Dr. Regina Nuzzo is a freelance science writer and professor in Washington, DC. After studying engineering as an undergraduate, she earned her PhD in Statistics from Stanford University. Currently she’s a Professor teaching Statistics in American Sign Language at Gallaudet University, the world’s only university for deaf and hard-of-hearing students, and a part-time Lecturer at Stanford University, where she co-teaches a course for the Masters in Clinical Informatics Management program in the School of Medicine.

Dr. Nuzzo is also a graduate of Science Communication program at the University of California-Santa Cruz. Her science journalism specialties center around data, probability, statistics, and the research process. Her work has appeared in Nature, Los Angeles Times, New York Times, Reader’s Digest, New Scientist, and Scientific American, among others. Her feature article on p-values in Nature earned the American Statistical Association’s 2014 Excellence in Statistical Reporting Award.

Dr. Nuzzo has been invited to speak around the world to a variety of audiences about her work, such as why we just can’t understand p-values, how our brain can fool us during data analysis, what happens when people abuse and misuse statistics, and tips and tricks for communicating anything with numbers and statistics.