Dipak Dey
Council Member
Dipak K. Dey, is a Board of Trustees
Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the
University of Connecticut. He received his
Ph.D. in Statistics from Purdue University in
1980. He is an elected fellow of the American
Association for the Advancement of Science,
American Statistical Association, Institute
of Mathematical Statistics, International
Society of Bayesian Analysis, Connecticut
Academy of Arts and Sciences and an elected
member of the International Statistical
Institute. Some of the awards and honors Dey
has received include the Outstanding Alumni
award from the Department of Statistics,
Purdue University, first Marth award for
mentorship from the University of
Connecticut, the Research Excellence Award
from the University of Connecticut Alumni
Association, and the Research Excellence
Award from the American Association of the
University Professor, University of
Connecticut. He was Head of the Department of
Statistics for 3 terms and was Associate
Dean, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
for one term. He has published ten
books/edited volumes and over 260 refereed
journal articles and book chapters in various
statistical and interdisciplinary
journals. His research area includes,
statistical methodology and applications
involving categorical and longitudinal data,
classification and clustering,
spatio-temporal and survival data
analysis. Areas of his research applications
include Biometry, Bioinformatics, Data
mining, Environmetrics, Econometrics, Image
processing, Morphometry and Population
Genetics. He has supervised 38 Ph.D. students
and has presented more than 200 talks at
Professional meetings and various
departments. He has been a visiting professor
at Macquire University, Sydney, Australia,
Pontificia Universidad de Catolica, Santiago,
Chile, University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo,
Brazil, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, Canada, Indian Statistical
Institute, Calcutta and Delhi, India, the
National Institutes of Standards and
Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, Statistical and
Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute,
Research Triangle Park, NC. and Social
Science Data Analytic Center, Virginia Tech,
Arlington, VA.
