Associate Fellow Research Articles

Interview With Richard De Veaux

Richard De Veaux is the C. Carlisle and Margaret Tippit Professor of Statistics at Williams College. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and has served on the ASA Board of Direct...

A conversation with Elizabeth A. Stuart

Elizabeth A. Stuart is a Professor in the Departments of Mental Health, Biostatistics, and Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and Associate Dean for Education at the school. She is a renowned expert in the area of causal inference, including propensity score methods for observational data and the generalizability of randomized trial results, and is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Prior to her appointment to the faculty at Johns Hopkins, Professor Stuart received her Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University and a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Smith College. In 2015, Professor Stuart was recognized at the International Conference on Health Policy Statistics with the Mid-Career Award from the Health Policy Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association.

Become an Associate Fellow or Fellow of the British Psychological Society

Become an Associate Fellow or Fellow of the British Psychological Society

A Conversation with Jerry Friedman

Jerome H. Friedman was born in Yreka, California, USA, on December 29, 1939. He received his high school education at Yreka High School, then spent two years at Chico State College before transferring to the University of California at Berkeley in 1959. He completed an undergraduate degree in physics in 1962 and a Ph.D. in high-energy particle physics in 1968 and was a post-doctoral research physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory during 1968-1972. In 1972, he moved to Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) as head of the Computation Research Group, retaining this position until 2006. In 1981, he was appointed half time as Professor in the Department of Statistics, Stanford University, remaining half time with his SLAC appointment. He has held visiting appointments at CSIRO in Sydney, CERN and the Department of Statistics at Berkeley, and has had a very active career as a commercial consultant. Jerry became Professor Emeritus in the Department of Statistics in 2007. Apart from some 30 publications in high-energy physics early in his career, Jerry has published over 70 research articles and books in statistics and computer science, including co-authoring the pioneering books Classification and Regression Trees and The Elements of Statistical Learning. Many of his publications have hundreds if not thousands of citations (e.g., the CART book has over 21,000). Much of his software is incorporated in commercial products, including at least one popular search engine. Many of his methods and algorithms are essential inclusions in modern statistical and data mining packages. Honors include the following: the Rietz Lecture (1999) and the Wald Lectures (2009); election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2005) and the US National Academy of Sciences (2010); a Fellow of the American Statistical Association; Paper of the Year (JASA 1980, 1985; Technometrics 1998, 1992); Statistician of the Year (ASA, Chicago Chapter, 1999); ACM Data Mining Lifetime Innovation Award (2002), Emanuel & Carol Parzen Award for Statistical Innovation (2004); Noether Senior Lecturer (American Statistical Association, 2010); and the IEEE Computer Society Data Mining Research Contribution Award (2012).

A Conversation with Robert C. Elston

Robert C. Elston was born on February 4, 1932, in London, England. He went to Cambridge University to study natural science from 1952–1956 and obtained B.A., M.A. and Diploma in Agriculture (Dip Ag). He came to the US at age 24 to study animal breeding at Cornell University and received his Ph.D. in 1959. From 1959–1960, he was a post-doctoral fellow in biostatistics at University of North Carolina (UNC), Chapel Hill, where he studied mathematical statistics. He then rose through the academic ranks in the department of biostatistics at UNC, becoming a full professor in 1969. From 1979–1995, he was a professor and head of the Department of Biometry and Genetics at Louisiana State University Medical Center in New Orleans. In 1995, he moved to Case Western Reserve University where he is a professor of epidemiology and biostatistics and served as chairman from 2008 to 2014. Between 1966 and 2013, he directed 42 Ph.D. students and mentored over 40 post-doctoral fellows. If one regards him as a founder of a pedigree in research in genetic epidemiology, it was estimated in 2007 that there were more than 500 progeny. Among his many honors are a NIH Research Career Development Award (1966–1976), the Leadership Award from International Society of Human Genetics (1995), William Allan Award from American Society of Human Genetics (1996), NIH MERIT Award (1998) and the Marvin Zelen Leadership Award, Harvard University (2004). He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics as well as a Fellow of the Ohio Academy of Science. A leader in research in genetic epidemiology for over 40 years, he has published over 600 research articles in biostatistics, genetic epidemiology and applications. He has also coauthored and edited 9 books in biostatistics, population genetics and methods for the analysis of genetic data. The original conversation took place on August 4, 2009, during the Joint Statistical Meetings (JSM) in Washington, DC by GZ and ZL. NLG had dinner with RCE during the 2013 JSM in Montreal, Canada, and added supplementary material and edited the conversation. RCE updated and clarified certain points.

