Snehalata V. Huzurbazar is an American statistician, known for her work in

statistical genetics Statistical genetics is a scientific field concerned with the development and application of statistical methods for drawing inferences from genetic data. The term is most commonly used in the context of human genetics. Research in statistical gen ...

, and also interested in applications of statistics to

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. She is a professor of biostatistics, and chair of the biostatistics department, at the

West Virginia University School of Public Health The West Virginia University School of Public Health is a school of public health located in the United States city of Morgantown in the state of West Virginia; the WVU School of Public Health is the only School of Public Health in the state of We ...

. Huzurbazar was born in

Ames, Iowa Ames () is a city in Story County, Iowa, United States, located approximately north of Des Moines in central Iowa. It is best known as the home of Iowa State University (ISU), with leading agriculture, design, engineering, and veterinary medici ...

. In 1984, she graduated from

Grinnell College Grinnell College is a private liberal arts college in Grinnell, Iowa, United States. It was founded in 1846 when a group of New England Congregationalists established the Trustees of Iowa College. Grinnell has the fifth highest endowment-to-st ...

with an independently designed major that combined

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, and

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, with a year off in

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learning Croatian. She earned a master's degree in economics from

Vanderbilt University Vanderbilt University (informally Vandy or VU) is a private research university in Nashville, Tennessee. Founded in 1873, it was named in honor of shipping and rail magnate Cornelius Vanderbilt, who provided the school its initial $1-million ...

in 1988, with V. Kerry Smith as her advisor, and completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1992 at

Colorado State University Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a public land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University System. Colorado State University is classified among "R1: ...

. Her dissertation, supervised by Ronald W. Butler, was ''Saddlepoint Approximations in Multivariate Analysis''. She joined the department of statistics of the

University of Georgia , mottoeng = "To teach, to serve, and to inquire into the nature of things.""To serve" was later added to the motto without changing the seal; the Latin motto directly translates as "To teach and to inquire into the nature of things." , establ ...

in 1992, moved to the

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in 1995, was on leave there from 2012 to 2014 while working as deputy director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute in

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, and moved to West Virginia University as chair in 2017. Huzurbazar is the daughter of noted Indian statistician V. S. Huzurbazar and the sister of noted statistician

Aparna V. Huzurbazar Aparna V. Huzurbazar is an American statistician known for her work using graphical models to understand time-to-event data. She is the author of a book on this subject, ''Flowgraph Models for Multistate Time-to-Event Data'' (Wiley, 2004). Huzurb ...

, whose husband, Brian J. Williams, is also a statistician. All four are

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; Snehalata was elected as a Fellow in 2017, her father in 1983, her sister in 2008, and Williams in 2015.

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