Richard A. Davis
Department of Statistics

Biography

Richard Davis is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at Colorado State University. In 1979, he received a PhD degree in Mathematics from the University of California at San Diego, where he studied under the direction of Professor Murray Rosenblatt. He spent two years, 1979-1981, as an Instructor in Applied Mathematics at MIT before joining CSU as an Assistant Professor in Statistics. He has also held visiting appointments at several institutions, including the Center for Stochastic Processes at the University of North Carolina, the University of California at San Diego, the University of New South Wales, and the Melbourne Institute of Technology. Davis is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association, and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He is co-author (with Peter Brockwell) of the best selling books, Time Series: Theory and Methods , Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting , and the time series analysis computer software package, ITSM 2000 . In 1998, he won (with collaborator W.T.M Dunsmuir) the Koopmans Prize for Econometric Theory. He has been on the editorial boards of Stochastic Processes and Their Applications , Annals of Applied Probability , and the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. Currently, he is the Statistics Editor of the Proceedings of the American Mathematics Society and serves as the co-organizer (with James Stock of Harvard University) of the annual time series workshops sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the National Science Foundation. Recently, with colleagues in the statistics department, he was awarded an EPA-STAR grant that is used to support the Department's Space-Time Aquatic Resources Modeling and Analysis Program (STARMAP). In addition, the Departments of Biology, Mathematics and Statistics, along with quantitative ecologists at CSU, were awarded a NSF IGERT entitled "PRogram for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Ecology, and Statistics (PRIMES)". Davis is the PI of the grant and with Don Estep, is co-director of PRIMES. He served as Chair of the Department of Statistics 1997-2005.

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