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Twenty-Third Pfizer Colloquium: Other Distinguished Participants |
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Professor Malay Ghosh Dr. George W. Williams |
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Professor Malay
Ghosh is
a Distinguished Professor in the Department
of Statistics, University
of Florida, Gainesville, Florida. He received his B.A. degree
in Statistics (Honors) in 1962 and the M.A. degree in Statistics in
1964, both from the Calcutta University, Calcutta. He was the Gold
Medalist in both. He received his Ph.D.
degree in Statistics in 1969 from the University of North Carolina,
Chapel Hill under the guidance of Professor P. K. Sen as the major
adviser. In 1969, Professor Sen had his first two Ph.D. students
graduate and Professor Ghosh was one of them. Professor Ghosh has
received many honors including Elected Fellow of the American
Statistical Association, Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical
Statistics, and Elected Member of the International Statistical
Institute. He has years of experience in editing and co-editing many
leading international journals including Sequential Analysis, Sankhya,
and Statistics & Decisions. More than 35 Ph.D. students have
graduated with Professor Ghosh as a major adviser. He has been a
super-mentor to all his students. Professor Ghosh is a
prolific researcher and has made numerous fundamental contributions
including many in areas such as large-sample theory, sufficiency and
completeness, inference, conditional inference, nonparametrics,
sequential analysis, small area estimation, Bayesian modeling and
inference. For more details, please
feel free to visit the following website: http://www.stat.ufl.edu/personnel/usrpages/ghosh.shtml |
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Dr. George W. Williams is Vice President,
Global Biomedical Data Sciences and Head, Center for Observational
Research at Amgen. He joined Amgen in August, 2002.
Previously, Dr. Williams was Vice President, Biostatistics and
Programming, Bristol-Myers Squibb Company. He joined BMS in December,
2001 having retired from the position of Senior Vice President,
Biostatistics and Research Data Systems, Merck Research Laboratories. He
was at Merck from 1991 to 2001. From 1980 to 1991, He was the founding
Chairman of the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology at the
Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and from 1972 to 1980 he was on the faculty
of the Department of Biostatistics, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor.
Dr. Williams obtained his Ph.D. in Biostatistics from the University of
North Carolina, Chapel Hill in 1972 with Professor Sen as his major
adviser, his Masters in statistics at George Washington University, and
his bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Bucknell University. |