Resume of Edward Wegman

(Prepared September 2007)

 

 

 

OFFICE:           Department of Computational and Data Sciences

                        George Mason University, MS 6A2

                        Research Building 1

                        Fairfax, VA 22030

                        Ph: (703) 945-9648

                        email: ewegman@gmu.edu

                        website: http://www.galaxy.gmu.edu

            personal website:

               http://www.galaxy.gmu.edu/~ewegman

 

 

EDUCATION:

 

 

SOCIETY MEMBERSHIPS

 

American Statistical Association (Fellow)

Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Fellow)

Royal Statistical Society (Fellow)

American Association for the Advancement of Science (Fellow)

Washington Academy of Science (Fellow)

International Statistical Institute (Elected Member)

Research Society on Alcoholism (Elected Member)

Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers (Senior Member)

Mathematical Association of America

Society of Industrial and Applied Mathematics

American Mathematical Society

American Geophysical Union

Sigma Xi Research Society

Interface

 

CONTRACTS

 

Research Associate with Professor George Nicholson on both AFOSR and NSF Grants, 1969, 1970

Research Associate with Professor R. C. Bose on NSF Grant GP-23520, 1971, 1972

Research Associate with Professors W. L. Smith and M. R. Leadbetter on ONR contract, 1973, 1974

Principal Investigator on AFOSR contract, 1975-1977, 1987-1989, 2001-2005

Senior Faculty Fellow Award from NSF, 1976

Principal Investigator on ARO contract, 1987-2006

Principal Investigator on NSF grant, 1987-1993, 1996-2001

Principal Investigator on a Virginia CIT contract, 1987-1990

Principal Investigator on an IBM equipment grant, 1987

Principal Investigator on an Apple Computer, Inc. equipment grant, 1987

Principal Investigator on DoD Instrumentation grant, 1988, 1989, 1992, 1993

Principal Investigator on ONR contract, 1989-1995, 1999-2002

Principal Investigator on NSF SCREMS grant, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1999

Principal Investigator on NIH/NIAAA grant, 2006-2009

Co-Investigator on DARPA contract, 1999-2005

Navy-ASEE Distinguished Faculty Fellow Award from ONR, 1996, 1997

NSF/ASA/BLS Senior Faculty Fellow, 2000

 

AWARDS AND HONORS

 

Elected Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, 1977

Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, 1979

Elected Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics, 1981

Elected Senior Member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, 1979

Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, 1983

Selected by the Washington Academy of Science as the 1983 Outstanding Mathematician

 in the Washington, DC area and elected Honorary Fellow, 1983

Elected Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 1985

Awarded the U. S. Navy Meritorious Civilian Service Medal, 1981

Awarded the U. S. Navy Merit Pay Performance Award, 1981

Awarded the U. S. Navy Merit Pay Performance Award, 1982

Awarded the U. S. Navy Special Achievement Award, 1983

Promoted to the U. S. Senior Executive Service, 1983

Awarded the U. S. Navy Senior Executive Bonus Award, 1984

Selected as the first Bernard J. Dunn Professor of Information Technology and Applied Statistics, George Mason University, 1986

Elected President-elect of the Washington Statistical Society, 1989, President, 1990

Elected Vice-president of the Intel Supercomputer User’s Group, 1990

Awarded the George Mason University Distinguished Faculty Award, 1990

Elected Chairman of the Board, Interface, 1997-2000

Elected President-elect, International Association for Statistical Computing, 1995-1997, President, 1997-1999, Past President, 1999-2001

Awarded the GMU-IT&E Outstanding Research Award for 1999 (First Recipient)

Elected Chair, Statistical Graphics Section of the American Statistical Association, 2000

Awarded the Army Wilks Medal for Distinguished Research Contributions, 1999

Awarded the American Statistical Association 2002 Founder’s Award, 2002

Awarded the University of Iowa Distinguished Alumni Achievement Award, 2004

Appointed Chair of the Committee on Applied and Theoretical Statistics, National Academy of

Science, 2004

Appointed Member (Ex Officio) of the Board of Mathematical Sciences and their Applications, National Academy of Sciences, 2004

Chair of Section U of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2005

Elected Council of Sections Representative of the Statistical Graphics Section of ASA, 2005

Selected as National Affiliate, National Academy of Science, 2005

Elected to the Board of Directors, American Statistical Association, 2006

Elected Program Chair-elect, Statistical Computing Section, ASA, 2006

 

 

EMPLOYMENT

 

 

RESEARCH INTERESTS

 

 

PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

CONSULTING ACTIVITIES

 

 

MEETINGS OR SESSIONS ORGANIZED

 

 

EDITORIAL

 

 

COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS

 

 

INVITED PAPERS

 

1.             “Nonparametric probability density estimation,” IMS Central Regional Meetings, Dallas, TX, April, 1970

