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THE ORANGE COUNTY/LONG BEACH CHAPTER OF THE ASA (OCLBASA)


The primary purpose of the Orange County/Long Beach Chapter (OCLBASA) shall be to sponsor educational, professional, and scientific activities that benefit professional statisticians and students of statistics in the Orange County/Long Beach area. In parallel, this Chapter will devote itself to fostering the growth and development of the area’s statistical community and developing collaborative relationships with other scientific and educational organizations. Furthermore, this Chapter will work to develop a greater level of statistical awareness in the general public. Finally, as a chartered member of the American Statistical Association (ASA), this Chapter shall share the purposes of the ASA as defined in the Association's Constitution. 

Click here to view or download the Orange County/Long Beach Chapter's Constitution.  Also, see Mission Statements. 
CHAPTER ANNOUNCEMENTS

Call for Nomination for 2023 Robert Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter award

We are pleased to announce the 2023 Robert Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter award call for nominations!

This award was established in 2018, and since then, we have given this award to five recipients. You can see the announcement of the most recent recipient on our chapter's website (https://community.amstat.org/oclb/home ). As you know, the primary purpose of the Chapter is to sponsor educational, professional, and scientific activities that benefit professional statisticians and students of statistics in the Orange County/Long Beach area with the mission to promote activities related to statistics in the statistical community development, career development, and academic betterment. We conduct many events throughout the year to promote academic discussions and networking. We are pleased to announce that the Executive Committee and Leadership Council want to recognize a Chapter member who has contributed to the Chapter's mission. The Award Nomination Committee would like to solicit nominations from the Chapter members for the Robert Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter award. The eligibility, nomination, and selection criteria are detailed in the attached resolution. Please follow the procedure from the attached resolution while submitting a nomination.

Please include the following in your nomination communication to us:

Full Name of the Nominator:

Email address of the Nominator:

Full Name of the Nominee:

Rationale or Justification for the Nomination:

Due by March 31, 2023

Please send your nominations only to Khriss Toto Pacioles, Chair of the Nominations and Elections Committee (toto@chapman.edu) and Jihao Zhou, President of the Chapter (jihao_zhou@yahoo.com), who are also copied on this email, no later than March 31st. The 2023 Robert L. Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter award recipient will be announced at our Q2 Meeting on April 28, 2023. 

OCLB_Fellow_and_Services_Awards_Resolution-Draft_Sep2021.pdf

 

2021 OCLBASA Robert L. Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter 

The 2021 OCLBASA Robert L. Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter Awardee is...

Dr. Michael Fahy


Dr. Michael Fahy

Dr. Michael Fahy has been an active member of the chapter since 2012. Dr. Fahy may be considered a founding member of the chapter, as he has been instrumental in the chapter's progress and many successes. Michael Fahy is a computer scientist and a mathematician, and though he does not identify himself as a statistician, he continuously supports our statistical community in many ways.

Dr. Michael Fahy has been instrumental in the success of many of our events in the past eight years. He has continuously helped the chapter immensely, especially in helping the chapter have our significant events hosted at Chapman University. Without Dr. Fahy, we would not have had the opportunity to successfully hold events such as Careers' Day, the High School Statistics Poster Competition, and some of our quarterly meetings at Chapman University. Dr. Fahy has always generously given his time, access to resources, and his leadership skills to help the chapter succeed in our events. Dr. Fahy has been very supportive of all the events organized by the OCLBASA chapter. For that, we are genuinely grateful for his support of the chapter.

Dr. Fahy is also the reason Orange County has its own Data Fest. Though Data Fest is a college-hosted event, our chapter is an integral part of it, as it is an American Statistical Association event. Dr. Fahy has annually single-handedly organized Data Fest in the past years and is continuously leading this initiative.

Moreover, Dr. Fahy has consistently supported the chapter by promoting our events to the students and faculty at Chapman University and members of other organizations that he is also an active member and officer. His actions have provided our chapter with a growing number of members from academia and the industry.

For all these reasons, I believe that Dr. Michael Fahy has made significant and valuable contributions that genuinely embody the chapter concerning community development, career development, and academic development. Dr. Michael Fahy truly deserves to be the recipient of the 2021 OCLBASA Robert L. Newcomb's Fellow of the Chapter award. Congratulations, Dr. Michael Fahy! 


