SWB Executive Committee
Preetam Debasish Saha Roy
Marketing & Communications Director
Executive Committee
Preetam Debasish Saha Roy has professional experience in the analytics function of the E-commerce, Manufacturing, Financial Services, and Nonprofit sectors. He has an academic background in technology and business management and a research interest in data science and machine learning. Particular areas of interest are Predictive Modelling and Online A/B experimentation. Preetam has collaborated on multiple SWB projects as Statistical Consultant and has been an active member of the Marcomm team since 2022.
L. Louphul
Marketing & Communications Director
Executive Committee
L Louphul is a techpreneur and a MIT Bootcamps alum with a background in data analytics, machine learning and business management who has a passion for algorithms and space research. Her journey as a founder in the tech industry has made her realize how the field of data science is more than just a career but a way to transform communities and change lives. She hopes to someday see a more inclusive, representative and gender-diverse tech industry.
Jean Opsomer
Past Chair
Executive Committee
Jean Opsomer is Professor and Chair in the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University. His main areas of statistical expertise are survey statistics and nonparametric methods. He is delighted to be able to assist SWB as it continues to expand its operations and develops a more effective organizational structure.
Gary Shapiro
Co-Founder
Executive Committee
Gary Shapiro is retired from Westat, where he was Senior Statistician from 1996 to 2009. Gary was the lead statistician, senior statistician, or/and task leader on over 30 projects, mostly involving survey sample design, weighting, and variance estimation. Prior to being at Westat, Gary was a Senior Statistician at Abt Associates from 1993 to 1996, where he was the lead statistician for a number of surveys. From 1965 to 1993 Gary was at the U.S. Census Bureau. For almost 20 years of this period, he was an Assistant Chief of the Demographic Statistical Methods Division, where he oversaw the operation of up to five branches with the responsibility for sample design, weighting, and variance estimation for the demographic surveys. He is a co-founder of Statistics Without Borders, together with Steve Pierson and Fritz Scheuren. He served as initial SWB Co-Chair and then as Chair from 2010 to 2012.
Steve Pierson
Co-Founder, ASA Ex Officio Board Member
Executive Committee
Steve has been ASA Director of Science Policy since March, 2008. Previously, he was Head of Government Relations for the American Physical Society and Associate Professor of Physics at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Worcester, MA.