2.             “Some thoughts on computers and undergraduate statistics,” Second International Congress on Mathematical Education, Exeter, England, August, 1972

3.             “Some results on automata in random environments,” International Symposium on Information Theory, Patras, Greece, August, 1976

4.             “An automaton modeled in an environment,” First International Conference on Mathematical Modeling, St. Louis, MO, August, 1977

5.             “Splines and related functional estimators,” Washington Statistical Society, Washington, DC, November, 1978

6.             “Time series, sonars and space probes,” Washington Statistical Society, Washington, DC, June, 1979

7.             “Time series and remote sensing,” Processes in Marine Remote Sensing Workshop, Manchester, England, June, 1979

8.             “Isotonic splines,” IMS Special Topics Meeting on Splines and Approximations, Boulder, CO, October, 1979

9.             “Two approaches to nonparametric regression: splines and isotonic inference,” International Conference on Statistics in Japan, Tokyo, Japan, November, 1979

10.         “On computer architectures for statistical algorithms,” Conference on Applications of Numerical Analysis and Special Functions in Statistics, College Park, MD, October, 1980

11.         “Training statisticians for employment in industry and government, invited discussion,” Conference on the Teaching of Statistics and Statistical Consulting, Columbus, OH, November, 1980

12.         “Isotonic and related splines,” Miniconference on Isotonic Regression, Iowa City, IA, April, 1981

13.         “Data Fusion,” Third International Conference on Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics, West Lafayette, IN, June, 1981

14.         “Maximum likelihood density estimation,” Miniconference on Nonparametric Statistics, Lexington, KY, March, 1982

15.         “Data fusion,” Virginia Academy of Science Annual Meeting, Blacksburg, VA, April, 1982

16.         “Spline estimation of spectral densities,” Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Cincinnati, OH, August, 1982

17.         Invited Discussant at the ASA/Southern Regional Education Board Meeting, Arkadelphia, AR, June, 1984

18.         “Higher dimensional data analysis,” Keynote Talk, Symposium on Adaptive Inference in Honor of Robert V. Hogg’s 60th Birthday, Iowa City, IA, October, 1984

19.         Invited Discussant, ORSA Special Interest Conference on Statistical and Computational Problems in Probability Modeling, Williamsburg, VA, January, 1985

20.         “Parallel coordinate representation of multivariate data,” Washington Statistical Society, Washington, DC, March, 1985

21.         “Ultra high speed computing,” Software Valley, West Virginia, a Conference sponsored by (then) Senate Minority Leader Robert Byrd, Morgantown, WV, July, 1985

22.         “Hyperdimensional data analysis using parallel coordinates,” Washington Operations Research and Management Science Council, Washington, DC, January, 1986

23.         “Representing multivariate meteorological data using parallel coordinates,” Tenth AMS Conference on Weather Modification, Arlington, VA, May, 1986

24.         “Hyperdimensional data analysis using parallel coordinates,” Fourth International Conference on Statistical Decision Theory and Related Topics, West Lafayette, IN, June, 1986

25.         “Hyperdimensional data analysis using parallel coordinates,” AMS-IMS-SIAM 1986 Joint Research Conference on Large Scale Data Analysis via Computer Graphics, Santa Cruz, CA, July, 1986

26.         “On randomness, determinism and computability,” Conference on Assessing Uncertainty, Monterey, CA, November, 1986

27.         “On randomness, determinism and computability,” Washington Statistical Society, Washington, DC, January, 1987

28.         “A Parallel coordinate approach to statistical graphics,” NCGA Annual Conference and Exposition, Philadelphia, PA, March, 1987

29.         “Computational statistics versus statistical computing,” ARO-GMU Workshop on Computational Statistics, Fairfax, VA, June, 1987

30.         “Impact of technology on statistics,” Washington Statistical Society ASA Sesquicentennial Seminar, Washington, DC, September, 1988

31.         “Parallel coordinate density plots,” National Academy of Sciences/Board of Mathematical Sciences Chairman’s Meeting, Washington, DC, October, 1988

32.         “Parallel coordinate density plots,” Army Design of Experiments Conference, Las Cruces, NM, October, 1988

33.         “Parallel coordinate density plots,” Computing Science and Statistics: 21st Symposium on the Interface, Orlando, FL, April, 1989

34.         “Parallelizing multiple linear regression,” Computing Science and Statistics: 21st Symposium on the Interface, Orlando, FL, April, 1989

35.         “Parallel computing and statistics,” (special sesquicentennial invited lecture) ASA Sesquicentennial Meeting, Washington, DC, August, 1989

36.         “The grand tour in k-dimensions,” Computing Science and Statistics: 22nd Symposium on the Interface, East Lansing, MI, May, 1990

37.         “Visualization of high dimensional-structure using ridges,” ASA Annual Meeting, Atlanta, GA, August, 1991

38.         “Parallel computing in statistics” ISI Biennial Meeting, Cairo, Egypt, September, 1991

