ADVANCE Speaker Series and the Department of Statistics Proudly Presents
Dr. Nancy Reid
University Professor of Statistical Sciences
Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methodology
University of Toronto
“The Whole Women Thing”
Although I’ve mainly tried to ignore gender issues throughout my career, they do pop up to haunt one from time to time. I will discuss some aspects of my career in statistics, through a gender-biased lens, touching on issues around hiring, negotiation, career progression, honours, and family life, and look forward to an exchange of ideas with the audience.
BIO
Nancy Reid is University Professor and Canada Research Chair in Statistical Methodology at the University of Toronto. Her research interests are in statistical theory, likelihood inference, and design of studies. Along with her colleagues she has developed higher order asymptotic methods both for use in applications, and as a means to study theoretical aspects of the foundations of inference, including the interface between Bayesian and frequentist methods.
Professor Reid received her PhD from Stanford University, under the supervision of Rupert Miller. She taught at the University of British Columbia before moving to the University of Toronto, and has held visiting positions at the Harvard School of Public Health, University of Texas at Austin, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, and University College London. In 2009 she received the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Prize for statistical innovation, and the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada.
She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association.
