Chair of the PSI international working group. Indicate what topic(s) you might cover in a course and how long (e.g., 2 to 4 weeks) you would be able to teach. Please send a short cover letter and a resume/CV
no later than Nov 30, 2015.
For more information, please check out the
FAQ as well as the list of
PSI courses taught in the launching year of 2012.
PSI Advisory Board
(Preeminent scholars of science, survey statistics, medicine and inter-disciplinary research)
- Peter Agre, Professor at Johns Hopkins; Nobel laureate in Chemistry
- Lord David Alton, British Parliament
- Malcolm Gillis, President of Rice University (1993 - 2004)
- Norman Neureiter, First Science and Technology Adviser to the U.S. Secretary of State (2000); Senior Adviser to Center for Science Diplomacy and Acting Director of Center for Science, Technology & Security Policy, American Association for the Advancement of Science;
- Chan-Mo Park, President of Pohang University of Science and Technology/POSTECH (2003 - 2007); Senior Adviser to President of the Republic of Korea (South Korea) in Science and Technology (2008-2009)
- Stuart Thorson, Donald P. and Margaret Curry Gregg Professor of Political Science and International Relations, Syracuse University
PSI International Working Group
(The PSI International Working Group plans and implements the PSI Asia-Pacific Summer Institute in the five areas: faculty recruitment & training, curriculum design, research & grants development, educational software and hardware acquisition, and diversity management. They are members of American Statistical Association, American Association for Public Opinion Research, American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Evaluation Association, World Association for Public Opinion Research, and European Survey Research Association.)
- Ms. Sunny Bak, Independent Consultant, Oregon; PSI faculty
- Professor Annelies Blom, Assistant Professor at the University of Mannheim, Germany; PSI faculty
- Dr. Woody Carter, University of Chicago; PSI faculty
- Professor Dongseok Choi, Department of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Oregon Health & Science University
- Professor James Cochran, Applied Statistics and the Rogers-Spivey Faculty Fellow, University of Alabama
- Professor Jeff Gill, Department of Political Science and Department of Biostatistics, Washington University
- Professor Jennifer Greene, University of Illinois; President of the American Evaluation Association (2011)
- Dr. Mark Griffin, Director of the Australian Development Agency for Statistics and Information Systems, Australia; PSI faculty
- Professor Dominique Joye, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
- Professor Sunghee Lee, Joint Program in Survey Methodology, University of Michigan
- Ms. Yena Lee, Princeton University; PSI Assistant Director
- Dr. Hubert Palumer, Principal at Goss Gilroy Inc., Canada
- Dr. Jacquelyn Pennings, Biostatistician, Elite Research, LLC, Texas: PSI faculty
- Dr. Rene Paulson, CEO and Senior Statistician, Elite Research, LLC, Texas; PSI Assistant Director
- Mr. Gary Shapiro, former Mathematical Statistician, U.S. Census Bureau; Chair of ASA Statistics without Borders (2010-2012)
- Professor Duncan Thomas, Director of the Biostatistics Division, and Verna R. Richter Chair in Cancer Research, University of Southern California
- Ms. Pinar Ucar, Statistical specialist at the Qatar Statistics Authority; PSI faculty
- Dr. Chirstof Wolf, Scientific Director of GESIS, Leibniz-Institute for the Social Sciences; Professor of Sociology, Manheim University
- Ms. Elena Zafarana, Senior statistician at the Swiss Federal Statistical Office; PSI faculty
- Co-Chair: Mr. Justin Fisher, Senior Statistician, US Government Accountability Office; Chair of ASA Statistics without Borders (2012-2014); PSI faculty
- Chair: Dr. Asaph Young Chun, PSI Asia-Pacific Director; Associate Editor of Journal of Official Statistics - Statistics Sweden