NOTE:

The Robert L. Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter Award was established in 2017 through the efforts of our most recent past president, Dr. Gajanan Bhat. The Fellow of the Chapter is named after the first president of the OCLBASA Chapter, Dr. Robert “Bob” L. Newcomb. The Robert L. Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter Award aims to recognize outstanding member contributions toward the Chapter’s Mission.

Below is a list of the past awardees of the Robert L. Newcomb Fellow of the Chapter:
1. Dr. Thomas Lin (awarded in January 2018)
2. Dr. Madeline Bauer (awarded in January 2019)
3. Mr. Harry Hiner (awarded in December 2019)
4. Dr. Gajanan Bhat (awarded in December 2020)
5. Dr. Michael Fahy (awarded in May 2022) 



OCLBASA Online Practice Interview Program
We are launching our Chapter's newest program: Online Practice Interviews. These interviews are based on the popular mock interviews at the Chapter's annual Careers Day for several years. We are offering three kinds of interviews.
  • An interview based on one of three mock job descriptions (in Biostatistics, Business Analytics, and Data Science),
  • If an interviewee is seeking a specific position and can provide the associated job description, we shall work to arrange an online practice interview based on that job description.
  • If an interviewee is simply interested in one of a variety of professional roles in which statisticians are frequently employed and wants to learn more about the nature of that work, we shall work to arrange a conversation with someone with experience in at least one of those roles.
We have volunteer interviewers from Data Science, Biostatistics, Business Analytics, and Market Research.

If you can benefit from such an interview, please submit your request at
https://www.hinerpartners.com/surveys/ASAAAP/login.html

Volunteers support all Chapter activities. If you or someone you know would be willing to volunteer as an online practice interviewer, please have that person complete our Online Interview Volunteer Survey at

https://www.hinerpartners.com/surveys/ASAVAP/login.html


UPCOMING EVENTS
  • Q1 Meeting March 3, 2023, @ The Duck Club, Irvine, CA (6 PM--9 PM)
  • High School Statistics Poster Competition April 1, 2023, @ CSU Fullerton (8 AM to 1 PM)
  • Q2 Meeting April 28, 2023, @ The Duck Club, Irvine, CA (6 PM--9 PM) (Tentative)
  • Q3 Meeting July 21, 2023, @ The Duck Club, Irvine, CA (6 PM--9 PM) (Tentative)
  • OC Biostatistics Symposium Fall 2023 @ TBD (Tentative)
  • Q4 Meeting November 4, 2023, @ The Duck Club, Irvine, CA (6 PM--9 PM) (Tentative)


CHAPTER SECTIONS

Section on Biopharmaceutical Statistics

OCLBASA is proud to establish a new section that focuses on the activities involved with biopharmaceutical statistics in the Chapter.  The purpose of this section is to sponsor educational, professional and scientific activities as they relate to statistics, statistical analysis, and data science in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and diagnostics, and other life science areas.  The Section will strive to collaborate with industry partners for the mutual benefit of exchanging knowledge and expertise and to bring awareness to the Chapter of the use of statistics and data science in these areas.

The Section consists of a Chair and a committee.  The composition of the current Committee is below:

Chair: Gajanan Bhat

Members: Thomas Lin, Xinping Cui, Jihao Zhou, Pamela Hsu, Kitty Guo, Weixin Yao 


Section on Statistical Education

The American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Statistical Education states "This section is broadly interested in the effective use of education as a means of improving the quality of existing applications of statistics and increasing the use of statistics in those areas of study where it offers the most efficient procedure for attacking unsolved problems".

The Orange County/Long Beach Chapter Section on Statistical Education has been formed to offer an opportunity for Chapter members and others who share an interest in statistical education to interact with one another regarding this topic. Within the Chapter Section, Special Interest Groups (SIGs) will be formed to facilitate activities within a more focused topic area and thereby better serve the needs and interests of subgroups of statisticians and teachers of statistics in the Orange County/Long Beach area.

Special Interest Groups:
Teaching Statistics in High Schools
Teaching Statistics in Community Colleges
Teaching Statistics in Liberal Arts Colleges/Universities

CAREER OPPORTUNITIES 
  • Multiple Opportunities for Statisticians at the FDA Center for Devices and Radiological Health

The position description can be found via this link: DCEA_II_BioStat_Opportunities_2023. 

If interested in the position, contact Bridgette R. Stein at FDA, Division of Clinical Evidence and Analysis 2, 10903 New Hampshire Ave., Silver Spring, MD, 20993 (e-mail: bridgette.stein@fda.hhs.gov).

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