Veronica Czitrom, PhD
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
Professional Experience - Dr. Veronica Czitrom started working in the semiconductor industry when she joined the Bell Labs group of AT&T (later Lucent Technologies) in 1990. She did statistical training and consulting for both the manufacturing and the research and development divisions of the Microelectronics Group (later Agere Systems). She worked at all their sites, including a nine-month assignment to the Madrid plant, a six-month assignment to SMP, their joint venture with Chartered Semiconductor in Singapore, and a two-year assignment to SEMATECH, the semiconductor industry consortium. She later joined Chartered Semiconductor, where she did statistical training and consulting for both the manufacturing and technology development groups and supported the Six Sigma initiative.
In 2003 she established her own business, Statistical Training & Consulting, based in Singapore. Since then she's been doing statistical training and consulting world-wide for International Rectifier (California, Italy, Wales, Arizona and the Philippines), Wafer Works (Taiwan) and in Singapore for Chartered Semiconductor, Tech Semiconductor, Hewlett Packard, Maxtor and SAS Institute.
Before joining industry, she was a professor at the University of Texas and at the National University of Mexico (UNAM) for a decade and a half.
Education - Dr. Czitrom obtained a PhD in mathematics with concentration in statistics from the University of Texas at Austin, as well as a BA in physics and an MS in engineering from the University of California at Berkeley.
Publications - Dr. Czitrom published the book Statistical Case Studies for Industrial Process Improvement. which provides 24 industrial applications of statistics on the topics of Design of Experiments (DOE), Statistical Process Control (SPC), Gauge Studies (R&R), Reliability and Passive Data Collection (Process Characterization). She has also published four engineering text books, as well as statistical papers in refereed journals and chapters in books.
Honours - She was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association and received the National Outstanding Technical Achievement Award from Hispanic Engineer. She is a Senior Member of the American Society for Quality. She was promoted to Distinguished Member of Technical Staff at Bell Labs Lucent Technologies and received several awards for establishing a mentorship program and for leadership in the woman’s group and other diversity initiatives. She was a physics honor student at the University of California at Berkeley.
Service to the Profession - She was elected Chair of the Quality and Productivity section of the American Statistical Association, organized a Quality and Productivity Research Conference, and established the Mary G. Natrella scholarship award. She has refereed papers for technical journals and been on the editorial board of Journal of Quality Technology, Quality Engineering and The American Statistician.
Personal - Veronica was born and raised in Mexico City, studied and lived for over two decades in the United States, and moved to Singapore in 2001 where she now lives and works as a Permanent Resident. Her interests include travel (especially in Asia), oriental art and culture, and reading and writing. She wrote and published an award-winning 300-page bilingual (English-Spanish) family history book, Carolyn and Laszlo:What a Life!, in collaboration with her brothers and daughter. She is proficient in English, Spanish and French. She has two children and one grandson.