Veronica Czitrom

Czitrom is originally from Mexico City. She graduated from the University of California, Berkeley with a bachelor's degree in physics, continued at Berkeley for a master's degree in engineering,[1] and became a professor of systems engineering and applications at the National Autonomous University of Mexico.[2] Subsequently, she returned to graduate study in mathematics and statistics at the University of Texas at Austin.[1] Her 1984 doctoral dissertation, D-Optimal Experimental Designs and Alternative Models for Quadratic Blending with Process Variables, was supervised by Peter William Meredith John.[3]

After completing her doctorate, she became an assistant professor of statistics at the University of Texas at San Antonio.[1] She moved to Bell Labs in 1990, and was seconded from them for two years at SEMATECH. After moving to Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing in Singapore, in 2003 she founded a statistical consulting firm in Singapore, Statistical Training & Consulting.[2]

She has also served the American Statistical Association as chair of its Quality and Productivity Section, in 2000. Her accomplishments as chair included the establishment of a scholarship in honor of Mary Gibbons Natrella, funding students to travel to the section's annual conference.[4]

With Patrick D. Spagon, Czitrom is the author of the book Statistical Case Studies for Industrial Process Improvement (Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics, 1997).[5]

She is also the author of four Spanish-language textbooks on engineering:[1] Circuitos y sistemas electro-mecánicos (in two volumes, with Víctor Gerez Greiser, 1974 and 1975), Introducción al análisis de sistemas e investigación de operaciones (with Victor Gerez Greiser, 1978), and Métodos para la solución de problemas con computadora digital : problemas y ejemplos (with José Armando Torres Fentanes, 1980).

In 1996, Czitrom was the winner of a Hispanic Engineer National Achievement Award for technical contributions in industry.[1] In 2000, the American Statistical Association honored her as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[6]