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Catherine (Kate) Calder is a Professor and the Department Chair of the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. She has an extensive background in statistical research, having previously spent 16 years at Ohio State University. Calder has served in leadership roles such as co-director of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute and is currently on the Board of Directors of the American Statistical Association. She received the Young Investigator Award from the ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment in 2013 and was elected as a Fellow of the ASA in 2014. Her academic qualifications include a B.A. in Mathematics from Northwestern University and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Statistics from Duke University. Her research interests include spatial statistics, Bayesian modeling, and statistical network analysis, with a focus on applications in environmental, social, and health sciences.
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