Dr. Heike Hofmann

Dr. Hofmann is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Professor in Charge of the Data Science Program at Iowa State University. She is the Associate Director of the Center for Statistics and Applications for Forensics Evidence (CSAFE).

Dr. Hofmann is an internationally recognized expert on data visualization. Her research on visual inference provides a framework to evaluate the statistical significance of a graphical finding, thereby establishing a p-value for a chart. Dr. Hofmann’s other work includes interactive statistical graphics, statistical computing, and methods for multivariate, in particular categorical data. Her most recent work is as part of the Center for Statistics and Applications for Forensic Evidence, where her focus is on techniques for matching striae on bullet lands. She has been a key contributor for the work that received the ASA SPAIG (Statistical Partnerships Among Academe, Industry & Government) award in 2018. She is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the International Statistics Institute.