NISS Leadership Committees

Charge to the NISS Committees (Last Update: 1/15/24)

Current Members

 

NISS Executive Leadership Committee

Marcus Berzofsky

NISS Position:
Chair, 2026-2027, Elected Board of Trustees Member
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Senior Research Statistician
Organization:
RTI International

Emily Taylor

NISS Position:
Vice Chair, 2026-2027, Elected Board of Trustees Member
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Scientist & Deputy Group Leader, CCS-6, Statistical Sciences
Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Huixia Judy Wang

NISS Position:
Elected Board of Trustees Member
Term Expiration:
2026 Jun 30
Title:
Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics; William Marsh Rice Trustee Professor in Data Science
Organization:
Rice University

Nancy McMillan

NISS Position:
Elected Board of Trustees Member
Term Expiration:
2026 Jun 30
Title:
Data Science Research Leader, Health Research & Analytics Business Line
Organization:
Battelle

Alyson G. Wilson

NISS Position:
Executive Committee Member
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Vice Provost for Research
Organization:
William & Mary

 

Ron Wasserstein

NISS Position:
Appointed to the Board of Trustees and Member of the NISS Corporation by the President of the American Statistical Association (ASA)
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Executive Director
Organization:
American Statistical Association

Ana-Maria Staicu

NISS Position:
Appointed to the Board of Trustees and Member of the NISS Corporation by the Chancellor of North Carolina State University
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Professor of Statistics
Organization:
North Carolina State University

Julia L. Sharp

NISS Position:
Appointed to the Board of Trustees and Member of the NISS Corporation by the President of the Western North American Region of The International Biometric Society (WNAR)
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Mathematical Statistician, Applied and Computational Statistics Group
Organization:
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Qi Long

NISS Position:
Appointed to the Board of Trustees and Member of the NISS Corporation by the Chair of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS)
Term Expiration:
2028 Jun 30
Title:
Professor of Biostatistics, Joint Appointments in Departments of Computer and Information Science at the School of Engineering and Applied Science and in the Department of Statistics and Data Science at The Wharton School
Organization:
University of Pennsylvania the Perelman School of Medicine

David Matteson (Ex-Officio)

Title:
Director
Organization:
NISS

Randy Freret (Ex-Officio, NISS)

Title:
Sr. Executive Assistant; Board of Trustees Secretary
Organization:
NISS
 

 

NISS Affiliates Steering Committee

Nancy McMillan

NISS Position:
Chair, Affiliates Committee
Member, AI, Statistics & Data Science in Practice Planning Committee
Title:
Data Science Research Leader, Health Research & Analytics Business Line
Organization:
Battelle

Joel Dubin

NISS Position:
CANSSI-NISS Liaison
Title:
Professor of Statistics
Organization:
University of Waterloo

Will Wei Sun

NISS Position:
Chair, AI StAtIstics & Data Science in Practice Committee 
Title:
Associate Professor of Quantitative Methods and Statistics
Organization:
Purdue University

Hongyuan Cao

NISS Position:
Vice Chair, AI, Statistics & Data Science in Practice Committee
Title:
Professor, Department of Statistics
Organization:
Florida State University

Yijun "Frank" Wei

NISS Position:
Member, AI, Statistics & Data Science in Practice Committee
Title:
Senior AI/ML Scientist
Organization:
General Motors

Victor Lo

NISS Position:
Member, AI, Statistics & Data Science in Practice Planning Committee
Title:
Head of Data Science & Artificial Intelligence, Workplace Investing, Fidelity Investments
Organization:
Fidelity Investments

Whitney Huang

NISS Position:
Member, AI, Statistics & Data Science in Practice Committee
Title:
Associate Professor, Mathematics & Statistical Sciences
Organization:
Clemson University
 
Grace Deng
 
NISS Position:
Member, AI, Statistics & Data Science in Practice Committee
Title:
Data Scientist
Organization:
Google

George Rodriguez

NISS Position:
Member, AI, Statistics & Data Science in Practice Committee
Title:
Computational Research Chief Scientist
Organization:
ExxonMobil

Jianghu (James) Dong

NISS Position:
Steering Committee, New Researchers Network
Title:
Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Biostatistics; Assistant Professor, UNMC Internal Medicine Division of Nephrology
Organization:
University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)

Sahar Zangeneh

NISS Position:
New Researchers Network Committee
Title:
Senior Research Statistician
Organization:
Cascade Insights LLC

Sharmistha Guha

NISS Position:
Academic Planning and Recruitment Subcommittee & New Researchers Network Steering Committee
Title:
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Organization:
Texas A&M University

Samuel Wang

NISS Position:
Academic Planning and Recruitment Subcommittee & New Researchers Network CoLab Committee
Title:
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Organization:
Cornell University

Marcus Berzofsky 

NISS Position:
Government Sector Co-chair
Title:
Senior Research Statistician
Organization:
RTI International

David Matteson (Ex-Officio, NISS)

Title:
Director
Organization:
NISS

Megan Glenn (Ex-Officio, NISS)

Title:
Communications & Events Coordinator
Organization:
NISS
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

 

