Luisa Erciulescu is a Romanian statistician who has worked in agricultural and

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, and

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. She is an associate vice president for statistics and data science at Westat.

Education and career

Erciulescu majored in mathematics at

Colorado State University Colorado State University (Colorado State or CSU) is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Fort Collins, Colorado, United States. It is the flagship university of the Colorado State University Syst ...

, supported by a scholarship from the Romanian government and graduating in 2011. During her studies there, she discovered an interest in statistics, and won in 2010 an

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undergraduate poster presentation award for ''Solving Kakuro Puzzles''. She continued at

Iowa State University Iowa State University of Science and Technology (Iowa State University, Iowa State, or ISU) is a Public university, public land-grant university, land-grant research university in Ames, Iowa, United States. Founded in 1858 as the Iowa Agricult ...

for graduate study in statistics, where she received a master's degree and completed her Ph.D., in 2015. Her dissertation, ''Small area prediction based on unit level models when the covariate mean is measured with error'', was supervised by

Wayne Fuller Wayne Arthur Fuller (born June 15, 1931) is an American statistician who has specialised in econometrics, survey sampling and time series analysis. He was on the staff of Iowa State University from 1959, becoming a Distinguished Professor in 1983 ...

. She was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences from 2015 to 2018, working there on projects associated with the

National Agricultural Statistics Service The National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) is the statistical branch of the U.S. Department of Agriculture and a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System. NASS has 12 regional offices throughout the United States and P ...

. In 2018 she moved to Westat as a senior statistician, and has since become a vice president.

Recognition

Erciulescu is an Elected Member of the

International Statistical Institute The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. At a meeting of the Jubilee Meeting of the Royal Statistical Society, statisticians met and formed the agreed statues of the International Statistical ...

. She was elected to the 2025 class of

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. She was a third-place recipient of the 2022 Prize for Young Statisticians of the International Association for Official Statistics, the first US-based statistician to receive this award.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Erciulescu, Andreea Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Romanian statisticians Women statisticians Romanian women scientists Romanian emigrants to the United States Colorado State University alumni Iowa State University alumni Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute Fellows of the American Statistical Association