Ingrid Van Keilegom

Ingrid Van Keilegom (born 24 December 1971 in Antwerp) is a Belgian statistician. She is a professor of statistics at KU Leuven, and a part-time professor at the Université catholique de Louvain. Her research interests include survival analysis, non- and semiparametric regression, quantile regression, measurement errors, and mathematical statistics.^[1]

Education and career

Van Keilegom earned a licentiate in mathematical sciences from Universitaire Instelling Antwerpen in 1993, a master's degree in biostatistics from Limburgs Universitair Centrum in 1998,^[1] and a doctorate in statistics from Limburgs Universitair Centrum in 1998. Her dissertation, Nonparametric estimation of the conditional distribution in regression with censored data, was supervised by Noël Veraverbeke.^[1][2]

After working as an assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University (1998–1999) and Eindhoven University of Technology (1999–2000), she returned to Belgium in 2000 with a position at the Université catholique de Louvain. In 2016 she switched her full professorship there to a part-time position, to take another full professorship at KU Leuven.^[1]

Recognition

Ingrid Van Keilegom gave the IMS Medallion lecture at the 2023 Joint Statistical Meetings in Toronto, Canada. She was awarded a Honorary Doctorate from the University of A Coruña in Spain in 2022. She became an Elected member of the Royal Flemish Academy of Belgium for Science and the Arts in 2021. Van Keilegom has also been a Fellow of the American Statistical Association since 2013,^[1][3] and she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2008 "for contributions to statistical theory and methodology, especially semi- and nonparametric regression, survival analysis, and empirical likelihood methods."^[4]