Abel is a Professor of Statistics at the University of Washington, and an affiliate member of the eScience Institute at the Center for Statistics in the Social Sciences. Currently, he also serves as the Chair of the Department of Statistics. 

Linda is Chief Mathematical Statistician and Director of Research and Development of USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). She works with others within and outside of NASS to continually improve the methodology underpinning the Agency’s collection and dissemination of data on every facet of U.S. agriculture. 

Tolulope Adeyina is a passionate and dedicated Ph.D. candidate in Data Science at the University of Texas at El Paso, El Paso Texas. His research focuses on the innovative application of Graph Neural Networks in addressing intricate challenges within the biological domain. 

Anna Fergusson is passionate about teaching, data technologies, and developing inclusive, engaging, accessible, effective and fun ways to introduce people to learning statistics and data science. She has over 20 years teaching experience, 12 years at the high school level and nearly 10 years at the university level. Anna has worked with the New Zealand Ministry of Education and the New Zealand Qualifications Authority on the development of national curriculum frameworks, assessment standards, examination papers, project-based tasks, and teaching resources for statistics.