Joan Georgette Staniswalis (July 25, 1957 – April 13, 2018) was an American statistician who made "significant contributions to theory and biomedical applications" of statistics, including the effects of air quality and racial inequality on health.
[1] She attended California State University, Fullerton beginnining in 1975, and graduated in 1979, with high honors in mathematics and a minor in physics.
Her dissertation, Local Bandwidth Selection for Kernel Estimates, was supervised by John A.
She moved in 1990 to the University of Texas at El Paso (UTEP), where she was promoted to full professor in 1999.
She remained at UTEP for the rest of her career, with the exception of a term in 2001 as visiting professor and interim associate dean at New Mexico State University.