Dear all,
The National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS) is proud to sponsor another virtual career fair this Friday, May 22 from 12-1pm ET. This virtual career fair will be the third fair themed around careers for statisticians in government, highlighting roles and career opportunities at the Energy Information Administration (EIA), National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), and CDC's National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS).
The career fair is for students of all levels and faculty who may be interested in learning about career opportunities at these agencies. It may also be of interest to those who are considering a career change to work in these or other government agencies.
To be eligible to register for the virtual career fair, your organization needs to be a NISS affiliate. (Please check the list of NISS affiliates to see if your organization is a NISS affiliate.) If you qualify to register, please use your .edu, .gov or .com email address to register using this link: Register for NISS Zoom Webinar
Dean Follmann is Chief of the Biostatistics Research Branch at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), a role he has held for the past 16 years. He has authored or co-authored more than 250 peer-reviewed research articles and received numerous awards, including the Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Award for Distinguished Service, the Best Paper in Biometrics 2009, and is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2003. He serves on committees and advisory boards for the US Food and Drug Administration, the National Institutes of Health, and academic departments. Current research interests focus on statistical methods related to vaccinology. https://www.niaid.nih.gov/about/brb-staff-follmann
Greg Lawson has been with the U.S. Energy Information Administration for four years, where he works as an operations research analyst primarily studying residential energy consumption, and he has also spent time studying wholesale electricity markets. Prior to joining EIA, Greg was at Thomson Reuters studying and modeling wholesale electricity markets, and before that he was in academia researching atmospheric science, methods of state estimation, and predictability in nonlinear dynamic systems. He even spent time as a research scientist studying the weather and climate on Mars.
Jennifer Parker is the Director of the Division of Research and Methodology at the National Center for Health Statistics. Her research interests concern relating socioeconomic status, air pollution, and birth weight of infants. Jennifer completed her Ph.D. in biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley, and did postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Francisco. She also holds a position as adjunct research professor in the Department of Applied Environmental Health of the University of Maryland School of Public Health. Jennifer has served as the president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics in 2010 has also been elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2017.
On behalf of the NISS affiliates committee,
Nathan Cruze
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Nathan B. Cruze, Ph.D.
Mathematical Statistician
USDA NASS Research and Development Division
Sampling and Estimation Research Section
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