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Nozer D. Singpurwalla

Doctor of Sci., Professor

 

Director, Institute for Reliability and Risk Analysis,

The George Washington University

 

Positions held:

 

1969 - present

Distinguished Research Professor, Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University

 

 

1977 - present

Professor, Department of Statistics, Columbian College of  Arts and Sciences, The George Washington University

 

 

1981 - present

Director, Institute for Reliability and Risk Analysis, The George Washington University

 

 

 

Education

  • Ph.D. New York University. (1968)

  • M.S. Rutgers University. (1964)

  • B.S. B.V.B. College, India. (1959)

Brief biography

  • Nozer D. Singpurwalla has been Visiting Professor at Carnegie-Mellon University, Stanford University, the University of Florida at Tallahassee, and the University of California at Berkeley. 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 a standard book in reliability and has published 157 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.

Research interests

  • Specialty areas: Applied probability and Bayesian statistics; reliability theory, warranties, and quality control; time series analysis; fault tree analysis; filtering theory; uncertainty in expert systems, and failure data analysis.

  • Research projects: Warranty analysis; applications of Kalman filtering; Bayesian perspectives on tolerancing; practical issues in reliability, sensor fusion and tracking.

Office:     2140 Pennsylvania Ave, Room 304

Phone:    (202) 994-7515

Fax:         (202) 994-6917

e-mail:    nozer@gwu.edu