Dr. Robertson has extensive experience in data collection and analysis, focusing on the evaluation of early intervention and various school and community-based programs for at-risk children and youth, including work on the Chicago Longitudinal Study (CLS) and the Abecedarian (ABC) preschool program. He has expertise within the areas of applied statistics in prevention and program evaluation research, the acquisition and use of administrative data and research design and methods.

Susan Murphy is the Professor of Computer Science at the Harvard John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, and a Professor of Statistics at the Radcliffe Institute, also at Harvard University. Prior to this, she was H.E. Robbins Professor of Statistics, Professor of Psychiatry and Research Professor at the Institute for Social Research, University of Michigan. She was a 2007-8 Invited Fellow at the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University and an 1998 IMS Special Invited Lecturer at the Joint Statistical meetings.