Diane Marie Lambert is an American statistician known for her work on

zero-inflated model In statistics, a zero-inflated model is a statistical model based on a zero-inflated probability distribution, i.e. a distribution that allows for frequent zero-valued observations. Zero-inflated Poisson One well-known zero-inflated model is D ...

s, a method for extending

Poisson regression In statistics, Poisson regression is a generalized linear model form of regression analysis used to model count data and contingency tables. Poisson regression assumes the response variable ''Y'' has a Poisson distribution, and assumes the logari ...

to applications such as the statistics of manufacturing defects in which one can expect to observe a large number of zeros. A former Bell Labs Fellow, she is a research scientist for

Google Google LLC () is an American multinational technology company focusing on search engine technology, online advertising, cloud computing, computer software, quantum computing, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and consumer electronics. ...

, where she lists her current research areas as "

algorithm In mathematics and computer science, an algorithm () is a finite sequence of rigorous instructions, typically used to solve a class of specific Computational problem, problems or to perform a computation. Algorithms are used as specificat ...

s and theory, data mining and modeling, and economics and

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Education and career

Lambert earned her Ph.D. in 1978 from the

University of Rochester The University of Rochester (U of R, UR, or U of Rochester) is a private research university in Rochester, New York. The university grants undergraduate and graduate degrees, including doctoral and professional degrees. The University of Roc ...

. Her dissertation, supervised by W. Jackson Hall, was ''P-Values: Asymptotics and Robustness''. In the early part of her career, she worked as a faculty member at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

. As an assistant professor there, she did pioneering work on the

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of statistical information. She earned tenure at Carnegie Mellon, but moved to

Bell Labs Nokia Bell Labs, originally named Bell Telephone Laboratories (1925–1984), then AT&T Bell Laboratories (1984–1996) and Bell Labs Innovations (1996–2007), is an American industrial research and scientific development company owned by mult ...

in 1986. At Bell Labs, she became head of statistics, and a Bell Labs Fellow. She moved again to Google in 2005.

Recognition

Lambert became 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 1991. She is also a Fellow of the

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts o ...

, was executive secretary of the institute from 1990 to 1993, and was one of the institute's Medallion Lecturers in 1995.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Lambert, Diane Marie Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians Women statisticians University of Rochester alumni Carnegie Mellon University faculty Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Google people