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The 37th annual Quality and Productivity Research Conference will be hosted by Florida State University in Tallahassee, Florida, July 26-29. This conference is the main annual meeting for the Quality and Productivity Section. The 2021 conference theme, Data Science and Statistics for Quality, reflects the changing nature of the discipline of statistics. The overall aim of the conference is promotion of data science in diverse applied areas, particularly those associated with the fields of quality and process control. Massive amounts of data are being collected on a daily basis-processed and analyzed in virtually every branch of modern society and every aspect of everyday life-so the science, quality, and statistical communities are obligated to keep up with the rapid growth and variety of collected data and provide up-to-date methodologies and guidance to those using this data. This conference will explore and promote ideas that further this goal. Statisticians, data scientists, and practitioners from these areas will propose and discuss the latest ideas and cutting-edge modern methodologies in all aspects of big data analysis and their applications. The conference will focus on the progress made in such computationally intensive fields such as data mining, machine learning, functional data analysis, image reconstruction, statistical process control, and uncertainty quantification.