STATISTICS FACULTY AT BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY

Department of Mathematics and Statistics

Jim Albert received his Ph.D. from Purdue University in 1979 and joined the Department in the same year. His areas of research interest include Bayesian modeling of discrete response data, Bayesian model selection, and item response theory. In addition, he is developing curriculum materials for the teaching of probability and statistics and has a keen interest in the applications of statistics to sports. He has supervised three doctoral students and is an associate editor of Journal of the American Statistical Association and Communications in Statistics. Representative publications:

Hanfeng Chen joined the Department in 1990, having obtained his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin - Madison in 1990 under the direction of Professor W.Y. Loh. His research interests include empirical likelihood methods, finite mixture models, large sample theory, statistical quality control, and transformation analysis. Selected publications:

John T. Chen joined the Department in 2000. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Sydney, Australia. His areas of research are statistical inference in biostatistics, step-wise multiple comparisons, probability inequalities, multivariate analysis, and statistical consulting. Recent publications:

Arjun K. Gupta joined the Department in 1976. He received his Ph.D. from Purdue University. His areas of research are primarily multivariate statistical analysis, analysis of categorical data, and applied statistics. He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Statisticians and the Royal Statistical Society of England. He is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He has supervised 16 doctoral students. He was named Distinguished University Professor in 1995 and is the recipient of the Olscamp Research Award in 1990. He is an associate editor of Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, Communications in Statistics, and Random Operators and Stochastic Equations. Recent publications:

Wei Ning received his Ph.D in Statistics from Syracuse University in 2006. His research field include the two-way ANOVA model, biostatistics, statistics in genetics, and clinical trials. Recent publications:

Truc T. Nguyen joined the Department in 1982, the same year he earned his Ph.D. from the University of Pittsburgh under A. R. Sampson. His research fields are contingency tables, characterization problems in statistics and goodness-of-fit tests, and order-restricted inference in statistics. Selected publications:

Maria Rizzo joined the Department in 2006. She obtained her Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University in 2002. Her research interests are multivariate statistics, goodness of fit tests, cluster analysis and classification, and computational statistics. Representative publications:

Junfeng Shang joined the Department in 2005, the same year she earned his Ph.D. from the University of Missouri, Columbia under Joseph Cavanaugh and Farroll Wright. Her research interests include mixed models, modeling diagnostics, model selection, multiple comparison procedures, and Bayesian analyses. Selected publications:

Gábor J. Székely joined the Department in 1995. He obtained his Ph.D. at the Eotvos L. University, Budapest in 1971 under the direction of Alfred Renyi. He works primarily in algebraic probability, stochastic optimization, and statistics. He received his D.Sc. from the Hungarian Academy of Sciences in 1986. He is the recipient of the Rollo Davidson Prize, University of Cambridge, 1988. Between 1989 and 1995 he was the chair of the Department of Stochastics at the Budapest Institute of Technology. He was visiting professor at Yale in 1989 and Distinguished Lukacs Professor in 1990-91. He has had eight Ph.D. students. Representative publications include:

Craig Zirbel joined the Department in 1996. He obtained his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1993 under the direction of Erhan Çinlar. He works primarily in stochastic processes, random flow models of complex fluid flows, and statistical mechanics for nonlinear partial differential equations. Representative publications and works in progress: