Postdoctoral Fellows at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences

该奖项将支持国家统计科学研究所（NISS）的跨学科研究博士后项目。六名研究员将被任命，为期两到三年，从事NISS现有或未来的项目（位于NISS总部或其他地方），并承担一些教学职责（在三角研究大学或其他地方）。计划中的项目建立在NISS目前由nsf资助的青年研究员项目的强度、深度、科学广度和国家范围的基础上，增加了项目开发和新形式的机构支持。初级研究员将参与涵盖NISS当前和未来兴趣的项目，包括环境、教育、交通、软件开发、大数据集、药物设计和保险。这些项目几乎涉及统计科学的所有方面。参与的高级研究人员和初级科学家来自全国统计和相关科学界，他们将作为初级研究员的合作者和导师。为了反映NISS与三角研究大学（杜克大学、北卡罗来纳州立大学和北卡罗来纳大学教堂山分校）的密切关系，四位杰出的统计学家将担任该系项目的联络员：Berger（杜克大学统计与决策科学艺术与科学教授），Peter Bloomfield （NCSU统计学教授），Richard L. Smith（北卡罗来纳大学统计学教授）和Francoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch（北卡罗来纳大学生物统计学副教授）。

This award will support a postdoctoral program in cross-disciplinary research at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences (NISS). Six Fellows will be appointed, for periods of two or three years, to work on existing or prospective NISS projects (located at NISS headquarters or elsewhere), with some teaching responsibilities (at a Research Triangle university or elsewhere). The planned program builds on the intensity, depth, scientiflc breadth and national scope of NISS' current, NSF-funded Junior Fellows program, adding emphases on project development and new forms of institutional support. Junior Fellows will participate in projects that span current and prospective NISS interests, including environment, education, transportation, software development, large data sets, drug design and insurance. These projects involve virtually all aspects of statistical science. Participating senior researchers and junior scientists are drawn nationwide from the statistics and relevant scientific communities, and will serve as collaborators and mentors for the Junior Fellows. Reflecting NISS' close relationship with the Research Triangle universities (Duke, North Carolina State and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill), four distinguished statisticians will serve as Liaisons with Department Programs: James 0. Berger (Arts and Sciences Professor, Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke), Peter Bloomfield (Professor, Statistics, NCSU), Richard L. Smith (Professor, Statistics, UNC) and Francoise Seillier-Moiseiwitsch (Associate Professor, Biostatistics, UNC).