Karen Kafadar is an American statistician. She is Commonwealth Professor of Statistics at the University of Virginia, and chair of the statistics department there. She was editor-in-chief of Technometrics from 1999 to 2001,[1] and was president of the International Association for Statistical Computing for 2011–2013.[2] In 2017 she was elected president of the American Statistical Association for the 2019 term.[3]