Dr. Sallie Ann Keller is the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of the George R. Brown School of Engineering and professor of statistics at Rice University. She is fellow and past president of the American Statistical Society and one of the nation's experts in applied and theoretical statistics. She is fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences.
Prior to joining Rice in 2005, she was the group leader for the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory 1998-2005. Prior to her move to Los Alamos, Dr. Keller was professor and director of graduate studies in the Department of Statistics, Kansas State University (KSU). She was on the KSU faculty from 1985 to 1998, where in addition to her position in the statistics department, she served as director of the statistical design and analysis unit for the KSU Institute of Social and Behavioral Research (1990-1998) and was an adjunct professor in the Computer and Information Sciences Department (1989-1995).
She is a former Program Director for Statistics and Probability, Division of Mathematical Sciences, the National Science Foundation (1994-1996).
Dr. Keller is a member of the Science Board of the Santa Fe Institute, Advisory Board of the Center for Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, and chairs a Grand Challenge Advisory Board for Sandia National Laboratory. Current service to federal advisory boards includes the EPA’s Board of Scientific Counselors’ NCER Standing Subcommittee, and the National Research Council’s QMU Committee. Editorial activity has included serving as an associate editor of Statistical Science, the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association.
Dr. Keller has published widely and has co-authored a book, Introduction to Probability and Systems Modeling. Her areas of research are uncertainty quantification, computational and graphical statistics and related software and modeling techniques, and data access and confidentiality. In her own research and leadership positions, Dr. Keller has developed a great appreciation for the need for interdisciplinary research to find solutions for today's complex problems.
Dr. Keller received her Ph.D in Statistics from Iowa State University of Science and Technology and her B.S. and M.S. in mathematics from the University of South Florida.
Sallie Ann Keller curriculum vitae