Krista Gile

Krista Jennifer Gile is an American statistician known for her research on respondent-driven sampling, on exponential random graph models, and more generally on the statistical behavior of social networks.^[1] She is an associate professor in the department of mathematics and statistics of the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Education and career[edit]

Gile grew up in Shrewsbury, Vermont, where her father Richard H. Gile was an engineer and businessman.^[2] She graduated in 1998 from the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, where she majored in electrical engineering with a minor in sociology. After earning a master's degree in science and technology studies at Virginia Tech in 2000, she worked from 2000 to 2003 as Assistant Director of Research at Advocates for Human Potential, Inc.^[3] In this period, she also continued to take graduate classes, delivered meals for the poor and taught mathematics to underprivileged girls.^[1]

At the suggestion of an amateur rugby teammate and with the encouragement of a sociological theory professor, she returned to graduate school,^[1][2] studying statistics at the University of Washington, where she completed her doctorate in 2008.^[3] Her dissertation, Inference from Partially-Observed Network Data, was supervised by Mark S. Handcock.^[4] After two years as a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford, she joined the UMass Amherst faculty in 2010.^[3]

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External links[edit]

• Home page
• Krista Gile publications indexed by Google Scholar