At present I divide my efforts between two work streams: the Department Statistics in the Baskin School of Engineering (BSoE) at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC), where I've been a tenured full professor since 2001, and statistical consulting as CEO of the consulting firm Uncertainty Quantification LLC; clients have included RAND, the UK government, the Kaiser Permanente Research Division, eBay, Amazon, SoFi, and other leading organizations, including grant and contract work on behalf of the NIH..In my work I aspire to be a well-calibrated Bayesian statistician. This means that(a) I use optimal Bayesian statistical methods for inference, prediction and decision-making, but(b) I challenge the assumptions under which the methods in (a) are optimal, by using frequentist methods to pay attention to how often those methods get the right answer.My methodological research areas include model uncertainty and empirical model-building, hierarchical modeling, simulation-based Bayesian computation, Bayesian decision theory, Bayesian non-parametric methods, and the design and analysis of optimal controlled experiments and observational studies, with applications mainly in medicine, health policy, education, environmental risk assessment and data science.I'm a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (1990), the American Statistical Association (2007), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2009), the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2009), and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA, 2014); from 2001 to 2003 I was President-Elect, President and Past President of ISBA.In each of 1993, 1994 and 2003 I presented a Discussion (Read) Paper before the Royal Statistical Society.As of 31 Jan 2023 my work has been cited a total of 19,460 times; please see https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=pTjt47EAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=aofor details.
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