Snehalata V. Huzurbazar

Snehalata V. Huzurbazar is an American statistician, known for her work in statistical genetics, and also interested in applications of statistics to geology.[1] She is a professor of biostatistics, and chair of the biostatistics department, at the West Virginia University School of Public Health.[2]

Huzurbazar was born in Ames, Iowa. In 1984, she graduated from Grinnell College with an independently designed major that combined economics, history, sociology, and Spanish,[3] with a year off in Zagreb learning Croatian.[1] She earned a master's degree in economics from Vanderbilt University in 1988, with V. Kerry Smith as her advisor, and completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 1992 at Colorado State University.[3] Her dissertation, supervised by Ronald W. Butler, was Saddlepoint Approximations in Multivariate Analysis.[4] She joined the department of statistics of the University of Georgia in 1992,[3] moved to the University of Wyoming in 1995,[3][2] was on leave there from 2012 to 2014 while working as deputy director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina,[3][1] and moved to West Virginia University as chair in 2017.[2]

Huzurbazar is the daughter of noted Indian statistician V. S. Huzurbazar and the sister of noted statistician Aparna V. Huzurbazar,[5] whose husband, Brian J. Williams, is also a statistician.[1] All four are Fellows of the American Statistical Association; Snehalata was elected as a Fellow in 2017, her father in 1983, her sister in 2008, and Williams in 2015.[6]