Dr. Nozer D. Singpurwalla
Chair Professor of Risk Analysis and Management
City University of Hong Kong
Education
- Ph.D. New York University. (1968)
- M.S. Rutgers University. (1964)
- B.S. B.V.B. College, India. (1959)
Nozer D. Singpurwalla is an Emeritus Professor of Statistics and Distinguished Research Professor at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. He has been Visiting Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, the Universityof Florida at Tallahassee, the University of California at Berkeley, the Santa Fe Institute and Oxford University (UK). During Fall 1991, he was the first C. C. Garvin Visiting Endowed Professor in the Mathematical Sciences at the Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University. He is Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Statistical Association, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He is the 1984 recipient of the U.S. Army's S. S. Wilks Award for Contributions to Statistical Methodologies in Army Research, Development and Testing, and the first recipient of The George Washington University's Oscar and Shoshana Trachtenberg Prize for Faculty Scholarship. He has coauthored two books in reliability and has published over 175 papers on reliability theory, warranties, failure data analysis, Bayesian statistical inference, dynamic models and time series analysis, quality control and statistical aspects of software engineering. In 1993 he was selected by the National Science Foundation, the American Statistical Association and the National Institute of Standards and Technology as the ASA/NIST/NSF Senior Research Fellow. In 1993 he was awarded a Rockefeller Foundation Grant as a Scholar in Residence at the Bellagio, Italy Center.