Rob Gould is currently the vice chair of the Department of Statistics and director of the Center for the Teaching of Statistics at UCLA. He got his Bachelor of Science in applied mathematics at Harvey Mudd College. After receiving his doctorate in mathematics from the University of California, San Diego, Gould was an adjunct assistant professor at UCLA’s Department of Mathematics until the Statistics Department was created four years later. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and serves on the ASA DataFest Planning Committee. He is also the faculty advisor of the California Math Project.