Robert Bell received a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University. He has been a member of the Statistics Research Department at AT&T Labs-Research since 1998. He previously worked for 18 years at RAND doing public policy analysis. His current research interests include machine learning methods, analysis of data from complex samples, and record linkage methods. He was a member of an international team that won the Netflix Prize competition. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Bell is a recognized expert on use of statistical methods in the decennial census, having served on four National Research Council panels advising the U.S. Census Bureau, one as chair, and the Census Advisory Committee of the American Statistical Association. He has served on the Fellows Committee of the American Statistical Association, the board of the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, and the Committee on National Statistics.

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