Kelly S. McConville is an American statistician and statistics educator whose research interests include survey methodology, the applications of environmental statistics to forestry, and the effects of voter identification laws.[1] She is the inaugural Director for the Dominguez Center for Data Science at Bucknell University. Through Spring 2024, she was a senior lecturer and the Co-Director of Undergraduate Studies in statistics at Harvard University.[2]
Education and career
editMcConville majored in mathematics at St. Olaf College, graduating in 2006. She went to Colorado State University for graduate study in statistics, earning a master's degree there in 2008 and completing her Ph.D. in 2011.[3] Her dissertation, Improved Estimation for Complex Surveys Using Modern Regression Techniques, was jointly supervised by Jay Breidt and Thomas C. M. Lee.[4]
Prior to joining Harvard as a senior lecturer in 2021,[2] she spent ten years teaching statistics in the mathematics departments of small liberal arts colleges,[5] including Swarthmore College, Whitman College, and most recently, as an associate professor of statistics at Reed College.[1]
She is the 2023 chair elect of the Section on Statistics and Data Science Education of the American Statistical Association.[6]
Recognition
editIn 2022, McConville was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[7]
References
edit- ^ a b "Kelly McConville", Faculty profiles, Reed College, retrieved 2022-10-06
- ^ a b "Professor Kelly McConville joins Harvard Statistics", News, Harvard University Department of Statistics, November 3, 2021, retrieved 2022-10-06
- ^ McConville, Kelly, Biography, retrieved 2022-10-06
- ^ Kelly McConville at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Professor Kelly McConville Reimagines Harvard's Stat 100 Course", News, Harvard University Department of Statistics, July 20, 2022, retrieved 2022-10-06
- ^ "Section officers", Section on Statistics and Data Science Education, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2022-10-06
- ^ "Many Honored at Presidential Address and Awards Ceremony", AmStat News, October 1, 2022, retrieved 2022-10-06