Dr. Tsiatis is Gertrude M. Cox Distinguished Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University and Adjunct Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke. He is a leading expert in clinical trials, survival analysis, causal inference, dynamic treatment regimes, group sequential trials, and semiparametric inference and author of a book on the latter topic.

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. George is Professor of Biostatistics and Bioinformatics at Duke and Director of Biostatistics for the Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center (DCCC) and for the CALGB. His expertise is in clinical trials, translational science, and prognostic and predictive models. He is an elected Fellow of the ASA.