Bio: Professor David Madigan is the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Northeastern University, where he is also a Professor of Statistics. Previously he served as Executive Vice President of Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty at Columbia University, and as Chair of Columbia’s Department of Statistics. He has also held positions at AT&T Inc., Rutgers University, and the University of Washington.

His research spans Bayesian statistics, text mining, Monte Carlo methods, pharmacovigilance, and probabilistic graphical models. He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematical Sciences and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Trinity College Dublin. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the AAAS, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of Statistical Science.

Bio: For the past 27 years, Gene A. Pennello has been a review and research statistician at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA), Center for Devices and Radiological Health (CDRH). At FDA, Gene’s official area of expertise is design and analysis of studies concerning diagnostic devices, with particular emphasis on drug-diagnostic co-development and evaluation of imaging systems. In 2020, Gene joined the Division of Imaging, Diagnostics, and Software Reliability (DIDSR), whose research includes addressing emerging challenges in regulatory assessment of artificial-intelligence(AI)-enabled medical devices. Gene is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA).