Scott Vander Wiel is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, conducting statistics research at Los Alamos National Laboratory since 2005. He collaborates with engineers and scientists to analyze data and develop statistical methods for a rich set of problem domains such as nuclear forensics, meso-scale behavior of materials, radio astronomy, malware detection, power grid operation, rare event estimation, anomaly detection, and numerical optimization. Scott holds patents on methods for network traffic modeling and incremental quantile estimation. At LANL he is the Uncertainty Quantification project lead for the Advanced Certification Campaign. Scott earned a Ph.D. in Statistics from Iowa State University in 1991 and was a researcher at Bell Laboratories until 2005.