Claire McKay Bowen
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Claire McKay Bowen | |
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 Bowen in 2026 | |
| Alma mater | Idaho State University University of Notre Dame |
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| Fields | Statistics |
Claire McKay Bowen is an American statistician whose work focuses on data privacy, differential privacy, synthetic data, and their effects on the statistical analysis of economic data. She is a senior fellow and head of the statistical methods group in the Center on Labor, Human Services, and Population of the Urban Institute, an American think tank.[1]
Bowen grew up on a farm in Idaho.[2][3] After graduating from Salmon High School in Idaho, she majored in mathematics and physics, with a minor in statistics, at Idaho State University, earning a bachelor's degree there in 2012.[4] She became part of the first generation in her family to earn a college degree.[2]
She continued her studies in applied and computational mathematics and statistics at the University of Notre Dame. After a master's degree in 2015, she completed her Ph.D. in 2018.[4] Her dissertation, Data Privacy via Integration of Differential Privacy and Data Synthesis, was supervised by Fang Liu.[5]
She joined the Urban Institute in 2019, after a year of postdoctoral research at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, working with Joanne Wendelberger and Earl Lawrence.[4]