Digest & Documentation Author

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsABOUT THE AUTHORAlexander Ramsbotham has been working with peacebuilding NGO Conciliation Resources since August 2009 as Head of Accord and Series Editor. Before this he was a research fellow in the international programme at the Institute for Public Policy Research. Alexander worked as specialist adviser to the House of Lords European Union (EU) Select Committee in its inquiry into the EU Strategy for Africa, prior to which he was head of the Peace and Security Programme at the United Nations Association-UK. He has also been an associate fellow of the International Security Programme at Chatham House. Alexander completed a PhD in Peace Studies at the University of Bradford in July 2011 and edits the Digest and Documentation sections of the Taylor and Francis Journal, International Peacekeeping.

Editorial introductions

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DIGEST & DOCUMENTATION

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size ABOUT THE AUTHORAlexander Ramsbotham has been working with Conciliation Resources as Head of Accord and Series Editor since August 2009. Previously he was a Research Fellow in the International Programme at the Institute for Public Policy Research; Specialist Adviser to the House of Lords' European Union Select Committee in its inquiry into the EU Strategy for Africa; Associate Fellow in the International Security Programme at Chatham House; and Head of the Peace and Security Programme at the United Nations Association-UK. Alexander completed a Ph.D. in July 2011.

A Conversation with Jean‐Louis Bodin

SummaryJean‐Louis Bodin has had a distinguished career as an official statistician in the French and European statistical systems, where he has been working for 40 years.Born in 1941 in Bordeaux, the capital city of one of the most famous vineyards in the world, he became graduate of two French prestigious schools, the Ecole Polytechnique in 1963, then the ENSAE (Ecole Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Economique) in 1966. After having spent 20 years in different positions in the French Statistical System, he dedicated the last 20 years of his career to international relations in official statistics and cooperation for strengthening statistical capacities of transition and developing countries. In particular, he was one of the main drafters of the UN Resolution on Fundamental Principles for Official Statistics and of the African Statistical Charter. He is also known for having created AFRISTAT, the Economic and Statistical Observatory of Sub‐Saharan African countries. He was also during years one of the French representatives in the UN Statistical Commission, the UN Conference of European Statisticians and the Statistical Committee Programme of the European Union.Jean‐Louis Bodin has played for 40 years a very active role in national and international statistical societies. He served on many disparate positions in the ISI family: executive director of the International Association of Survey Statisticians from 1981 to 1985 under the successive chairmanships of Gérard Théodore and Leslie Kish, founding member in 1985 with Vera Nyitrai of the International Association for Official Statistics and president of the Association from 1989 to 1991, secretary‐general of the National Organizing Committee of the 47th ISI Session held in Paris in August 1989, Chair of the Programme Coordinating Committee of the 50th ISI Session held in Beijing in August 1995, ISI president‐elect then president from 1997 to 2001, president of the Jury of the Mahalanobis Prize from 2002 to 2005. He was also president of the Société de Statistique de Paris in 1994. He received the certificate of Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1996 and was a member of the ASA Committee for International Relations in Statistics from 1993 to 1997.He was bestowed in 2006 as a Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur (Knight of the Legion of Honour) in France and in 1997 as a Kawaleski Orderu Zasługi(Knight of the Order of Merit) in Poland. He received the Medal of Statistical Merit in Vietnam in 2003 and the African Statistical Award bestowed by the UN Economic Conference for Africa in 2012.This conversation was held in June 2013 with Gilbert Saporta in Paris.Gilbert Saporta: Welcome to this interview, Jean‐Louis. I'm delighted that you could spend some time with me to discuss your career, your achievements and your views on some aspects of official statistics. It appears that your professional career as a French official statistician and your participation in ISI activities were tightly linked. image

WHAT IS “POSTSECULAR” ABOUT GLOBAL POLITICAL DISCOURSE?

