Anne Driscoll awarded Jean Dickinson Gibbons Faculty Fellowship in Statistics

Anne Driscoll, collegiate associate professor of statistics, has been awarded a Jean Dickinson Gibbons Faculty Fellowship in Statistics by the Virginia Tech Board of Visitors.

The Jean Dickinson Gibbons Faculty Fellowship in Statistics was established in 2023 with a gift from its namesake to enhance the national and international prominence of Virginia Tech’s Department of Statistics. Gibbons, who earned her Ph.D. in statistics from Virginia Tech, established this fellowship to support the teaching, service, and research of a faculty member within the statistics department.

A Virginia Tech collegiate faculty member since 2016, Driscoll’s research focuses on statistical quality control and has been published in top journals that include the Journal of Quality Technology and Quality Engineering.

Her work is recognized internationally, leading to invited talks at conferences such as the International Symposium on Statistical Process Monitoring in Spain and the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics in Belgium. She also serves on NASA’s Composite Overwrapped Pressure Vessels Analytical Team. She has served on 28 master's degree and Ph.D. committees from a variety of departments.

Driscoll also led the development of Virginia Tech’s undergraduate program in statistics and in creating the successful data analysis and applied statistics graduate program.

She received her bachelor’s degree from Emory and Henry College and her master’s degree and Ph.D. from Virginia Tech.