Claire Bowen, ACMS (PhD'18) was elected as an American Statistical Association (ASA) Fellow in 2024 "For her significant contributions in the field of statistical data privacy, leadership activities in support of the profession, and commitment to mentoring the next generation of statisticians and data scientists."
Bowen is the first alumni from ACMS to be elected as an ASA fellow, a prestigious recognition and the fellow designation limited to one-third of 1% of membership each year. At Notre Dame, Bowen worked with Professor Fang Liu on her doctoral thesis titled "Data Privacy via Integration of Differential Privacy and Data Synthesis"
Bowen is currently a senior fellow and leads the Data Governance and Privacy Practice Area at the Urban Institute. Her research focuses on developing technical and policy solutions that aim to safely expand access to confidential data for advancing evidence-based policy-making. She also has interests in improving science communication and integrating data equity into the data privacy process. Further, she is a member of the Census Scientific Advisory Committee and several other data governance and data privacy committees as well as an adjunct professor at Stonehill College.