Dr. Boos received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Florida State University, 1977. Dr. Boos is Professor and Associated Department Head in the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University His current research interests include model selection, bootstrap and permutation methods, robust and nonparametric statistics, and biostatistics.

Dr. Bondell received his Ph.D. in Statistics from Rutgers University in 2005. He is Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University. Dr. Bondell's current research interests include variable and model selection, classification, clustering, robust estimation and inference, and nonparametric and semiparametric statistics.

Dr. Davidian is William Neal Reynolds Professor of Statistics and Coordinator for the Chancellor's Faculty Excellence Program's Personalized Medicine Discovery Faculty Cluster at North Carolina State University, and is Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke.

Dr. Holloway is trained as a theoretical physicist, having received her Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2004. She served as a Post-doctoral Research Associate and a Staff Scientist in the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Throughout her education and career, Dr. Holloway’s research interests focused on developing and implementing sophisticated numerical models of complex fundamental processes.