Nicole Lazar received her undergraduate degree in statistics and psychology from Tel Aviv University, her MS in statistics from Stanford University, and her PhD in statistics from the University of Chicago. She was on the faculty of the Statistics Department at Carnegie Mellon University before moving to the University of Georgia in 2004. She is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Past editor-in-chief of The American Statistician, she has also served on the editorial boards of leading statistics journals. She is currently president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. Her research interests include likelihood theory, the analysis of functional neuroimaging data, and the foundations of statistics.

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