Person
Billard, Lynne (1943 - )
- Born
- 27 June 1943
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia - Occupation
- Statistician and Educator
Summary
Lynne Billard has worked to involve statisticians in solving problems of modern society. Her work on the incubation period of AIDS has impacted greatly on public health education. Billard has been president of the world's two largest statistical societies.
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Chronology
- 1966
- Education - Bachelor of Science with First Class Honours (BSc(Hons)), University of New South Wales
- 1969
- Education - Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), University of New South Wales
- 1975 - 1980
- Career position - Associate Professor at Florida State University, USA
- 1980 -
- Career position - Professor of Statistics, University of Georgia, USA
- 1980 - 1984
- Career position - Head of Computer Science, University of Georgia, USA
- 1980 - 1989
- Career position - Head of Statistics, University of Georgia, USA
- 1989 - 1991
- Career position - Associate Dean of the University of Georgia, USA
- 1992 -
- Career position - University Professor (Distinguished Chair), University of Georgia, USA
- 1994 - 1995
- Career position - President, International Biometric Society
- 1996
- Career position - President, American Statistical Association
- 1999
- Award - Alumni Award, University of New South Wales
Published resources
Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation Exhibitions
- McCarthy, Gavan; Morgan, Helen; Smith, Ailie; van den Bosch, Alan, Where are the Women in Australian Science?, Exhibition of the Encyclopedia of Australian Science and Innovation, First published 2003 with lists updated regularly edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, Victoria, 2003, https://eoas.info/exhibitions/wisa/wisa.html. Details
Journal Articles
- Billard, Lynne and Mukhopadhyay, N., 'A conversation with Lynne Billard', Statistical science, 32 (1) (2017), 138-64, https://www.jstor.org/stable/26408125. Details
Resources
- Wikidata, http://www.wikidata.org/entity/Q15428905. Details
- VIAF - Virtual International Authority File, OCLC, https://viaf.org/viaf/36998856. Details
- 'Billard, L (1943-)', Trove, National Library of Australia, 2009, https://nla.gov.au/nla.party-1080580. Details
See also
- Barber, Michael, 'The UNSW Cadets: pioneers at the birth of a new university', Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales, 158 (1) (2025), 32-49, https://www.royalsoc.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2025/07/158-1-04Barber.pdf. Details
- Herd, Margaret ed., Who's who in Australia 2002 (Melbourne: Crown Content, 2001), 2020 pp. Details
Ailie Smith
Created: 11 February 2003, Last modified: 15 April 2003