James Berger

Professor Berger is recognized as a leader in Bayesian analysis and the foundations of statistics.

After receiving his Ph.D. in mathematics at Cornell University in 1974, he taught at Purdue University as the Richard M. Brumfield Professor of Statistics until 1997, at which time he moved to Duke. His current research interests include Bayesian analysis and uncertainty quantification for complex computer models.

Berger was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) from 1995-1996 and of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis during 2004. He was the founding director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, serving from 2002-2010. He was co-editor of the Annals of Statistics from 1998-2000 and was a founding editor of the Journal on Uncertainty Quantification from 2012-2015.

Berger received the COPSS President’s Award in 1985, was the Fisher Lecturer in 2001, the Wald Lecturer of the IMS in 2007, and received the Wilks Award from the American Statistical Association in 2015. He was elected as a foreign member of the Spanish Real Academia de Ciencias in 2002, elected to the USA National Academy of Sciences in 2003, was awarded an honorary Doctor of Science degree from Purdue University in 2004, and became an Honorary Professor at East China Normal University in 2011.

He has supervised 38 Ph.D. students, written or edited 18 books, and published over 200 papers. According to Google Scholar, his work has been cited more than 70,000 times.

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