Trent D. Buskirk, Ph.D., Professor and Provost Data Science Fellow, School of Data Science, Old Dominion University

 

 

Trent D. Buskirk, Ph.D. is a Professor and Provost Data Science Fellow, School of Data Science at Old Dominion University. Prior to this appointment, Trent was the Novak Family Distinguished Professor of Data Science and outgoing Chair of the Applied Statistics and Operations Research Department at Bowling Green State University. Dr. Buskirk is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and his research interests include big data quality, recruitment methods through social media, the use of big data and data science methods for health, social and survey science design and analysis, and in data centric AI and fairness and explainability in AI models. Trent has also been involved in various professional organizations serving as the President of the Midwest Association for Public Opinion Research in 2016, the Conference Chair for AAPOR in 2018 and a member of the scientific committee for the BigSurv series of conferences since 2018. Trent as also served as an Associate Editor (Methods) for the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology. Specialties: Prompt Engineering for Social Sciences Education and Coding, Statistics, sampling design and weighting, survey methodology, modern technology for data collection, smartphone and mobile surveys, teaching and instruction in statistics, consulting, data mining techniques and machine learning and data science. See Profile