Alyson Wilson

Alyson Gabbard Wilson (born 1967)[1] is an American statistician known for her work on Bayesian methods for reliability estimation and on military applications of statistics. She is a professor of statistics at North Carolina State University, where she is also Associate Vice Chancellor for National Security and Special Research Initiatives.

Alyson Wilson
Born
Alyson G. Wilson
Occupation
  • Statistician
  • Professor
  • Associate Vice Chancellor

Education and career

Wilson graduated summa cum laude from Rice University in 1989. After earning a master's degree in statistics from Carnegie Mellon University in 1990, she completed a Ph.D. at Duke University in 1995.[2] Her dissertation, Statistical Models for Shapes and Deformations, was supervised by Valen E. Johnson.[3]

After completing her doctorate, Wilson worked in the defense industry as a statistician for four years before joining the research staff at Los Alamos National Laboratory in 1999,[2] working on the statistical reliability of weapons.[4] She moved to Iowa State University as an associate professor of statistics in 2008, and then moved again to the Institute for Defense Analyses in 2011. She returned to academia as an associate professor at North Carolina State University in 2011, and was promoted to full professor in 2015. In 2020 she became Associate Vice Chancellor for National Security and Special Research Initiatives at North Carolina State.[2]

Book

With Michael S. Hamada, C. Shane Reese, and Harry F. Martz, Wilson is a co-author of the book Bayesian Reliability (Springer, 2008).[5]

Recognition

Wilson became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2008, an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute in 2012, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015.[2]

She won the Army Wilks Award of the Conference on Applied Statistics in Defense, given periodically for "a substantial contribution to statistical methodology and application relevant to national defense" (and not to be confused with the Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award of the American Statistical Association) in 2015.[6] In 2018 she won the Distinguished Achievement Award of the American Statistical Association Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security.[4]

References
  1. Birth year from Library of Congress catalog entry, retrieved 2020-01-21.
  2. Curriculum vitae (PDF), January 2020, retrieved 2020-01-21
  3. Alyson Wilson at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Distinguished Achievement Award, American Statistical Association Section on Statistics in Defense and National Security, retrieved 2020-01-21
  5. Reviews of Bayesian Reliability:
    • Albert, James H. (June 2009), Journal of the American Statistical Association (486): 858, JSTOR 40592232CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Horníková, Adriana (November 2009), Technometrics, 51 (4): 483–484, JSTOR 40586664CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Ghosh, Jayanta K. (December 2009), International Statistical Review, 77 (3): 469–470, doi:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2009.00095_6.x, JSTOR 27919774CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Ravi, Sreenivasan (October 2010), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 173 (4): 935, doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00663_4.x, JSTOR 40925409CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
    • Betrò, Bruno (2012), Mathematical Reviews, MR 2724437CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link)
  6. "Wilks Award", Conference on Applied Statistics in Defense, 2016, retrieved 2020-01-21
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