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Peter Craigmile (pfc@stat.osu.edu)
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University.
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Peter F. Craigmile received a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Glasgow, Scotland, in 1996. He received a Diploma in Mathematical Statistics from Cambridge University, England in 1997, and a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington, Seattle in 2000. He is currently an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at The Ohio State University, Columbus. In 2011, Peter was awarded the El-Shaarawi Young Researcher's Award in recognition of outstanding contributions in the field of environmetrics.

His research interests involve stationary and non-stationary time series models, long memory processes, spectral analysis, and wavelet methods. More recently he has started working with geostatistical processes. Recent applications of his research to scientific areas include hierarchical Bayesian modeling for human exposures, speech and hearing sciences, ice-core paleoclimatology, response-time data, and online methods for biosurveillance.

See also Craigmile's web-page.


Noel Cressie (ncressie@stat.osu.edu)
Professor, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University.
Noel Cressie 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 in Statistics from Princeton University.

He was Lecturer and Senior Lecturer at The Flinders University of South Australia; then Professor of Statistics and Distinguished Professor in Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University; and he is currently 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 Lecturership from COPSS.

See also Cressie's web-page.



Tom Santner (tjs@stat.osu.edu)
Professor, Department of Statistics, The Ohio State University.
Tom Thomas Santner was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1947 and was raised in the Missouri and Ohio areas, graduating as Valedictorian from Purcell High School in Cincinnati in 1965. He received a B.S. in Mathematics with a Minor in Computer Science in 1969 from the University of Dayton, and the M.S. and Ph.D degrees in Statistics in 1971 and 1973, respectively, both from Purdue University. His thesis adviser was Professor Shanti Gupta. He joined the School of Operations Research in the Engineering College of Cornell University in 1973, where he became Professor of Statistics in 1986. He joined the Ohio State University, Department of Statistics, as Professor and Director of the OSU Statistical Consulting Service in 1990.

Most recently, his research interests have been in the design and analysis of computer experiments and the analysis of environmental data. He has had a long-time collaboration with members of the Cornell Hospital, Special Surgery Biomechanics Program, on the engineering design of better prosthetic devices, which is accomplished, in part, by the use of sophisticated computer codes. He is also a participant in the Sources-to-Biomarkers project described on the SSES Research webpage.

Professor Santner is the co-author of three books. The latest book (with W. Notz and B. Williams) describes strategies to plan the running of complex computer codes ("computer experiments") and methodology to analyze the resulting output, depending on the research goals.

He is a past Chair of the American Statistical Association Council of Sections Governing Board. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and he is an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.

See also Santner's web-page.


Christopher Wikle (wiklec@missouri.edu)
Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO.
Christopher Christopher K. Wikle obtained BS and MS degrees in Atmospheric Science from the University of Kansas in 1986 and 1989, respectively. From 1988 to 1991, he worked as an air-pollution consultant, primarily studying potential environmental impacts of proposed power-generation facilities. He then obtained an MS in Statistics at Iowa State University in 1994 and a co-major PhD in both Atmospheric Science and Statistics at Iowa State University in 1996. From 1996 to 1998 he was a visiting scientist in the Geophysical Statistics Project at the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, Colorado. He is currently Professor of Statistics at the University of Missouri, Columbia.

He is coauthor of the book, "Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data," with Noel Cressie, 2011 (Wiley). His research interests are in spatio-temporal models, hierarchical Bayesian methods, the introduction of physical information into stochastic models, statistical design of environmental monitoring networks, climate dynamics, turbulence, atmospheric waves, and the application of statistics to geophysical and environmental processes.

Dr. Wikle is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.

See also Wikle's web-page.