Dr. Andee Kaplan is an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University.
In 2024, Andee was awarded not one but two prestigious NSF grants—including the coveted NSF CAREER—to fund her work on developing computational tools to advance an issue in historical data recording called record linkage.
Her research interests lie in the intersection of Bayesian methodology and statistical computing, particularly as applied to large social science and ecological problems with complex dependence and messy data structures. Her research program has been supported by multiple grants, including the NSF CAREER (awarded 2024). Prior to joining Colorado State University, Andee spent two years as a Postdoctoral Associate at Duke University after completing her Ph.D. in Statistics from Iowa State University.
According to Andee, the greatest reward of this endeavor was less about winning the awards, but more so for having reached her goal of finishing the proposals and having a product she is proud to have others read. Ultimately, Andee says that writing these proposals has provided a roadmap and clarity toward her future path: “I’m mostly inspired to keep moving forward by the work itself. I would be working on these problems even if the grants were unfunded, but it’s wonderful to be able to pay my students to collaborate on this research.”