Andreea Erciulescu

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Andreea Luisa Erciulescu is a Romanian statistician [1] who has worked in agricultural and official statistics, small area estimation, and survey methodology. She is an associate vice president for statistics and data science at Westat. [2]

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Education and career

Erciulescu majored in mathematics at Colorado State University, [2] [3] supported by a scholarship from the Romanian government and graduating in 2011. [1] During her studies there, she discovered an interest in statistics, [3] [1] and won in 2010 an AMS undergraduate poster presentation award for Solving Kakuro Puzzles . [4] She continued at Iowa State University for graduate study in statistics, where she received a master's degree and completed her Ph.D., [2] [3] in 2015. [5] Her dissertation, Small area prediction based on unit level models when the covariate mean is measured with error, was supervised by Wayne Fuller. [6]

She was a postdoctoral researcher [7] at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences from 2015 to 2018, [5] working there on projects associated with the National Agricultural Statistics Service. [3] In 2018 she moved to Westat as a senior statistician, [5] and has since become a vice president. [2]

Recognition

Erciulescu is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. [2] She was elected to the 2025 class of Fellows of the American Statistical Association. [8]

She was a third-place recipient of the 2022 Prize for Young Statisticians of the International Association for Official Statistics, the first US-based statistician to receive this award. [9]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "La studii in America (1) – Interviu Andreea Erciulescu", Plec La Studii (Interview) (in Romanian), April 12, 2013, retrieved 2025-04-28
  2. 1 2 3 4 5 "Andreea Erciulescu, Associate Vice President", Experts, Westat, retrieved 2025-04-28
  3. 1 2 3 4 Highlight: Meet NISS Research Associate Andreea Erciulescu, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, October 29, 2018, retrieved 2025-04-28
  4. Minutes of the AMS Executive Committee and Board of Trustees Meeting (PDF), American Mathematical Society, May 22, 2010, p. 10, retrieved 2025-04-30
  5. 1 2 3 "Andreea Luisa Erciulescu", ORCiD, retrieved 2025-04-28
  6. Erciulescu, Andreea Luisa (2015), Small area prediction based on unit level models when the covariate mean is measured with error (Ph.D. thesis), Iowa State University, ProQuest   1733954800
  7. Former postdocs, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, retrieved 2025-04-28
  8. ASA Recognizes 2025 Founders and Fellows, American Statistical Association, April 21, 2025, retrieved 2025-04-28
  9. "Andreea Erciulescu Receives 2022 IAOS Prize for Young Statisticians", In the news, Westat, June 17, 2022, retrieved 2025-04-28