Kimberly Sellers

Kimberly Sellers
Born
Washington, D.C.
Alma materUniversity of Maryland, College Park
George Washington University
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Thesis Vague Coherent Systems  (2001)
Doctoral advisorNozer Darabsha Singpurwalla
Websitewww.kimflaggsellers.com

Kimberly Flagg Sellers is an American statistician. She has been the head of the statistics department at North Carolina State University since 2023, where she is the first Black woman in the university's history to lead a science department.[1] Previously, Dr. Sellers was a full professor of statistics at Georgetown University and [2] a principal researcher in the Center for Statistical Research and Methodology of the United States Census Bureau,[3] the former chair of the Committee on Women in Statistics of the American Statistical Association,[3][4] a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[5] She specializes in count data and statistical dispersion, and is "the leading expert" on the Conway–Maxwell–Poisson distribution for count data.[3][4] She has also worked in the medical applications of statistics, and in image analysis for proteomics.[6]

  1. ^ "Kimberly Sellers Named Head of Department of Statistics". 5 June 2023.
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