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Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Appendix B: Biographical Sketches of Committee Members and Staff
Pages 312-322
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He has served on several NRC panels, on topics including statistical and operational test design in defense systems, methods for assessing discrimination, and decennial census methodology. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a fellow of the American Statistical Association, a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a lifetime national associate of the National Academies.
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She is on the editorial board of Bayesian Statistics and an editor for Statistical Science. She is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.
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Cook is ITT/Terry Sanford professor of public policy studies and professor of economics and sociology at Duke University, where he is a former director of the Sanford Institute of Public Policy. His research covers a broad range of policy analysis, focusing on the regulation of unhealthy and unsafe behavior, including lotteries; sources of socioeconomic inequality, including the disparity in salaries between the elites in certain professions and the rest of the population; the administration of criminal justice, including the costs of the death penalty; and the prevention of alcohol-related problems through restrictions on alcohol availability.
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He is currently studying magnetostrictive materials using state-of-the-art chemical probes and magnetic domain analysis. He has also written textbooks on conventional transmission electron microscopy for imaging and on crystallography, symmetry and diffraction for image analysis.
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He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Royal Statistical Society, and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He is affiliated with Carnegie Mellon's Center for Automated Learning and Discovery and Center for Cognitive Brain Imaging as well as the Brain Imaging Research Center (joint with the University of Pittsburgh)
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He currently heads the computer vision group of MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, which has pioneered state-of-the-art systems for activity and behavior recognition, object and person recognition, image database indexing, image guided surgery, site modeling, and many other areas of computer vision. He is a fellow of the American Association for Artificial Intelligence and was awarded the Bose Award for Excellence in Teaching in the School of Engineering at MIT.
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He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, American Statistical Association, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and a senior member of the American Society for Quality. He served as editor of Technometrics and as joint editor of International Statistical Review.
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Throughout his career, he has advised federal agencies and Congress on matters related to firearms and protective body armor, serving as chairman of the National Institute of Justice National Armor Advisory Board, as an advisor to the Congressional Office of Technology Assessment on body armor legislation, and as chairman of the Weapons and Protective Systems Committee, Technology Assessment Program Advisory Council, which advises the National Institute of Justice on the development of standards for police equipment. Daryl Pregibon works for Google, Inc., and is based in New York City.
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and testified in front of the Senate Armed Services Committee on Defense Technology, Acquisition and Industrial Base. He chaired DSB's Production Technology Subgroup for Weapons Development Production Technology Summer Studies program that developed a manufacturing technology strategy for the U.S.
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Since 1995, he has also been the director of the University's Distributed and Intelligent Computation Center. He has done extensive research in the field of intelligent systems, including computer vision, automatic target recognition, signal and image processing, pattern recognition, statistical learning theory, neural networks, and data mining and knowledge discovery.
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She is a fellow of the Minerals, Metals and Materials Society and ASM International, received Special Creativity Awards for Research from the National Science Foundation in 1981 and 1986, a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1986–1987, the Achievement Award from the Society of Women Engineers in 1991, and the Leadership Award from TMS in 1997. She holds a B.A., M.S., and D.Sci in physics from the Carnegie Institute of Technology (now Carnegie Mellon University)
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