Amy Braverman
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Amy J. Braverman is an American statistician who analyzes remote sensing data and climate models as a senior research scientist at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory.[1] She has also served as co-chair of the Climate Change Policy Advisory Committee of the American Statistical Association.[2]
Braverman graduated from Swarthmore College in 1982, with a bachelor's degree in economics. From 1983 to 1991 she worked in litigation support consulting in Los Angeles before studying statistics. She went to the University of California, Los Angeles for graduate study, earning a master's degree in mathematics and a Ph.D. in statistics in 1999.[1] Her dissertation, A Rate-distortion Approach to Massive Data Set Analysis, was advised by Don Ylvisaker.[3]
