Rob Gould

University of California, Los Angeles

Rob is a teaching professor and vice-chair of undergraduate studies in the Department of Statistics at UCLA.  He has been active in statistics education and data science education since 1994. As lead principal investigator of the Mobilize project, he is the architect of the Mobilize Introduction to Data Science course, a year-long high school course implemented in 16 school districts. He is the founder of DataFest, a 48-hour undergraduate data analysis competition sponsored by the American Statistical Association and held at 42 sites around the world. He is also co-author with Colleen Ryan and Rebecca Wong with an introductory statistics book published by Pearson Higher Education. Rob was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2012 and in 2019 was awarded the CAUSE Lifetime Achievement Award for Statistics Education and the American Statistical Association Waller Distinguished Teaching Career Award.