Ms. Jianfen Ding is the Chief Research Statistician at JMP Statistical Discovery LLC, which designs interactive and highly visual statistical discovery software for scientists and engineers. During her 26-year career at JMP, she has developed and supported a variety of statistical tools, such as multivariate, principal components, factor analysis, partial least squares, multiple correspondence analysis, and model-driven multivariate control charts in JMP. She is a member of the American Statistical Association and has extensive collaborations with statistical researchers in academia and industry. Ms. Ding received her bachelor’s degree in meteorology from Nanjing University, China. She holds dual master’s degrees in ocean, earth and atmospheric sciences and statistics from North Carolina State University, USA.