Amanda S. HeringProfessor Amanda Hering obtained her Ph.D. from Texas A&M University in Statistics in 2009. She joined the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Colorado School of Mines in Golden, Colorado in 2009 as an Assistant Professor and was promted to Associate Professor in 2016. She joined the Department of Statistical Science at Baylor University in the fall of 2016 as an Associate Professor. Her research interests are in modeling big, multivariate, spatial datasets; developing methods for categorical spatial data; and detecting outliers and faults for process and data control. She works with researchers whose data structures generate new statistical methodologies because either the goals or the size of the data presents a new challenge. She is an Associate Editor of Technometrics, Environmetrics, and Stat. She received the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistics in the Environment Early Investigator Award in 2017. Read More Read Less