39.         “Visualization of high dimensional structure using ridges,” Keynote Talk at ASA Milwaukee Chapter Special Meeting on Statistical Graphics, Milwaukee, WI, September, 1991

40.         “Visualization of high dimensional structure using ridges,” Washington Statistical Society, Washington, DC, September, 1991

41.         “The straight scoop on wavelets,” Army Design of Experiments Conference, Vicksburg, MS, October, 1991

42.         “Moments and wavelets in signal estimation,” Conference on Moments and Signal Processing, Monterey, CA, September, 1992

43.         “Three-dimensional Andrews plots and the grand tour,” Computing Science and Statistics, 25th Symposium on the Interface, San Diego, CA, May, 1993

44.         “History of the Interface since 1987: The corporate era,” Computing Science and Statistics, 25th Symposium on the Interface, San Diego, CA, May, 1993

45.         “Immersive methods for mine warfare,” MASEVR ‘95: Second International Conference on the Military Applications of Synthetic Environments and Virtual Reality, Stockholm, Sweden, December, 1995

46.         “High dimensional clustering using parallel coordinates and the grand tour,” Conference of the German Classification Society, Freiburg, Germany, April, 1996

47.         “Statistical software, siftware, and astronomy,” Statistical Challenges in Modern Astronomy II, University Park, PA, June, 1996

48.         “Geometric modeling of vehicle paths and confidence regions,” Computing Science and Statistics, 28th Symposium on the Interface, Sydney, Australia, July, 1996

49.         “High dimensional clustering using parallel coordinates and the grand tour,” Computing Science and Statistics, 28th Symposium on the Interface, Sydney, Australia, July, 1996

50.         “The impact of information technology on statistics,” Information Technology Forum, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, September, 1996

51.         “Data mining and computational complexity,” Massive Datasets Workshop, San Diego Supercomputer Center, San Diego, CA, March, 1997

52.         “Visualization and pattern recognition in high dimensional spaces,” DARPA ISO/ITO Workshop on ATR, Arlington, VA, April, 1997

53.         “Visualizing and understanding data in high dimensions,” The 1997 Chhotry Lal and Mohra Devi Rustagi Memorial Lecture, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH May, 1997

54.         “Immersive methods for exploratory analysis,” Computing Science and Statistics, 29th Symposium on the Interface, Houston, TX, May, 1997

55.         “Short course: Scientific visualization and virtual reality,” taught with Daniel B. Carr, 4th Army Conference on Applied Statistics, Fairfax, VA, October 20-21, 1997

56.         “Data mining: How hard is it to find the gems,” IMS Meeting, Pittsburgh, PA, March, 1998

57.         “Virtual manipulatives on the internet: Mathematics education for all using dynamic visualization,” National Council of Teachers of Mathematics, Washington, DC, April, 1998

58.         “Data graphics for tactical decision making,” Army After Next Tactical Decision Aids Technology Symposium, El Paso, TX, April, 1998

59.         “Image grand tour,” Automatic Target Recognition VIII, SPIE, Orlando, FL, April, 1998

60.         “A penalty function method for simplifying adaptive mixtures estimates,” Interface ‘98, Minneapolis, MN, May, 1998

61.         “Statistical graphics in C3: Tactical decision aids,” ONR Workshop on Statistics and Probability in C3, Arlington, VA, June, 1998

62.         “MiniCAVE,” AT&T Workshop on Data Visualization in Statistics, Morris, NJ, July, 1998

63.         “Mining the sands of time,” Joint Statistical Meetings/ASA Annual Conference, Dallas, TX, August, 1998

64.         “Data visualization with parallel coordinates and the grand tour,” 4th Iranian International Statistics Conference, Tehran, Iran, August, 1998

65.         “Visions: New Techniques and Technologies in Statistics” Keynote Talk at NTTS ‘98, The International Seminar on New Techniques and Technologies in Statistics, Sorrento, Italy, November, 1998

66.         “Geometric Methods in Statistics,” Five lecture series at the University of Naples, Naples, Italy, November, 1998

67.         Distinguished lecture series: Two lectures on data mining and visualization, Utah State University, Logan, UT, April, 1999

68.         “Roundtable: New Graphics Environments,” Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, August, 1999

69.         “Statistical Education at the Interface: Distance Learning/Computers in the Classroom,” joint with J. Solka, Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, August, 1999

70.         “Data Mining and Visualization,” International Statistical Institute, Helsinki, Finland, August, 1999

71.         “Visual Data Mining,” Keynote Talk at ACAS 99, The Army Conference on Applied Statistics, West Point, NY, October, 1999

72.         “Assessing Vulnerability Measurements,” INFORMS, Philadelphia, PA, November, 1999

73.         Two Lectures, Troisieme Cycle de la Suisse Romande, Ecole Polytechnique Federale de Lausanne, