Rate My Professor Rebecca Killick

Killick has received the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS) Young Statistician of the Year Award in 2019, the first UK recipient, recognizing her contributions to statistical models addressing real-world challenges. She joined the UK Young Academy in 2023. Professionally, she serves as Co-Editor in Chief of the Journal of Statistical Software (2020-present), Associate Editor for Data Science in Science (2021-present), ROpenSci (2021-present), and others, and holds roles including Secretary of the Royal Statistical Society Statistical Computing Section, Council Member of ENBIS, and member of the RSS Data Science Task Force and National Statistical Advisory Board. Her open-source changepoint package for R, available on CRAN, has been downloaded over 100,000 times, used by over 50 companies, and cited more than 500 times. Key publications include 'Optimal detection of changepoints with a linear computational cost' (Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2012), 'An R Package for Changepoint Analysis' (Journal of Statistical Software, 2014), and 'Detection of changes in variance of oceanographic time-series using changepoint methods' (EnviroMetrics, 2010). With over 7,100 citations on Google Scholar, her work has substantial impact in statistics and interdisciplinary fields.