Ingrid Kristine Glad
Ingrid Kristine Glad is a Norwegian statistician whose research topics have included nonparametric regression, DNA microarray data, and image processing. She is a professor of statistics and data science at the University of Oslo.Education and career
Glad was born in Oslo. After rebelling against her family by preferring mathematics to language, Glad studied physics and statistics at the Norwegian Institute of Technology. She is married to statistician Arnoldo Frigessi, and followed Frigessi to Italy for postdoctoral research before returning to Norway for her position at the University of Oslo.
As a teenager she worked a stint on a cargo ship, and her later research has also included using statistics to prevent shipping disasters.Recognition
Glad is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.
She was elected to the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters in 2019.
