Claire McKay Bowen
Claire McKay Bowen is an American statistician whose work focuses on data privacy, differential privacy, synthetic data, and their effects on the statistical analysis of economic data. She is a senior fellow and head of the statistical methods group in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population of the Urban Institute, an American think tank.[1]
Education and career
[edit]Bowen grew up on a farm in Idaho.[2][3] After graduating from Salmon High School in Idaho, she majored in mathematics and physics, with a minor in statistics, at Idaho State University, earning a bachelor's degree there in 2012.[4] She became part of the first generation in her family to earn a college degree.[2]
She continued her studies in applied and computational mathematics and statistics at the University of Notre Dame. After a master's degree in 2015, she completed her Ph.D. in 2018.[4] Her dissertation, Data Privacy via Integration of Differential Privacy and Data Synthesis, was supervised by Fang Liu.[5]
She joined the Urban Institute in 2019, after a year of postdoctoral research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, working with Joanne Wendelberger and Earl Lawrence.[4]
Book
[edit]Bowen is the author of Protecting Your Privacy in a Data-Driven World (CRC Press, 2021).[2][6]
Recognition
[edit]In 2021, Bowen was named to the Leadership Academy of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, "for contributions to the development and broad dissemination of Statistics and Data Science methods and concepts, particularly in the emerging field of Data Privacy, and for leadership of technical initiatives, professional development activities, and educational programs".[7] She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2024.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ Claire Bowen, Urban Institute, 12 December 2022, retrieved 2024-05-31
- ^ a b c "Idaho State Alumna Authors Book on Data Privacy", ISU News, Idaho State University, 27 January 2022, retrieved 2024-05-31
- ^ "Claire McKay Bowen", Celebrating Women in Statistics, AmStat News, American Statistical Association, 1 March 2020, retrieved 2024-05-31
- ^ a b c Bowen, Claire McKay, About me, retrieved 2024-05-31; see also attached curriculum vitae
- ^ Ph.D. Defense: Claire Bowen, University of Notre Dame Department of Applied and Computational Mathematics and Statistics, 27 March 2018, retrieved 2024-05-31
- ^ Stein, Stefan (April 2022), "Review of Protecting Your Privacy in a Data-Driven World", Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A: Statistics in Society, 185 (Supplement 2): S763–S764, doi:10.1111/rssa.12847
- ^ New: COPSS Leadership Academy, for Emerging Leaders in Statistics, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 29 March 2021, retrieved 2024-05-31
- ^ 2024 ASA Fellows (PDF), American Statistical Association, retrieved 2024-05-31
External links
[edit]- Home page
- Claire McKay Bowen publications indexed by Google Scholar
- Spotlight on hidden physicists: The Data Privacy Scientist, Claire McKay Bowen, Sigma Pi Sigma, Spring 2022
- Ruobin Gong interviews Claire McKay Bowen, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, April 2022