Alicia Carriquiry, is professor of statistics and director of graduate education at Iowa State University.  Her research interests are in Bayesian statistics and general methods.  Her recent work focuses on nutrition and dietary assessment, as well as on problems in genomics, forensic sciences and traffic safety. She currently teaches (and greatly enjoys!) the graduate-level courses on Bayesian data analysis and on multivariate statistical methods at Iowa State University, among others.

Carriquiry is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.  She has served on the Executive Committee of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and has been a member of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences since 1997. She is also a past president of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) and was recently elected Vice President of the American Statistical Association and a member of the Council of the International Statistical Institute. Dr. Carriquiry is Editor of Statistical Science and Associate Editor of The Annals of Applied Statistics and has served on several committees and panels of the National Academy of Sciences.  

Carriquiry received am MSc from the University of Illinois, and an MSc and a PhD from Iowa State University. Her undergraduate degree is in Agricultural Engineering, received in 1982 from the Universidad de la Republica, Uruguay. She was born and grew up in Montevideo, Uruguay.