Ashley Childress is a statistician at Zoetis, an animal health company. She supports the
company’s R&D areas, providing support with design of experiments, statistical process control,
data analysis and modeling, and statistics training to scientists and engineers. She received her
Master’s degree in Statistics from Virginia Tech and Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from
Emory & Henry College. She is a senior member of ASQ and a past chair of the ASQ Chemical
and Process Industries Division.
Bayesian Optimization is an approach that helps speed up the discovery of new materials by guiding experiments toward the most promising areas in an efficient and strategic way. The met...
