John V. Atanasoff Research and Discovery Award

Sallie Keller
PhD Statistics '83
Houston, Texas

Sallie Keller is the William and Stephanie Sick Dean of Engineering and Professor of Statistics in the George Brown School of Engineering at Rice University. She has widely published and is co-author of a book entitled Introduction to Probability and Systems Modeling. Her areas of research are uncertainty quantification, computational and graphical statistics and related software and modeling techniques, and data access and confidentiality. Her leadership experience spans the academy, industry, and government.

Keller was a group leader for statistical sciences at Los Alamos National Laboratory from 1998-2005. She was professor and director of graduate studies in the University of Kansas Department of Statistics from 1996-1998. She held a joint research fellowship of the American Statistical Association, National Science Foundation (NSF), and Bureau of Labor Statistics from 1996-1997 and served as program director for Statistics and Probability in the Division of Mathematical Sciences of the NSF from 1994-1996.

Keller, who was named a Fellow of the American Association of the Advancement of Science in 2005, received the American Statistical Association Founder Award in 2002. She was also named a National Associate of the National Academy of Sciences in 2002 and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1997. She was president and chairman of the board of directors of the American Statistical Association in 2006. She is a member of the American Association of University Women, as well as the board of Management Leadership of Tomorrow.

Keller served as president of Mu Sigma Rho at Iowa State while earning her Ph.D.