Katherine Bennett Ensor is an American statistician specializing in numerous methods in computational and statistical analysis of time series data, stochastic process modeling, and estimation to forecast issues in public health, community informatics, computational finance, and environmental statistics.
Ensor is the Noah G. Harding Professor of Statistics and Director of the Center for Computational Finance and Economic Systems at Rice University. From 2016–2022, she was Director of the Kinder Institute Urban Data Platform, a data resource initiative for the Greater Houston area that includes the Texas Flood and COVID-19 registries. She is an Executive Team Member for Houston Wastewater Epidemiology, a SARS-CoV-2 wastewater monitoring initiative between Rice University, the Houston Health Department, Houston Public Works, and the City of Houston. [1] In August 2022, Houston Wastewater Epidemiology was named a National Wastewater Surveillance System (NWSS) Center of Excellence by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.[2]