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsBenjamin Schewel is an Associate Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture at the University of Virginia. He received his doctorate in philosophy from the University of Leuven (KUL). He is the former recipient of a Fulbright fellowship.

Prof. Dr. Hans P. Geering, 1942 - 2014 [Obituary

A brief biography of Dr. Hans P. Geering is given highlighting his professional achievements. He was an associate editor-at-large (1987-1989) for IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, an associate editor (1993-1996) for IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology, an IEEE Life Fellow, an Associate Fellow of AIAA, and a member of many other societies. He supervised 36 dissertations, published over 170 journal and conference articles, and wrote the book "Optimal Control with Engineering Applications" (Springer-Verlag, 2007).

Book Reviews

Considers how moral conduct is encouraged in organizations through indirect guidance and the promotion of morals via routines, with a special focus on the students and faculty of Harvard Business School. Discusses Harvard Business School's physical environment; how the ordering enterprise extends to the academic labor market; Harvard Business School's supporting routines designed to facilitate skillful in-class delivery; an analysis of a random sample of teaching notes from the first-year MBA program; faculty members' nonteaching activities and what they say about the perspectives the school might favor; and the “quality control” needed in such an organizational model. Anteby is Associate Professor and Marvin Bower Fellow in the Organizational Behavior Unit at Harvard Business School.

American Strategy in Afghanistan: Dilemmas, Miscalculations and Outcomes

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsPriyanka SinghDr. Priyanka Singh is an Associate Fellow at IDSA, New Delhi.

Building an eScience Thesaurus for Librarians: A Collaboration Between the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region and an Associate Fellow at the National Library of Medicine

Objective: In response to the growing interest and adoption of eScience roles by librarians, those from the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, New England Region (NN/LM NER) and an Associate Fellow from the National Library of Medicine collaborated to build an eScience Thesaurus. The Thesaurus will introduce librarians to terminology and concepts in eScience, point to relevant literature and resources on data and digital research topics, and provide links to interviews with librarians and experts working in eScience-related roles. The eScience Thesaurus is a starting place for librarians to find the vocabulary to research the background, resources, and tools necessary for developing their capacity to provide eScience-related services. Methods: The Associate Fellow completed a review of eScience-related literature to identify the seminal publications for the originations of terms and concepts as they apply to libraries. Next, the Associate Fellow worked with the NN/ LM NER to compile an environmental scan of resources that would be useful and applicable for librarians, and created a scope document and record structure. The team interviewed prominent librarians working in eScience roles and experts that have created digital tools and services used by the library community. Finally, the team sent the Thesaurus records out to five members of the advisory and editorial review boards from the eScience Portal for New England Librarians for evaluation. Results: The eScience Thesaurus is now hosted on the eScience Portal for New England Librarians’ website. It provides a comprehensive list of more than 50 different terminologies and concepts, with links to seminal and relevant literature, resources, grants, and interviews on a variety of eScience-related topics. Conclusion: The eScience Thesaurus is an evolving resource; as the field expands and more eScience-related terms are adopted by the library and information science community, the Portal will enable its users to electronically submit new vocabulary and records to the Thesuarus, thus preserving it as a go-to eScience resource for librarians. Correspondence to Kevin Read: kevin.read@nyumc.org

Caution is the Key

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsNihar Nayak*Dr. Nihar Nayak is Associate Fellow at IDSA, New Delhi.

