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Appendix A: Biographical Information of Committee and Staff
Pages 11-16

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... , and has chaired that section, as well as the ASA sections on Risk Analysis and on Statistical Learning and Data Mining. In 2003, he led a research program at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute (SAMSI)
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... From 2001 until 2006, McNamara represented the district attorney's office on the Joint Terrorism Task Force. During his tenure as district attorney, he created an Economic Crime Unit, a Conviction Integrity Unit, and a Second Chance Program and was appointed a community liaison to improve communication between the district attorney's office and the diverse
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... He is also the President-elect of the District Attorneys Association of the State of New York and a current member of the Committee of the Center for Prosecutor Integrity, reviewing law enforcement use of the "victim-centered" investigation approach. McNamara was a member of the National Academies' committee that issued the 2014 report Identifying the Culprit: Assessing Eyewitness Identification.
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... Professor Zabell has had a long-standing involvement in the legal applications of statistics, including serving on three panels of the National Research Council and teaching courses on statistics at both the University of Chicago and Northwestern law schools. One of his primary interests at present is forensic science, in particular the statistical issues arising from the use of DNA in human identification.
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... Mazza divided her time between the National Academies and the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, where she served as a senior policy analyst responsible for issues associated with a Presidential Review Directive on the government-university research partnership. Before joining the National Academies, Dr.
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... During his National Academies' career, he has staffed studies on a wide variety of topics related to mathematical, chemical, and materials sciences, laboratory assessment, risk analysis, and science and technology policy. His current focus is on building up the National Academies' capabilities and portfolio related to all areas of analysis and computational science.
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