Sallie Keller-McNulty

Dr. Sallie Keller-McNulty joined Rice University in 2005 as the Dean of George R. Brown School of Engineering and Professor of Statistics.

From 1998-2005, Dr. Keller-McNulty was the Group Leader for the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National. Prior to her move to Los Alamos, Dr. Keller-McNulty 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).

In addition to her duties at KSU, Dr. Keller-McNulty was a joint American Statistical Association (ASA), National Science Foundation (NSF), Bureau of Labor Statistics Research Fellow from 1996 to 1997. She also spent two years, 1994-1996, as Program Director for Statistics and Probability, Division of Mathematical Sciences, the NSF.

From 1983 to 1985 she was an Assistant Professor in the Mathematics Department at the University of North Carolina-Greensboro.

Dr. Keller-McNulty has over sixty statistical science publications and has co-authored a book, Introduction to Probability and Systems Modelling. Her areas of research are uncertainty quantification, computational and graphical statistics and related software and modeling techniques, and data access and confidentiality. In her research and as Group Leader at Los Alamos, Dr. Keller-McNulty has developed a great appreciation for the need for interdisciplinary research to find solutions for today’s complex problems.

Dr. Keller-McNulty has chaired the National Academy of Sciences’ Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics and has recently served on three other National Research Council committees: the Board of Mathematical Sciences and Their Applications; National Research Council Panel reviewing NIST Information Technology Laboratory; and the Committee on National Statistics on the Research on Future Census Methods. She is currently chair of a National Academy Panel study on Modeling and Simulation for Defense Transformation.

Dr. Keller-McNulty received her Ph.D. in Statistics from Iowa State University of Science and Technology and her BS and MS in mathematics from University of South Florida. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Sciences (AAAS). She was the 2002 recipient of the prestigious ASA lifetime achievement Founders Award and is the currently President of the ASA. She is an Associate Editor of Statistical Science and has served as Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics and the Journal of the American Statistical Association. She serves on numerous national advisory committees.