Veronica Czitrom
Veronica A. Czitrom (also known as Anne Veronica Czitrom or Verónica Czitróm de Gerez) is a Mexican-American statistician who applies statistics to improve the quality of semiconductor manufacturing.
She was born in Mexico City and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, where she earned a BA in physics and an MS in engineering. She then earned a PhD in mathematics and statistics from the University of Texas at Austin in 1984, supervised by Peter William Meredith John. Her dissertation was “D-Optimal Experimental Designs and Alternative Models for Quadratic Blending with Process Variables.”
After her doctorate, she taught at the National Autonomous University of Mexico as a professor of systems engineering and applications. She later became an assistant professor of statistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio. In 1990 she moved to Bell Labs and was seconded for two years to SEMATECH. She then worked at Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in Singapore and in 2003 started her own statistical consulting firm, Statistical Training & Consulting, in Singapore.
Czitrom served as chair of the American Statistical Association’s Quality and Productivity Section in 2000, where she helped establish the Mary Gibbons Natrella scholarship for students attending the section’s conference. She co-authored Statistical Case Studies for Industrial Process Improvement (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1997) with Patrick D. Spagon. She also wrote four Spanish-language engineering textbooks with Victor Gerez Greiser and José Armando Torres Fentanes. She received the 1996 Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award and was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2000.
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