Krista Jennifer Gile is an American statistician known for her research on

respondent-driven sampling In sociology and statistics research, snowball sampling (or chain sampling, chain-referral sampling, referral sampling) is a nonprobability sampling technique where existing study subjects recruit future subjects from among their acquaintances. ...

, on

exponential random graph models Exponential family random graph models (ERGMs) are a family of statistical models for analyzing data from social network, social and network science, other networks. Examples of networks examined using ERGM include knowledge networks, organizationa ...

, and more generally on the statistical behavior of

social network A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for an ...

s. She is an associate professor in the department of mathematics and statistics of the

University of Massachusetts Amherst The University of Massachusetts Amherst (UMass Amherst, UMass) is a public research university in Amherst, Massachusetts and the sole public land-grant university in Commonwealth of Massachusetts. Founded in 1863 as an agricultural college, it ...

Education and career

Gile grew up in

Shrewsbury, Vermont Shrewsbury is a town in Rutland County, Vermont, United States. The town was named for the Earl of Shrewsbury Earl of Shrewsbury () is a hereditary title of nobility created twice in the Peerage of England. The second earldom dates to 1442. Th ...

, where her father Richard H. Gile was an engineer and businessman. She graduated in 1998 from the

Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute () (RPI) is a private research university in Troy, New York, with an additional campus in Hartford, Connecticut. A third campus in Groton, Connecticut closed in 2018. RPI was established in 1824 by Stephen Van ...

, where she majored in electrical engineering with a minor in sociology. After earning a master's degree in science and technology studies at

Virginia Tech Virginia Tech (formally the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and informally VT, or VPI) is a Public university, public Land-grant college, land-grant research university with its main campus in Blacksburg, Virginia. It also ...

in 2000, she worked from 2000 to 2003 as Assistant Director of Research at Advocates for Human Potential, Inc. In this period, she also continued to take graduate classes, delivered meals for the poor and taught mathematics to underprivileged girls. At the suggestion of an amateur rugby teammate and with the encouragement of a sociological theory professor, she returned to graduate school, studying statistics at the

University of Washington The University of Washington (UW, simply Washington, or informally U-Dub) is a public research university in Seattle, Washington. Founded in 1861, Washington is one of the oldest universities on the West Coast; it was established in Seattle a ...

, where she completed her doctorate in 2008. Her dissertation, ''Inference from Partially-Observed Network Data'', was supervised by Mark S. Handcock. After two years as a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at

Nuffield College, Oxford Nuffield College () is one of the constituent colleges of the University of Oxford in England. It is a graduate college and specialises in the social sciences, particularly economics, politics and sociology. Nuffield is one of Oxford's newer co ...

, she joined the UMass Amherst faculty in 2010.

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