Noel Cressie was born in Fremantle, Western Australia. He received the Bachelor of Science degree with first class honours in Mathematics from the University of Western Australia and the MA and PhD degrees in Statistics from Princeton University.
He was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at The Flinders University of South Australia and Professor of Statistics and Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University; and he is now Professor of Statistics, Distinguished Professor of Mathematical and Physical Sciences, and Director of the Program in Spatial Statistics and Environmental Statistics at The Ohio State University.
He is the author of around 250 refereed articles and of three books, including "Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data," with Christopher K. Wikle, 2011 (Wiley). His research interests are in the statistical modeling and analysis of spatial and spatio-temporal data, in Bayesian and empirical-Bayesian methods, and in environmental sciences.
Dr Cressie is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the Spatial Econometrics Association, and he is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. Other honors include being awarded the Distinguished Achievement Medal of ASA's Section on Statistics and the Environment, the Twentieth Century Distinguished Service Award in Environmental Statistics, the Distinguished Scholar Award of The Ohio State University, and the 2009 Fisher Award and Lectureship from COPSS.
