Claire Kelling

NISS Position: 
IOF Committee Liaison
NISS Term Expiration: 
2026 Jun 30
Organization: 
Carleton College
Professional Title: 
Assistant Professor of Statistics

Claire is an Assistant Professor of Statistics at Carleton College. She recently completed my Dual PhD in Statistics and Social Data Analytics at Penn State. Before that, she earned degrees in Statistics and Economics at Virginia Tech. Throughout her academic, professional, and extracurricular activities, she has systematically chosen positions and experiences that have allowed her to develop the analytical skills, political awareness, and theoretical grounding to inform public policy. She has extensive experience in applying statistical tools to research problems that work towards social good. Last year, she was an NSF Big Data Social Science IGERT (Integrative Graduate Education and Research Traineeship) Fellow. Her past and current research lies at the intersection of criminology, public health, public policy, spatial statistics, and computing. She analyzed and created new spatio-temporal models of crime, while also incorporating social proximity through a network approach to neighborhoods. Throuogh her Big Data Social Science Fellowship, she has collaborated with statisticians, political scientists, sociologists, geographers, computer scientists, and many more.