Nicole Lazar is an Associate Professor
of Statistics at the University of Georgia. After receiving
her BA in Statistics and Psychology from Tel Aviv University,
she served three
years as Statistics Officer in the Israel Defense Forces
Department of Behavioral Sciences. She then moved to the
US for graduate school,
obtaining her MS in Statistics from Stanford University and
PhD in Statistics from the University of Chicago. She was
Associate Professor
of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University before joining
the Department of Statistics, University of Georgia.
Nicole's research interests include empirical likelihood, functional neuroimaging,
applications of statistics to the social and behavioral sciences, and the role
of statistics, and statisticians, in society.
