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Associate Commissioner		Areas of Research
	Douglas Williams	Survey nonresponse, experimental methods and design, questionnaire design, qualitative testing, paradata, web and mobile survey design.
Senior Research Mathematical Statistician		Areas of Research
	Terrance Savitsky	Bayesian model estimation under complex sampling to achieve frequentist consistency and correct uncertainty quantification with respect to the joint distribution governing population generation and the taking of a complex sample; Bayesian synthetic data estimation for the achievement of a formal privacy guarantee that well-preserves the utility of the closely-held data distribution; Bayesian functional data models for small domain estimation for time- and spatially-indexed data; Bayesian nonparametric modeling, including Gaussian processes, continuous random measures and adaptive auto-regressive prior formulations.
Senior Research Survey Methodologist		Areas of Research
	This position is currently vacant.
Senior Mathematical Statistician		Areas of Research
	Daniell Toth	Machine learning, nonparametric regression, estimation and inference with complex sample survey data, disclosure limitation.
Senior Research Psychologist
	Robin Kaplan	Cognitive sources of measurement error, memory retrieval, context effects, questionnaire design, experimental and qualitative research methods, usability.
General Information
	Pamela Anderson

Mathematical Statistics Research Center

Director		Areas of Research
	Jeff Gonzalez	Modular survey designs, new and emerging data collection modes and methodologies, nonresponse bias, respondent burden, responsive and adaptive designs, total survey error.
Mathematical Statisticians		Areas of Research
	Dan Gillman	Metadata, standards, terminology, transparency.
	Randall Powers	Nonresponse, data visualization, clustering analysis, data matching.
Research Mathematical Statisticians		Areas of Research
	Vladislav Beresovsky	Design based inferences on national level and model-bases estimation in small areas from complex survey samples, missing data imputation, nonresponse adjustment, generalized calibration, quasi-randomized estimation from nonprobability survey samples, applications of Bayesian estimation and machine learning for inferences from complex survey samples, modern approaches to data visualization, particularly R-Shiny and R-Markdown.
	Moon Jung Cho	Resampling variance estimation method, bootstrap variance estimation method, Balanced Repeated Replicate (BRR) method, missing or fragmented data, modeling of survey response rates.
	Kate Eckerle	Spectral analysis, stochastic processes, informative sampling, random matrix theory.
	Steve Miller	Statistical methods, measurement error, analysis of data from complex surveys, variance estimation, inference.
	Michael Sverchkov	Estimation and inference with complex sample survey data, variance estimation, small area estimation, calibration, time series analysis.
	Daniel Yang	Respondent burden analysis, recursive partitioning models for complex design, response propensity models, SOII Case and Demographic injury rates.
ASA/NSF/BLS Research Fellows
	Roee Gutman

Behavioral Science Research Center

Director		Areas of Research
	Rebecca L. Morrison	Establishment surveys, questionnaire design, measurement error, qualitative research methods.
Research Psychologists		Areas of Research
	Jean Fox	User experience (UX), customer experience (CX), user interface design, survey design, applying UX methods to support innovation.
	Erica Yu	Cognitive sources of measurement error, experimental methods, questionnaire design, interviewer behavior.

Research Statisticians		Areas of Research
	Andrew Caporaso	Questionnaire & Instrument development, cognitive & usability testing, Mixed-mode data collection & recruitment strategies, Statistical analysis & evaluation.
	Josh Langeland	Adaptive Design, contact strategies, nonresponse adjustment, electronic response in establishment surveys.
	Jonathan Mendelson	Nonresponse, experimental design and analysis, survey modes, sampling and weighting design, Bayesian methods, measurement error.
	Victoria Narine	Social/cultural influences on nonresponse bias, context effects, experimental and qualitative research methods, questionnaire design, interviewer behavior.
	Tywanquila Walker	Experimental methods and design, questionnaire design, data visualization, automation, user experience.
Cognitive Laboratory
	This position is currently vacant.	Schedules participants for studies, maintains database of volunteers, coordinates and assists with studies.

Data Science Research Center

Director		Areas of Research
	Brandon Kopp	Data science, supervised machine learning, unsupervised machine learning, natural language processing, responsible AI, qualitative user experience testing.
Data Scientists		Areas of Research
	Erin Boon	Supervised and unsupervised machine learning, data visualization, natural language processing, data models, efficient programming (SQL, R, python), data science project management.