COPSS (Committee of the Presidents of Statistical Societies) and NISS have come together to organize and host a new webinar series focusing on leadership in statistics and data science. Plan to attend these webinars every month during the academic year!
The COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar Series is co-organized by the Committee of the Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Emerging Leaders in Statistics and the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). The purpose of the webinar series is to promote leadership skills for members of the statistical societies at any stage in their careers. The series features conversations with leaders throughout the discipline, including leaders from major academic and government institutions, and companies. Invited speakers share their leadership stories and answer questions about their experiences. Each webinar is moderated by a member of the COPSS Emerging Leaders in Statistics program.
Upcoming Schedule
Mark your calendars for upcoming webinars on these dates. Check back here for more information, or stay up to date by signing up for NISS Newsletter!
(Free webinars, pre-registration required)
Date: April 29, 2025, 12pm-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Panelists: David Donoho, Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor of Humanities and Sciences Professor of Statistics, Stanford University and Michael I. Jordan, Pehong Chen Distinguished Professor Emeritus, Department of EECS & Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley. Moderator: Tracy Ke, Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard University
Leadership in Statistics and Societal Impact
Date: May 19, 2025, 12pm-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Panelists: Sir Bernard Silverman FRS, Emeritus Professor of Statistics in the University of Oxford and Dr. Peter Song, Professor of Biostatistics, Ann Arbor School of Public Health, University of Michigan. Moderator: Dr. Anru Zhang, Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics and Department of Computer Science, Duke University
Previous COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinars
COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar Series Playlist
Full Recordings available on the NISS Communications YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLoRtupvDJTjvFukMcO6NfDr0GvxDsIj81
COPSS-NISS Leadership Webinar: Leadership in Statistical Research: Pivoting for Impact and Success | National Institute of Statistical Sciences
Date: Thursday, March 27, 2025, 12pm-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Panelists: Qi Long, Ph.D., Professor of Biostatistics, Statistics and Data Science, and Computer and Information Science; Associate Director for Quantitative Data Science, Abramson Cancer Center; Associate Director, Institute for Biomedical Informatics, University of Pennsylvania and Nicole Lazar, PhD, Department Head and Professor of Statistics at Penn State University; Moderator: Sandra Safo, PhD, Associate Professor, Division of Biostatistics & Health Data Science, University of Minnesota
Making an Impact on Public Health Through Statistical Leadership
Date: February 25, 2025, 12pm-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Panelists: Bhramar Mukherjee, PhD (Senior Associate Dean of Public Health Data Science and Data Equity; Anna M.R Lauder Professor of Biostatistics; Professor of Epidemiology (Chronic Diseases) and of Statistics and Data Science at Yale School of Public Health) and Thomas Fleming, PhD (Professor and former Chair, Department of Biostatistics, University of Washington; Member of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center). Moderator: Jennifer Bobb, PhD (Associate Investigator at Kaiser Permanente, Washington Health Research Institute, and Affiliate Associate Professor of Biostatistics at the University of Washington).
