Julia Lynn Sharp is an American mathematical statistician in the Applied and Computational Statistics Group at the National Institute of Standards and Technology in Fort Collins, Colorado, with expertise in the scientific applications of statistical problems involving longitudinal data, uncertainty analysis, mixed models, and the design of experiments.
She went to Montana State University for graduate study in statistics, earning a master's degree in 2001 and completing her Ph.D. in 2007.
In 2016 she moved to Colorado State University as associate professor and director of the Graybill Statistical Laboratory; she added an affiliation as adjunct faculty in biostatistics and informatics at the Colorado School of Public Health in 2018, and was promoted to full professor in 2022.
[4] She has held many leadership positions within the American Statistical Association, including chairing its Justice, Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Outreach Group in 2020.
[6] As a participant in the NCCC170 project, coordinating research in agricultural statistics,[7] she was a recipient of the 2021 American Society of Agronomy Presidential Award, presented to "all of the NCCC-170 and Experiment Station Statisticians".