Caucus of Academic Representatives

The purpose of this caucus is to promote the statistics discipline within the academic community and provide resources for academic statisticians to successfully advocate for the discipline. In particular, the caucus will do the following:

  • Provide assistance to academic departments offering degrees in statistics or biostatistics
  • Provide a venue for discussion of issues affecting departments and programs in statistics and biostatistics
  • Facilitate interaction between faculty at different institutions, especially between those at research departments and undergraduate institutions
  • Identify and collect data that are helpful for heads/chairs in dealing with their administrations and function as a repository for such data
  • Arrange a yearly meeting of the members of this group (Caucus of Academic Representatives)
  • Arrange a yearly workshop for department chairs and heads
  • Promote the statistics profession

The Caucus of Academic Representatives is intended to be inclusive of all academics with an interest in promoting statistics, biostatistics, or other areas that deal with the development of similar methodologies, even if a different name is used. The term statistics (with or without the specific inclusion of biostatistics) is meant to include all these categories.

Join the Caucus

To join the Caucus of Academic Representatives, please contact Ron Wasserstein.

2022–2023 Officers
Chair:
Josée Dupuis
McGill University Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences
2022–2023
Past Chair:
Bo Li
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign 
2022–2023
Chair-elect:
Dan Nettleton
Iowa State University 
2022–2023
PhD Statistics Dept.:
Dennis Lin
Purdue University
2021–2024
PhD Biostatistics Dept.:
Jason Roy
Rutgers University
2020–2023
Other PhD:
Jeff Buzas
University of Vermont
2020–2023
Non-PhD Dept.:
Katie St. Clair
Carleton College  
2022–2025
Districts 1-3:
Tian Zheng
Columbia University
2021–2024
Districts 4-5:
Walter Ambrosius,
Wake Forest University
2020–2023
District 6:
Helen Zhang
University of Arizona 
2022–2025
Secretary/Treasurer:
Heather Bush
University of Kentucky
2020–2023