Focus on Authors

Focus on Authors

Diamondoid Molecules: With Applications in Biomedicine, Materials Science, Nanotechnology and Petroleum Science

by G. A. Mansoori, P. Lopes Barraos de Araujo, and E. Silvano de Araujo, 1st ed., Word Scientific Pub. Co., Hackensack, NJ, 2012, (Hardcover: 400+pages, Language: English), ISBN=10: 9814291609; ISBN=13: 978-9814291606.REVIEWED BY BRUCE CHEHROUDI1This is a fascinating book dealing with diamondoid molecules which are important molecular building blocks in bottom-up nanotechnology. Diamondoids have lattice structures similar to diamond. They have found many applications in nanotechnology, biomedicine, materials science, and petroleum science which are presented in this comprehensive book. This book also tells us the great potential that diamondoids have for derivatization with interesting properties. To demonstrate the vast number of applications that diamondoids are having I share Figure 1.20 of the book (below) which shows the U.S. issued patents related to diamondoids (black columns, left Y-axes) and percentage of patents on pharmaceutical/medical application of diamondoids (empty circles/black line, right Y-axes), from January 1950 to December 2009.U.S. issued patents related to diamondoids (black columns, left Y-axes) and percentage of patents on pharmaceutical/medical application of diamondoids (empty circles/black line, right Y-axes), from January 1950 to December 2009.This book, in addition to giving the readership the role of diamondoids as molecular building blocks in nanotechnology, it gives the readership an excellent background science and technology about molecular structure, physics and chemistry of diamondoids, the role and nature of diamondoids in fossil fuels, physical properties of diamondoids, properties of diamondoids, and biomedical and materials science applications of diamondoids. Interestingly, it is shown in this book that ab initio calculations are quite useful for molecular property prediction of diamondoids and their derivatives, especially for the fact that there exist a huge number of such molecules. The book also gives an excellent description of quantum confinement effects and negative electron affinities of diamondoids which are their unique characteristics. The first-principles simulations of interaction of diamondoids with other systems such as carbon nanotubes, metallic surfaces, and metallic AFM cantilever tips, which are the promising ways to design new nanomaterials are well presented in this book. Additionally, functionalized diamondoids which have led to the creation of nanosystems with new chemical and physical properties and with suitable applications in pharmacology and electronic devices are also presented very well in this book.According to this book, diamondoids are generally optically transparent in visible light and have high electrical insulating properties as diamond does. It is also interesting to learn from this book that, the many derivatives of diamondoids are expected to have many interesting opto-electronic properties. This book reports results of numerous investigations into properties of diamondoids and derivatives' opto-electronic properties.The book is made of seven chapters and a comprehensive glossary. Every chapter is well illustrated with many well organized tables and appropriately designed figures and graphs. I congratulate Professor Mansoori and his colleagues to write this book and I recommend it highly to senior-undergraduate or graduate students of nanoscience, nanomedicine, and nanotechnology.Dr. Chehroudi, Chief Scientist at Advanced Technology Consultants, has accumulated years of technical and leadership experiences in different capacities and organizations. He has won many technical merit and leadership awards for his contributions. Dr. Chehroudi has a Ph.D. in Mechanical & Aerospace Engineering (Princeton University), Post-Doctoral Fellow (Princeton University), M.S. in Mechanical Engineering (Southern Methodist University, Summa Cum Laude), M.S. in Economics (Swiss Finance Institute, Magna Cum Laude), a member of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics Propellant & Combustion Committee, and is an Associate Fellow of American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics. He has delivered over 200 presentations in technical meetings and to nontechnical audiences, has more than 150 publications with extensive experience in both scientific and management areas and intensive trainings in finance and financial engineering.

The Expert Opinion: An Interview with Greg Knott Vice president and Division CIO of Global Supply Chain Solutions Ryder System, Inc.

