Conference Committees

If you are interested in volunteering, please reach out to Jingchen (Monika) Hu at jihu at vassar dot edu.

Planning Committee Co-Chairs

Quentin Brummet

Quentin Brummet (he/him) is a senior research methodologist in the Methodology & Quantitative Social Sciences department at NORC at the University of Chicago. In this role, he leads research on education and labor force policies and techniques for data privacy, causal inference and survey methodology. He is particularly interested in research related to the applicability of formal privacy methods to sample surveys.

Anthony Caruso

Anthony Caruso is Chief of the Confidentiality Research Staff in the Economic Statistical Methods Division at the U.S. Census Bureau.  His work focuses on the development and implementation of differentially private methods for economic statistics.  He is also interested in improving public understanding about differential privacy and other statistical disclosure control methods.

Jingchen (Monika) Hu

Jingchen (Monika) Hu (she/her) is an Associate Professor at Vassar College. She works on advancing Bayesian methods for statistical data privacy challenges, including synthetic data and differential privacy methods. Monika is a co-author of the undergraduate-level Bayesian textbook Probability and Bayesian Modeling.

Program Committee Co-Chairs

Valbona Bejleri

Valbona Bejleri (she/her) is a supervisory mathematical statistician with National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) at the Department of Agriculture (USDA). She is also a co-leader of the Statistical Disclosure Limitation Research Team at NASS. Her research interests include methods for predictive inference, uncertainty assessment, and statistical disclosure methods with application to agricultural data.

Claire Bowen

Claire McKay Bowen (she/her) is a principal research associate and leads the Statistical Methods Group at the Urban Institute. Her research primarily focuses on developing technical and policy solutions to safely expand access to confidential data that advances evidence-based policymaking. She also has interest in improving science communication and integrating data equity into the data privacy process.

V. Joseph Hotz

V. Joseph Hotz is the Arts and Sciences Distinguished Professor of Economics and Public Policy at Duke University. His research areas include the economics of the family, economic demography, labor economics, population health, and applied econometrics.

Planning Committee Members

Brenda Betancourt, NORC at the University of Chicago

Stephanie Straus, Georgetown University

Program Committee Members

Lu Chen, National Institute of Statistical Sciences/USDA, NASS

Michael Hawes, United States Census Bureau

Joshua Snoke, RAND Corp.

Reviewers

James Bailie, Statistics Department, Harvard University

Rob Chew, RTI International

Alyssa Columbus, Johns Hopkins University

Justin Doty, United States Census Bureau

Caleb Floyd, United States Census Bureau

Michael Freiman, United States Census Bureau

Scott Holan, University of Missouri/United States Census Bureau

Michael Jacobson, USDA - National Agricultural Statistics Service

Don Jang, NORC at the University of Chicago

Hang Kim, University of Cincinnati

Jae June Lee, Georgetown Center on Poverty & Inequality

Norm Matloff, University of California, Davis

Casey Meehan, Tumult Labs

Zixin Nie, RTI International

David Pujol, Tumult Labs

Minsun Riddles, Westat

Christine Task, Knexus Research Corporation

Zach Terner, The MITRE Corporation