2021 Cycle II Forum

Dr. Alyson Wilson is the Associate Vice Chancellor for National Security and Special Research Initiatives at North Carolina State University. In this role, she works to expand collaboration between the university and its partners across a range of areas, including defense and national security, data science, and quantum computing. She is also a professor in the Department of Statistics and Principal Investigator for the Laboratory for Analytic Sciences.

Prior to joining NC State, Dr. Wilson was a research staff member at the IDA Science and Technology Policy Institute (2011-2013); an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University (2008-2011); a project leader and technical lead for Department of Defense Programs in the Statistical Sciences Group at Los Alamos National Laboratory (1999-2008); and a senior statistician and operations research analyst with Cowboy Programming Resources (1995-1999). She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science and a winner of the Army Wilks Memorial Award. In addition to numerous publications, Dr. Wilson has co-authored a book, "Bayesian Reliability," and has co-edited two other books, "Statistical Methods in Counterterrorism: Game Theory, Modeling, Syndromic Surveillance," and "Biometric Authentication and Modern Statistical and Mathematical Methods in Reliability." Dr. Wilson received her Ph.D. in Statistics from Duke University, her M.S. in Statistics from Carnegie-Mellon University, and her B.A. in Mathematical Sciences from Rice University.