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsPaul S. LickerPaul S. Licker earned his Ph. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1977. He has been a social scientist, information systems professional, software entrepreneur, communication consultant and university lecturer in Thailand, Britain, the USA, Canada, and South Africa. He has authored over eighty published research papers, three textbooks, two monographs, and numerous conference papers. Research interests include IT-user relations, user responsibility in IT and strategic deployment of IT. He is Professor of MIS in the Decision Sciences Department in the School of Business Administration at Oakland University, Rochester, Minnesota. He is a Fellow of the Global Information Technology Management Association.

Know Your AMI President (2013)

Born in Hamirpur, Himachal Pradesh, on the 27th September 1953, Prof. Lal received his primary education at the Government High School Bani, Himachal Pradesh, graduation from D.A.V College, Jalandhar, in 1973, M.Sc from Kurukshetra University, in 1975 and Ph.D. from University of Delhi, Delhi (1975–1980). His teaching career started as a lecturer in Zoology at Sri Venkateswara College, University of Delhi, in 1979. He was appointed as reader at the Department of Zoology, University of Delhi in 1992. In April 2000, he became professor in the same Department. He was the Head of the Department of Zoology (Nov 2007–Nov 2010) and Dean, Faculty of Science (Nov 2007–July, 2010), University of Delhi. He has also served as Chairman of Board of Research Studies, Member of Academic & Executive Council, University of Delhi (2007–2010) and Coordinator UGC, SAP programme (2007–2010). Currently, He is the Dean (Examinations), University of Delhi, Delhi. He was awarded Alexander von Humboldt (AvH) Fellowship from July 1988 to August 1990 and worked at the University of Bielefeld, Gentechnologie/Mikrobiologie, Germany. He subsequently visited (under the AvH Fellowship) University of Bielefeld between, May 1995 to July 1995; June to July, 2004 and June to July, 2008. He has also been a visiting scientist at the Department of Biochemistry, University of Cambridge from February to May, 1998. He was awarded Department of Biotechnology short-term Overseas Associateship from May to Oct, 2000 to work at the Department of Genetics, University of Kaiserslautern, Germany. He was also awarded Indo-US professorship for the year 2008–2009 by American Society for Microbiology (ASM) to conduct research at the Oregon State University in Corvallis, USA. He has been instrumental in running two very long and fruitful international collaboration under ISCB (between DU, IMTECH, EAWAG and EPFL) and IACB (between DU, IMTECH and CSIRO, Canberra). His primary research interests include microbial diversity at pesticide polluted sites, genetic and biochemistry of hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH) degradation and development of HCH bioremediation technology. Prof. Rup Lal is also interested in the evolution of lin genes and genetic manipulation of rifamycin producer Amycolatopsis mediterranei. His group has already sequenced genomes of Amycolatopsis mediterranei S699, Thermus sp. RL, Acinetobacter sp. HA and Sphingobium indicum B90A. Currently, he is exploring metagenomics diversity of the HCH dumpsite. He has nearly 128 publications in peer-reviewed journals attracting over 1812 ISI citations along with h-index 24. He also has a US patent to his credit. Prof. Rup Lal has supervised more than 40 Ph.D. students and currently has 8 Ph.D. students under his guidance. Many of his Ph.D. students are well settled and some of them are leaders in various capacities. He is a member of the Review Committee for the ASM-IUSSTF Indo-US Professorship in Microbiology (2009–2012). He will be taking over as American Society for Microbiology (ASM) Ambassador from July 2012 for the Indian Ocean Region. He is a President of the Association of Microbiologists of India (2013). Rup Lal is also Editor-in-Chief of the Indian Journal of Microbiology (INJM), Associate Editor of BMC Biotechnology & BMC Biochemistry and member advisory board of OA- Nano-Bio-technology. He is the General Secretary of Indian Network for Soil Contamination & Research (INSCR). He is also the Fellow of Indian Academy of Sciences, New Delhi (FNA), Fellow of National Academy of Sciences, India (FNASc), Fellow of National Academy of Agricultural Sciences (FNAAS) and Fellow of Association of Microbiologists of India (FAMI).

Editorial introductions

Editorial introductions