Karen Kafadar

Dr. Kafadar is James H. Rudy Professor of Statistics and Physics at Indiana University. She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from Stanford and her Ph.D. in Statistics from Princeton. Her research focuses on exploratory data analysis, robust methods, statistical graphics, characterization of uncertainty in quantitative studies, and analysis of experimental data in the physical, chemical, biological, and engineering sciences.

Prior to Indiana University, she was Professor and Chancellor's Scholar in the Departments of Mathematics and Preventive Medicine & Biometrics at the University of Colorado-Denver; Fellow at the National Cancer Institute (Cancer screening section); and Mathematical Statistician at Hewlett Packard Company (R&D laboratory for RF/Microwave test equipment) and at National Institute of Standards and Technology where she worked on problems of measurement accuracy and uncertainty, experimental design, and data analysis. She also has consulted extensively on projects for industry and government, and has held visiting appointments at University of Bath, Virginia Tech, and Iowa State University.

She has served on previous NRC committees and chaired the National Academies' Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics. She also serves on the editorial boards for several professional journals as Editor or Associate Editor and on the governing boards for the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the International Statistical Institute. She is an Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the International Statistical Institute, has authored over 90 journal articles and book chapters, and has advised numerous M.S. and Ph.D. students.