Marie Davidian Elected the 108th President of the American Statistical Association

Marie Davidian, the William Neal Reynolds Distinguished Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, was elected president of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Davidian will serve one-year as president-elect beginning in January. In January 2013 she will become the 108th president of the association.

The American Statistical Association was founded in 1839 and is headquartered in Boston. It currently has over 18,000 members.

Dr. Davidian holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in applied mathematics from the University of Virginia. She earned a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the former editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association. Professor Davidian also serves as director of North Carolina State University’s Center for Quantitative Sciences in Biomedicine.