Professor Kalbfleisch will
be conducting a graduate course on Survival
Analysis (ST5212) during his 5-month stay with the
department.
About
John David Kalbfleisch
Prof Kalbfleisch is a Professor
of Biostatistics and Statistics at the University of Michigan
in Ann Arbor. He received his PhD in statistics in 1969
from the University of Waterloo. He was Assistant Professor
in the Department of Statistics at the State University
of New York at Buffalo (1970-73) and on faculty at the University
of Waterloo (1973-2002). At Waterloo, he served as Chair
of the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science
(1984-1990) and as Dean of the Faculty of Mathematics (1990-1998).
He joined the University of Michigan in 2002 and served
as Chair of Biostatistics there until this year.
Prof Kalbfleisch has worked and published in various areas
of statistics and biostatistics including survival and life
history analysis, likelihood methods of inference, bootstrapping
and estimating equations, mixture models and medical applications.
He is a Fellow of the Royal
Society of Canada, a Gold Medalist of the Statistical Society
of Canada and was awarded the Fisher lectureship in 1999.
He is also a Fellow of the American Statistical Association
and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.
From left: Prof Anthony Kuk, Assoc Prof Saw Seang Mei, Mrs
Catherine Sharon Kalbfleisch, Prof John Kalbfleisch, Prof
Saw Swee Hock, Dean Tan Eng Chye, Prof Louis Chen, Assoc
Prof Choi Kwok Pui
About Saw Swee Hock
Professorship
Established in 2003 by former
NUS professor and recipient of the inaugural NUS Distinguished
Alumni Service Award, Dr. Saw Swee
Hock, the professorship aims to attract renowned statisticians
to the department.
Under this scheme, it is
hoped that the department can bring in one distinguished
visiting professor for one semester every academic year.
Through interacting with the faculty members and graduate
students during semester long visits, the visiting professors
can help enhance the research environment and raise the
profile of the department.
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holders of the Saw Swee Hock Professorship
of Statistics
