Kary Myers
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Kary Lynn Myers is an American statistician whose research has included work on scientific data analysis and radiation monitoring. She is a scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where she has been the deputy leader of the Statistical Sciences group.[1][2] She is also known as the founder and organizer of the biennial Conference on Data Analysis (CoDA), for data-driven research within the United States Department of Energy.[3][4][5]
Myers went to high school in Montana, and left high school a year early to start her education at Carnegie Mellon University (CMU). However, she failed out of the mathematics program a year later, and after a return to Montana, began working at CMU as an administrative assistant in the Mellon College of Science. Taking CMU courses part-time through her work as an employee there, she completed a bachelor's degree in statistics, with honors and a minor in computer science,[4] in 1999.[1]
She remained at CMU, where she earned a master's degree in machine learning in 2002, and a Ph.D. in statistics in 2006.[1] Her dissertation, Developing Models to Reveal Brain Activation in Massive Neuroimaging Datasets, was supervised by Bill Eddy.[6] Her undergraduate work in statistics included methods for analyzing data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey, and her graduate work was supported by a fellowship from AT&T Labs Research and included internships with their artificial intelligence and machine learning departments.[7] She joined Los Alamos directly after completing her doctorate.[3]