Leadership in Communication of Statistics
Date: Thursday, February 6, 2025, 12pm-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Speakers: Francesca Dominici, Clarence James Gamble Professor of Biostatistics, Population, and Data Science at Harvard University and David Spiegelhalter, Emeritus Professor of Statistics at the University of Cambridge; Moderator: Daniele Durante, Associate Professor of Statistics, Department of Decision Sciences at Bocconi University
Leadership at the Intersection of Causal Inference and Interdisciplinarity
Date: Tuesday, December 3, 2024, 12-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Speakers: Mark van der Laan, Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley and Elizabeth Stuart, Frank Hurley and Catharine Dorrier Chair and Bloomberg Professor of American Health in the Department of Biostatistics at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, with joint appointments in the Department of Mental Health and the Department of Health Policy and Management; Moderator: Shu Yang, Associate Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University
Leadership at the Intersection of Statistics and Psychometrics
Date: Tuesday, November 26, 2024, 12-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Speakers: Dr. Steven Andrew Culpepper (UIUC, president-elect of the Psychometric Society and Co-Editor of Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics) and Dr. Sandip Sinharay (Educational Testing Service, and the current Editor of Psychometrika and the previous editor for the Journal of Educational Measurement and the Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics); Moderator: Gongjun Xu (Statistics at and Director of Applied Statistics Master's Program at University of Michigan, and Co-Editor, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics)
Leadership in Linking Statistical Theory and Scientific Inquiry
Date: Tuesday, October 29, 2024, 12-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Speakers: Dr. Michael Kosorok, Department of Biostatistics and Department of Statistics & Operations Research, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Dr. Daniela Witten, Department of Statistics and Department of Biostatistics at University of Washington; Moderator: Dr. Anru Zhang, Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics and Department of Computer Science, Duke University
Leadership in Data Science, Machine Learning and AI
Date: Tuesday, September 24, 2024, 12-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Speakers: Bin Yu (Statistics and of Electrical Engineering & Computer Sciences, University of California at Berkeley) and Arnaud Doucet (Statistics at Oxford University and Google DeepMind) ; Moderator: Edgar Dobriban (Statistics and Data Science and Computer and Information Science at University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Medicine)
Leadership in Translational Statistical Research
Date: Friday, April 30, 2024, 12-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Speakers: Sherri Rose (Health Policy Data Science Lab at Stanford University), and Taki Shinohara, (University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine); Moderator: Jeff Goldsmith (Columbia University Mailman School of Public Health)
Leadership at the Intersection of Statistics & Genomics
Date: Friday, March 29, 2024, 12-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Speakers: Rafael Irizarry, (Dana-Farber Cancer Institute / Harvard University), Mingyao Li, (University of Pennsylvania), Moderator: Jingyi Jessica Li, (University of California, Los Angeles)
Leadership in Statistical Methods for Electronic Health Records Data
Date: Tuesday, November 28, 2023, 12-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Panelists: Rebecca Hubbard (UPenn Medicine), Dandan Liu (VUMC), Moderator: Yates Colbey (Kaiser Permanente Washington Health Research Institute)
Leadership at the Intersection of Tech & Academia
Date: Tuesday, October 17, 2023, 12-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Panelists: Barbara Engelhardt (Stanford University), Natesh Pillai (LinkedIn), Moderator: Lorin Crawford (Microsoft)
Leadership in National Scientific Societies
Date: Tuesday, September 19, 2023, 12-1pm ET/9-10am PT
Panelists: Lance Waller (Emory), Tom Louis (Johns Hopkins & Former AAAS Statistics Chair), Moderator: Natalie Dean (Emory)
Date: Friday, April 28, 2023, 12-1 pm ET / 9-10 am PT
Panelists: Denice Ross, (U.S. Chief Data Scientist) and Robert L. Santos, (Director, U.S. Census Bureau), Moderator: Claire Bowen (Urban Institute)
Leadership in Statistical Research
Date: Tuesday, March 28, 2023, 12-1 pm ET / 9-10 am PT
Panelists: Susan Murphy (Harvard), Trevor Hastie (Stanford), Moderator: Lingzhou Xue (Penn State)
Date: Tuesday, February 28, 2023, 12-1 pm ET / 9-10 am PT
Panelists: Patrick Ball (HRDAG), Melody Goodman (New York University), Mary Gray (American University), Moderator: Kristian Lum (University of Chicago)
Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2023, 12-1 pm ET / 9-10 am PT
Panelists: Sally Morton (Arizona State), Ronald Brookmeyer (UCLA), Moderator: Natalie Dean (Emory)
Organizing Committee
Lorin Crawford, Microsoft
Amita Manatunga, Emory University, COPSS
Natalie Dean, Emory University, COPSS Leadership Academy
Megan Glenn, NISS
Mary Ryan, Yale University
Planned Schedule: 12pm - 1pm ET/9am PT every month during the academic year.