Kimberly F. Sellers, Ph.D. is the Head of the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University. Further, as a Professor of Statistics, her research areas of interest and expertise are in generalized statistical methods involving count data that contain data dispersion; and in image analysis techniques, particularly low-level analyses including preprocessing, normalization, feature detection, and alignment. She is the author of the reference, The Conway-Maxwell Poisson Distribution (Cambridge University Press) which was released in March 2023. She is a frequently requested speaker (both nationally and internationally) for her research activities, and her efforts to strengthen the pipeline for future statisticians and data scientists.
Background
A DC-area native, Prof. Kimberly Sellers completed her BS and MA degrees in Mathematics at the University of Maryland (College Park, MD), and her PhD in Mathematical Statistics at The George Washington University (Washington, DC). She was one of the inaugural cohort recipients of the Gates Millennium Scholarship. Prof. Sellers held previous faculty positions at Carnegie Mellon University as a Visiting Assistant Professor of Statistics, the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine as an Assistant Professor of Biostatistics and Senior Scholar at the Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics (CCEB), and Georgetown University where she went through the tenure track to Professor of Statistics in the Mathematics and Statistics Department. Sellers is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI; since 2018), an American Statistical Association (ASA) Fellow (since 2021), and an Association for Women in Mathematics (AWM) Fellow (since 2023).