Dr. Gina Sigler
Dr. Gina Sigler is the Associate Director of the Scientific Test and Analysis Techniques (STAT) Center of Excellence (COE) headquartered at the Air Force Institute of Technology (AFIT). In her role, she works to apply advanced statistical methods to the continuum of test & evaluation (T&E). Her current STAT research efforts include the application of STAT to cyber security, T&E of black box AI systems, and STAT traceability in the digital thread.
She has been working at the STAT COE since 2018, where she managed the STAT support of more than 35 major acquisition programs across all the services. She was part of the AETC 2019 Air Force Analytic Team of the Year, runner up for the 2019 Air Force Team of the Year. Before joining the STAT COE, she worked as a faculty associate in the Statistics Department at the University of Wisconsin-Madison for three years where she taught undergraduate students, served as an undergraduate advisor, and headed the introductory statistics course redesign effort.
Education
PhD in Applied Mathematics (Statistics), Air Force Institute of Technology, 2023
Master of Science in Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 2014
Bachelor of Science in Statistics, Michigan State University, 2012
Publications
Accepted: D. Campbell, B. Mariani, P. Preito, G. S. Sigler, “Management of Distractions for Safe Medication Administration: A Multi-Site Study,” Nursing Education Perspectives, 2026.
D. K. Ahner and G. S. Sigler, “Analytical Test planning for Defense Acquisitions,” in Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research (2nd ed.), N. M. Scala and J. P. Howard II, Ed. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis Group, 2025, pp. 285-310.
G. S. Sigler, "Failure Distributions for Parallel Dependent Identical Weibull Components," Ph.D. dissertation, Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson AFB, OH, USA, 2023. Available: https://scholar.afit.edu/etd/7325/.
D. Campbell, S. Lugger, G. S. Sigler, C. Turkelson, “Increasing awareness, sensitivity and empathy for Alzheimer’s Dementia patients using simulation,” Nurse Education Today, vol 98, 2021.
D. K. Ahner and G. S. Sigler, “Analytical Test planning for Defense Acquisitions,” in Handbook of Military and Defense Operations Research, N. M. Scala and J. P. Howard II, Ed. Boca Raton, FL: Taylor & Francis Group, 2020, pp. 245-266.
C. W. Natoli, G. S. Sigler, S. A. Guldin, M. J. Harman, D. K. Ahner, “Design of Experiments in Characterizing Hypersonic Flow on a Wind Tunnel Model,” The ITEA Journal of Test and Evaluation, vol. 41, pp. 166-175, 2020.