NISS New Researchers Network Leadership Committee

Hannah Waddel

NISS Position:
Executive Committee, New Researchers Network
Title:
Postdoc
Organization:
Los Alamos National Laboratory

Jason B. Cho

NISS Position:
Executive Committee, New Researchers Network
Title:
PhD Student, Statistics & Data Science
Organization:
Cornell University

Georgia Smits

NISS Position:
Executive Committee, New Researchers Network
Title:
Postdoc, Statistics
Organization:
University of Washington

Sharmistha Guha

NISS Position:
Steering Committee, New Researchers Network
Title:
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Organization:
Texas A&M University

Samuel Wang

NISS Position:
Steering Committee, New Researchers Network
Title:
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Organization:
Cornell University

Jianghu (James) Dong

NISS Position:
Steering Committee, New Researchers Network
Title:
Assistant Professor, UNMC Department of Biostatistics; Assistant Professor, UNMC Internal Medicine Division of Nephrology
Organization:
University of Nebraska Medical Center (UNMC)

Sahar Zangeneh 

NISS Position:
Steering Committee, New Researchers Network
Title:
Senior Research Statistician
Organization:
Cascade Insights LLC

Megan Glenn (Ex-Officio, NISS)

Title:
Communications & Events Coordinator
Organization:
NISS

 

Awards & Nominations Leadership Committee

Gabriel Huerta

NISS Position:
Chair, Awards and Nominations Committee
Term Expiration:
2026 Jun 30
Title:
Statistician
Organization:
Sandia National Labratory

Dan Nettleton

NISS Position:
Appointed to the Board of Trustees and Member of the NISS Corporation by the Chair of the Section U, American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Laurence H. Baker Chair; Distinguished Professor and Chair
Organization:
Iowa State University

Mimi Kim

NISS Position:
Awards and Nominations Committee 
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Professor, Department of Epidemiology & Population Health (Biostatistics)
Organization:
Albert Einstein College of Medicine

Jerry Reiter

NISS Position:
Appointed to the Board of Trustees and Member of the NISS Corporation by the President of Duke University
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Professor of Statistical Science
Organization:
Duke University

Karen Kafadar

NISS Position:
Member, Awards and Nominations Committee
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Professor of Statistics, College of Arts and Sciences
Organization:
University of Virginia

Gabriel Huerta

NISS Position:
Member, Awards and Nominations Committee
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Statistician
Organization:
Sandia National Labratory

 

 

 

NISS Finance Leadership Committee

Ron Wasserstein

NISS Position:
Appointed to the Board of Trustees and
Member of the NISS Corporation by the
President of the American Statistical
Association (ASA)
Term Expiration:
2026 Jun 30
Title:
Executive Director
Organization:
American Statistical Association

Mary Batcher

NISS Position:
NISS Finance Committee
Term Expiration:
2026 Jun 30
Title:
Executive Director
Organization:
BDS Data Analytics

 

Ed Cohen

NISS Position:
NISS Finance Committee
Term Expiration:
2026 Jun 30
Title:
Senior Manager - Quantiative Economics and Statistics
Organization:
Ernst & Young

Tim Hesterberg

NISS Position:
Vice Chair, 2023-2024, Elected Board of Trustees Member
Term Expiration:
2026 Jun 30
Title:
Staff Data Scientist
Organization:
Instacart

Alyson G. Wilson

NISS Position:
Executive Committee Member
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Vice Provost for Research
Organization:
William & Mary

David Matteson (Ex-Officio, NISS)

Title:
Director
Organization:
NISS

 

Statistics Serving Society (S3) Forums Leadership Committee 

Wendy Martinez (Chair)

NISS Position:
Chair, IOF Committee 
Term Expiration:
2026 Jun 30
Title:
Mathematical Statistician
Organization:
US Census Bureau

Claire Kelling

NISS Position:
IOF Committee Liaison
Term Expiration:
2026 Jun 30
Title:
Assistant Professor of Statistics
Organization:
Carleton College

David L. Banks

NISS Position:
IOF Committee Liaison
Term Expiration:
2026 Jun 30
Title:
Professor of Statistics
Organization:
Duke University

Ariel Aloe

NISS Position:
IOF Committee Liaison
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Professor of Educational Measurement and Statistics
Organization:
University of Iowa

Shili Lin

NISS Position:
IOF Committee Liaison
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Professor of Statistics
Organization:
Ohio State University

Hongmei Jiang

NISS Position:
IMSI-NISS Liaison & S3 Leadership Committee Member
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Associate Director
Organization:
IMSI

Katherine Thompson

NISS Position:
S3 Leadership Committee Member
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Associate Professor of Statistics
Organization:
University of Kentucky

Lance Waller

NISS Position:
S3 Leadership Committee Member
Term Expiration:
2027 Jun 30
Title:
Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics; Environmental Health
Organization:
Emory University

David Matteson (Ex-Officio, NISS)

Title:
Director
Organization:
NISS

 

Megan Glenn (Ex-Officio, NISS)

Title:
Communications & Events Coordinator
Organization:
NISS

Links to previous Board of Trustees Committees Members

2023-2024 Board of Trustees Committee Members

2022-2023 Board of Trustees Committee Members

2021-2022 Board of Trustees Committee Members