Antonio Possolo, Ph.D.

Dr. Antonio Possolo is a NIST Fellow and the Chief Statistician in the Statistical Engineering Division. Besides his current role at NIST, he has had over 20 years of experience as a statistician in industry (General Electric, Boeing) and as an assistant professor of statistics (Princeton University, and University of Washington). His areas of specialty include spatial statistics and modeling of spatio-temporal phenomena, environmental remote sensing, foundations of probability theory and of statistical inference, and measurement uncertainty. He is also fluent in Portuguese, Spanish, and French.