Statement of Professional Goals and Objectives

The past two decades have seen the growing importance of statistical thought in providing practical solutions to real-world problems. The engineer, the scientist, the medical researcher, the business and public policy-maker all want the statistician as a partner in the effort to address vexing issues of practical significance. At play are multiple levels of statistical expertise – that of the experimenter, the analyst or the practitioner. The need for the researcher is then crucial, but no less is that of the educator who nurtures and trains statistically sound scientific lines of inquiry, or of the professional providing valuable service in advancing the goals of the discipline to make research and education possible. In this document, I illustrate my specific goals in each of these areas, my attempts towards realizing them as a member of the faculty in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University and the statistical community, and my vision for the future.