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(i) Professional Preparation
Ph.D. in Statistics and Animal Science, Iowa State University, 1989
M.Sc. in Statistics, Iowa State University, 1986
M.Sc. in Animal Science, University of Illinois at Urbana, 1985
Ing. Agr., Universidad de la República, Uruguay, 1981
(ii) Appointments
2000–present Associate Provost, (three quarter-time appointment), Iowa State University
1990–2001 Assistant to Associate to Full Professor, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University
1997 Visiting Professor, Institute of Statistics and Decision Sciences, Duke University
1993 & 1996 Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile
1990 Post-doctoral Research Associate, Department of Economics and CARD, Iowa State Univ.
(iii) Selected publications most relevant to forensics
Carriquiry, A. L. In: Allen, R.J., and Redmayne, M. (eds). "Bayesian legal decision-making: impossible task?" Bayesianism and Juridical Proof. International Journal of Evidence and Proof, Special Issue (1997): 299-304.
Allen, R. J., and Carriquiry, A. L. "Factual ambiguity and a theory of evidence reconsidered: a dialogue between a statistician and a law professor." Israel Law Review 31 (1997): 464-505.
Carriquiry, A. L., Breidt, F. J., and Laksminarayan, P. G. "Sampling schemes for policy analyses using computer simulation experiments." Journal of Environmental Management 22 (1998): 505-515.
Breidt, F. J., and Carriquiry, A. L. "Highest density gates for multiple target tracking." IEEE Transactions on Aeronautics and Electronic Control 36 (2000): 47-55.
Daniels, M., and Carriquiry, A.L. "Computing the posterior distribution of individual level usual intakes with application to disease models." Research in Official Statistics 1 (2001): 67-81.
(iv) Synergistic Activities
a. Directly in Forensics. Dr. Carriquiry is a Principal Investigator on the grant entitled “Statistical treatment of class evidence” funded by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). October, 1998. $150,000 for one year. Co-Pis were M. Daniels and H. Stern. She was also an invited speaker at the Fourth International Conference on Forensic Statistics which was held at North Carolina State University, in Raleigh, North Carolina, in December 1999. Title of her presentation was: “Do bullets have fingerprints?” She was the co-instructor of the course: Statistical methods in forensic science, a short course presented to investigators and agents at the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) on May 8 and 9, 2000. She was also an invited speaker for the First Latin American Congress on Bayesian Statistics, that was held in Ubatuba, Brazil, in February 2002. The title of her presentation was: “Statistical methods for assessing trace evidence”. She was an invited speaker at the Fifth International Conference on Forensic Statistics that was held in Venice, Italy, in August 2002. The title of her presentation was: “An analysis of the volatility of the British Pound to guide arbitration decision”.