[CSDS 2022] Round Table 2 – The future of education in statistics and data science
Abstract: In this round-table, three statisticians and data scientists will discuss the current and future of statistical education in an Era of Data Science. Discussants: Wagner Hugo Bonat Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Bio: Wagner Hugo Bonat is Researcher and Lecturer of the Department of Statistics at Paraná Federal University - UFPR, where he has been since 2010. He is the Head of the Data Science and Big Data program (DSBD) and a member of the Laboratory of Statistics and Geoinformation (LEG). He received a B.S. from Paraná Federal University in 2008, and an M.S. from the Paraná Federal University in 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Southern Denmark in 2016. His research lies on statistical modelling and estimating functions. Much of his work has been on extending the generalized linear model class to deal with multiple response variables. His main contribution is a new class of multivariate regression models called Multivariate Covariance Generalized Linear models (McGLMs) and the associated R package (mcglm). Sastry G. Pantula California State University - San Bernardino, USA Bio: Sastry G. Pantula, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at California State University- San Bernardino (CSUSB), is nationally and internationally recognized as a leader in statistical sciences. Most recently, he has served as the Director of Data Analytics programs at Oregon State University and a Professor of Statistics. He has served as the dean of the College of Science for four years at Oregon State University from August 2013 to August 2017, after serving a three-year term as Director for the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Pantula spent more than 30 years as a statistics professor at North Carolina State University (NCSU), where he began his academic career in 1982. At NCSU, he also served as the Director of Graduate Programs (1994-2002) and the Head of the Department of Statistics (2002-2010). In all of his administrative roles, he has focused on enhancing the quality, quantity and diversity within the department, the division and the college. His core values are excellence, diversity and harmony: strive for excellence, enhance diversity and foster harmony. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Statistical Association (ASA). He served as ASA president in 2010 and received the ASA Founders Award in 2014. Pantula is a member of the honor societies Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi and Mu Sigma Rho. He is also a member of the NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers. Pantula received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, India, and a Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University. Patrick J.F. Groenen Erasmus School of Economics, The Netherlands Bio: Patrick J.F. Groenen is a professor of statistics at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE). He currently is also dean of that school. Professor Groenen's work focuses on data science techniques and their numerical algorithms. He is the co-author of several textbooks on multidimensional scaling published by Springer and has published articles in the top peer-reviewed journals including, among others, the Journal of Machine Learning Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, Psychological Methods, Psychometrika, the Journal of Classification, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, and the Journal of Empirical Finance.
Abstract: In this round-table, three statisticians and data scientists will discuss the current and future of statistical education in an Era of Data Science. Discussants: Wagner Hugo Bonat Federal University of Paraná, Brazil Bio: Wagner Hugo Bonat is Researcher and Lecturer of the Department of Statistics at Paraná Federal University - UFPR, where he has been since 2010. He is the Head of the Data Science and Big Data program (DSBD) and a member of the Laboratory of Statistics and Geoinformation (LEG). He received a B.S. from Paraná Federal University in 2008, and an M.S. from the Paraná Federal University in 2010. He received his Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science from the University of Southern Denmark in 2016. His research lies on statistical modelling and estimating functions. Much of his work has been on extending the generalized linear model class to deal with multiple response variables. His main contribution is a new class of multivariate regression models called Multivariate Covariance Generalized Linear models (McGLMs) and the associated R package (mcglm). Sastry G. Pantula California State University - San Bernardino, USA Bio: Sastry G. Pantula, Dean of the College of Natural Sciences at California State University- San Bernardino (CSUSB), is nationally and internationally recognized as a leader in statistical sciences. Most recently, he has served as the Director of Data Analytics programs at Oregon State University and a Professor of Statistics. He has served as the dean of the College of Science for four years at Oregon State University from August 2013 to August 2017, after serving a three-year term as Director for the Division of Mathematical Sciences at the National Science Foundation. Pantula spent more than 30 years as a statistics professor at North Carolina State University (NCSU), where he began his academic career in 1982. At NCSU, he also served as the Director of Graduate Programs (1994-2002) and the Head of the Department of Statistics (2002-2010). In all of his administrative roles, he has focused on enhancing the quality, quantity and diversity within the department, the division and the college. His core values are excellence, diversity and harmony: strive for excellence, enhance diversity and foster harmony. He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the American Statistical Association (ASA). He served as ASA president in 2010 and received the ASA Founders Award in 2014. Pantula is a member of the honor societies Phi Kappa Phi, Sigma Xi and Mu Sigma Rho. He is also a member of the NCSU Academy of Outstanding Teachers. Pantula received bachelor’s and master’s degrees in statistics from the Indian Statistical Institute in Kolkata, India, and a Ph.D. in statistics from Iowa State University. Patrick J.F. Groenen Erasmus School of Economics, The Netherlands Bio: Patrick J.F. Groenen is a professor of statistics at the Erasmus School of Economics (ESE). He currently is also dean of that school. Professor Groenen's work focuses on data science techniques and their numerical algorithms. He is the co-author of several textbooks on multidimensional scaling published by Springer and has published articles in the top peer-reviewed journals including, among others, the Journal of Machine Learning Research, the Journal of Marketing Research, Psychological Methods, Psychometrika, the Journal of Classification, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, the British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology, and the Journal of Empirical Finance.