Dr. Kelci Miclaus is Advanced Analytics Sr. Manager for the JMP Life Sciences division at SAS Institute where she manages the R&D team and develops statistical features for JMP Genomics and JMP Clinical software. She joined SAS in 2006 and holds a PhD in Statistics from North Carolina State University. In her role at SAS, she collaborates with researchers and provides thought-leadership through presentations at scientific meetings and conferences on statistical advances for analysis of genomic and clinical data in both agriculture and human health realms. Her research areas include genetic association and relatedness, early safety and efficacy signal detection, mixed models, pattern discovery, prediction modeling and machine learning.