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]
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]
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]