Veronica A. Czitrom (also Anne Veronica Czitrom or Verónica Czitróm de Gerez) is a Mexican-American statistician known for her applications of statistics to the quality control of semiconductor manufacturing.
Veronica A. Czitrom | |
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| Scientific career | |
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| Thesis | D-Optimal Experimental Designs and Alternative Models for Quadratic Blending with Process Variables (1984) |
| Doctoral advisor | Peter William Meredith John |
Education and career
editCzitrom is originally from Mexico City. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in physics, continued at Berkeley for a master's degree in engineering,[1] and became a professor of systems engineering and applications at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.[2] Subsequently, she returned to graduate study in mathematics and statistics at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] Her 1984 doctoral dissertation, D-Optimal Experimental Designs and Alternative Models for Quadratic Blending with Process Variables, was supervised by Peter William Meredith John.[3]
After completing her doctorate, she became an assistant professor of statistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio.[1] She moved to Bell Labs in 1990, and was seconded from them for two years at SEMATECH. After moving to Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in Singapore, in 2003 she founded a statistical consulting firm in Singapore, Statistical Training & Consulting.[2]
She has also served the American Statistical Association as chair of its Quality and Productivity Section, in 2000. Her accomplishments as chair included the establishment of a scholarship in honor of Mary Gibbons Natrella, funding students to travel to the section's annual conference.[4]
Books
editWith Patrick D. Spagon, Czitrom is the author of the book Statistical Case Studies for Industrial Process Improvement (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1997).[5]
She is also the author of four Spanish-language textbooks on engineering:[1] Circuitos y sistemas electro-mecánicos (in two volumes, with Víctor Gerez Greiser, 1974 and 1975), Introducción al análisis de sistemas e investigación de operaciones (with Victor Gerez Greiser, 1978), and Métodos para la solución de problemas con computadora digital : problemas y ejemplos (with José Armando Torres Fentanes, 1980).
Recognition
editIn 1996, Czitrom was the winner of a Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award for technical contributions in industry.[1] In 2000, the American Statistical Association honored her as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[6]
References
edit- ^ a b c d e "1996 Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Awards", Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology (Conference Issue), p. 28, 1996
- ^ a b Veronica Czitrom, PhD, Statistical Training & Consulting, archived from the original on 2015-02-18
- ^ Veronica Czitrom at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ Croarkin, M. Carroll (January 2001), "Experimental Statistics", in Lide, David R. (ed.), A Century of Excellence in Measurements, Standards, and Technology (PDF), NIST Special Publication, vol. 958, pp. 132–134
- ^ Reviews of Statistical Case Studies for Industrial Process Improvement:
- Kimber, Alan (1998), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), 47 (4): 708, JSTOR 2988375
{{citation}}: CS1 maint: untitled periodical (link) - Ziegel, Eric R. (May 1998), Technometrics, 40 (2): 163, doi:10.2307/1270663, JSTOR 1270663
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- Kimber, Alan (1998), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series D (The Statistician), 47 (4): 708, JSTOR 2988375
- ^ ASA Fellows List, retrieved 2020-01-23