Catherine Calder

Chair
Department of Statistics & Data Sciences

Kate Calder is the chair and professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Sciences. Previously, at The Ohio State University, she served as co-director of the Mathematical Biosciences Institute, one of eight NSF Mathematical Sciences research Institutes. 

She is a distinguished teacher and researcher who has served in elected leadership positions for professional societies, including as chair of two sections of the American Statistical Association and as a member of the Board of Directors of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. Dr. Calder's research interests include Bayesian modeling and computation, spatial and spatio-temporal statistics, multivariate analysis, and network analysis, and she is a widely published expert in the field. 

A fellow of the American Statistical Association, Dr. Calder is also the recipient of its 2013 Section on Statistics and the Environment Young Investigator Award. She received the Thomas E. and Jean D. Powers Award for Excellence in the Teaching of Statistics at Ohio State, where she has served on the faculty since 2003. Dr. Calder received her B.A. in mathematics from Northwestern University, and her M.S. and Ph.D. in statistics and decision sciences from Duke University.