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Meet Joseph Kosler

I'm originally from San Antonio, TX, and since 1990 I've also lived in Columbus, OH, Washington, DC, and Cleveland. My undergraduate work was done as a Math major and Physics minor and Education enthusiast at Trinity University in San Antonio. After I completed the Texas state secondary teacher certification requirements in 1990, I decided to go to graduate school. I had excelled in Statistics while working on the math degree, and I chose to pursue Statistics at the Ohio State University Department of Statistics.

Since 1990, I have worked in teaching, research, and consulting at OSU, but most notably as a lecturer. My first lecture was assigned to me in 1991, Statistics for Business majors, and for 2001-2002, I served as a visiting faculty member and course coordinator for the OSU Department of Statistics.

Throughout graduate school, I also had opportunity to experience Statistics outside the university. I spent three summers as an intern at the Bureau of the Census in the Statistical Research Division. I also worked for six months with a chemical company on a project to develop a marketing research tool based on decades of historical data.

In the late 1990's, I took a break from graduate school and worked as an Y2K Analyst reviewing and renovating legacy code that threatened to fail in the millennial year. I returned to graduate school on January 1st of 2000.

My current research and doctoral dissertation are grounded in the problem of missing data. Surveys and experiments are often complicated by the presence of corrupted or absent responses. This area of research has proven to be fruitful and interesting from theory all the way to practice, and I plan to continue my involvement with missing data.