David S. Matteson

David S. Matteson is a professor of statistics and data science at Cornell University and director of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences. He is also associate department chair of statistics and data science, director of graduate studies in data science, and founding executive committee member for the Cornell Center for Data Science for Enterprise and Society. His research centers on statistical methods for modeling complex human and natural processes and systems, with expertise in dynamic, spatial, functional, and network data science and machine learning. He received a CAREER Award from the National Science Foundation, the Chancellor’s Award for Scholarship and Creative Activities from the State University of New York, the inaugural Ann S. Bowers Research Excellence Award, Faculty Research Awards from the Xerox/PARC Foundation and LinkedIn, and is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). He has served as lead PI and director for several National Science Foundation-funded collaborative institutes, and he founded and serves as editor-in-chief for the new open access ASA journal Data Science in Science.