Amy Braverman

Amy J. Braverman is an American statistician who analyzes remote sensing data and climate models as a Principal Statistician at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[1] She has also served as co-chair of the Climate Change Policy Advisory Committee of the American Statistical Association.[2]

Education

Braverman graduated from Swarthmore College in 1982, with a bachelor's degree in economics. She went to the University of California, Los Angeles for graduate study, earning a master's degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in statistics in 1999.[1] Her dissertation, A Rate-distortion Approach to Massive Data Set Analysis, was advised by Don Ylvisaker.[3]

Recognition

In 2012, the American Statistical Association named Braverman as a fellow "for contributions to environmental statistics, particularly in the interface between massive-data reduction and remote sensing; and for service to the statistics community in climate research and policy".[4]

References

1. Amy Braverman, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, retrieved 2018-10-30
2. Berliner, Mark (2009), Statisticians go to Washington (PDF), ASA Climate Change Policy Advisory Committee
3. Amy Braverman at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. American Statistical Association Names 48 Fellows for 2012, American Statistical Association, May 10, 2012 – via PRWeb

Further reading

• Thurm, Scott (February 9, 2015), "It's a Whole New Data Game for Business: Amy Braverman on the Need for New Methodologies to Make Sense of Big Data", The Wall Street Journal