Charmaine Dean

Charmaine B. Dean (born 1958) is a statistician from Trinidad.[1] She is the vice president for research at the University of Waterloo, a professor of statistical and actuarial sciences at both Waterloo and Western University, the former president of the International Biometric Society, the former President of the Statistical Society of Canada. Her research interests include longitudinal studies, survival analysis, spatiotemporal data, heart surgery, and wildfires.[2]

Charmaine Dean
Dean speaking at University of Waterloo's 2018 International Women's Day dinner.
Born1958 (1958)
San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago
Alma materUniversity of Saskatchewan University of Waterloo
Scientific career
Thesis
  • Mixed Poisson Models and Regression Methods for Count Data

Education and career

Dean was born in San Fernando, Trinidad and Tobago in 1958 and moved to Canada when she was 19.[3] She graduated in 1980 with honours in mathematics from the University of Saskatchewan. She did her graduate studies at the University of Waterloo, earning a master's degree in 1984 and a Ph.D. in 1988,[1] supervised by Jerry Lawless.[4] Her dissertation was Mixed Poisson Models and Regression Methods for Count Data.[3][5]

After a year at the University of Calgary,[3] she joined the faculty at Simon Fraser University in 1989, and became the founding chair of the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science there at its establishment in 2001.[1] She served as president of the International Biometric Society in 2002 and of the Statistical Society of Canada in 2007.[2] She became Burnaby Mountain Research Chair at Simon Fraser before moving to Western as dean of science in 2011.[1] She stepped down as dean at Western and became vice president for research at Waterloo in 2017.[6]

Recognition

Dean was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2007,[7] and in 2010 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.[2] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute[8] and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[9]

In 2003, she won the CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics of the Centre de Recherches Mathématiques and the Statistical Society of Canada.[3] In 2012 she won the Trinidad & Tobago Canadian High Commission Award.[2]

References
  1. Winders, Jason (March 31, 2011), "Western appoints Dean of Science", Western News, Western University, retrieved 2017-11-28
  2. Dean Charmaine Dean, Western University, retrieved 2017-11-28
  3. The 2003 CRM-SSC Prize is awarded to Charmaine Dean, Centre de Recherches Mathématiques, retrieved 2017-11-28
  4. Charmaine Dean at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  5. "University of Waterloo Theses 1983 to present", Directory of Programs, Statistical Society of Canada, 1989, p. 145, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-28
  6. "University of Waterloo appoints vice-president, university research", Waterloo News, University of Waterloo, December 8, 2016, retrieved 2017-11-28
  7. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-28
  8. Individual members, International Statistical Institute, retrieved 2017-11-23
  9. Honored IMS Fellows, retrieved 2020-07-01
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