Bonnie Kathryn Ray is an American statistician and data scientist, the head of data science at

Chartbeat Chartbeat is a technology company that provides data and analytics to global publishers. The company was started in 2009 and is headquartered in New York City, US. The software as a service (SaaS) company integrates code into the websites of publi ...

, a publisher data analytics firm. Her publications in statistics have concerned

long-range dependence Long-range dependence (LRD), also called long memory or long-range persistence, is a phenomenon that may arise in the analysis of spatial or time series data. It relates to the rate of decay of statistical dependence of two points with increasing t ...

, change detection,

orthogonal defect classification Orthogonal Defect Classification (ODC) turns semantic information in the software defect stream into a measurement on the process. The ideas were developed in the late '80s and early '90s by Ram Chillarege at IBM Research. This has led to the develo ...

, and wide-ranging applications including

financial market A financial market is a market in which people trade financial securities and derivatives at low transaction costs. Some of the securities include stocks and bonds, raw materials and precious metals, which are known in the financial markets ...

analysis, climate models, and

software engineering Software engineering is a systematic engineering approach to software development. A software engineer is a person who applies the principles of software engineering to design, develop, maintain, test, and evaluate computer software. The term '' ...

Education and career

Ray is originally from

Mississippi Mississippi () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States, bordered to the north by Tennessee; to the east by Alabama; to the south by the Gulf of Mexico; to the southwest by Louisiana; and to the northwest by Arkansas. Miss ...

, and grew up in northern

Louisiana Louisiana , group=pronunciation (French: ''La Louisiane'') is a state in the Deep South and South Central regions of the United States. It is the 20th-smallest by area and the 25th most populous of the 50 U.S. states. Louisiana is borde ...

. She majored in mathematics at

Baylor University Baylor University is a private Baptist Christian research university in Waco, Texas. Baylor was chartered in 1845 by the last Congress of the Republic of Texas. Baylor is the oldest continuously operating university in Texas and one of the fir ...

, where she was president of the Mu Sigma Beta mathematics honor society, and held summer internships at

Texas Instruments Texas Instruments Incorporated (TI) is an American technology company headquartered in Dallas, Texas, that designs and manufactures semiconductors and various integrated circuits, which it sells to electronics designers and manufacturers globall ...

. She graduated

Phi Beta Kappa The Phi Beta Kappa Society () is the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and the most prestigious, due in part to its long history and academic selectivity. Phi Beta Kappa aims to promote and advocate excellence in the liberal a ...

in 1985, and completed a Ph.D. in statistics at

Columbia University Columbia University (also known as Columbia, and officially as Columbia University in the City of New York) is a private research university in New York City. Established in 1754 as King's College on the grounds of Trinity Church in Manhatt ...

in 1991. Her dissertation, ''Fractionally Differenced ARMA Processes: Seasonality and Forecasting Issues'', was jointly supervised by Jonathan Hosking and

Howard Levene Howard Levene (January 17, 1914 – July 2, 2003) was an American statistician and geneticist. He received his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 1947, and joined the faculty there shortly thereafter. He remained on the faculty at Columbia, where h ...

. After postdoctoral research with Peter Lewis at the

Naval Postgraduate School The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is a public graduate school operated by the United States Navy and located in Monterey, California. It offers master’s and doctoral degrees in more than 70 fields of study to the U.S. Armed Forces, DOD ci ...

, she became an assistant professor of mathematics at the

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, and earned tenure there before moving to the Thomas J. Watson Research Center of IBM Research in 2001. At IBM she spent two years as program manager for analytics and optimization at IBM's China Research Laboratory in Beijing, and eventually became senior manager for data and decision analytics and director of cognitive algorithms. In 2015, Ray moved from IBM to become vice president of data science at

Talkspace Talkspace is an online and mobile therapy company based in New York City. It was founded by Oren and Roni Frank in 2012. Talkspace users have access to licensed therapists through the website or mobile app on iOS and Android. Talkspace has made q ...

, an online and mobile therapy company, before moving again to her present position at Chartbeat.

Recognition

Ray was elected as a

Fellow of the American Statistical Association Like many other academic professional societies, the American Statistical Association (ASA) uses the title of Fellow of the American Statistical Association as its highest honorary grade of membership. The number of new fellows per year is limited ...

in 2005.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Ray, Bonnie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American women statisticians Baylor University alumni Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni New Jersey Institute of Technology faculty IBM Research computer scientists Fellows of the American Statistical Association 21st-century American women