Speaker
Dr. James Stephen Marron, Amos Hawley Distinguished Professor of Statistics and Operations Research, and Professor of Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Fellow of IMS and ASA, Elected Member of ISI.
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Murray/Ollivier Address
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About the Speaker:
Dr. James Stephen Marron is the Amos Hawley Distinguished Professor in UNC's Department of Statistics and Operations Research as well as a professor in the Department of Biostatistics at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health.
Dr. Marron is widely recognized as a world research leader in the statistical disciplines of high dimensional, functional and object oriented data analysis, as well as data visualization. He has made broad major contributions ranging from the invention of innovative new statistical methods, through software development and on to statistical and mathematical theory.
His research continues with a number of ongoing deep, interdisciplinary research collaborations with colleagues in Computer Science, Genetics, Medicine, Mathematics and Biology. A special strength is his strong record of mentoring graduate students, postdocs and junior faculty, in both statistics and also related disciplinary fields.
Dr. Marron has received numerous prestigious honors in recognition of his contributions to statistics and mathematics. He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. His influence is reflected in his ranking as #15 on the ISI list of the world’s most highly cited mathematicians (1991–2001).
He holds the title of Amos Hawley Distinguished Professor at UNC-Chapel Hill, and has been invited to deliver several distinguished lectures, including the S. N. Roy Memorial Lecture at the University of Calcutta, the Ralph Bradley Lecture at the University of Georgia, and the Saw Swee Hock Distinguished Visiting Professorship at the National University of Singapore (2015).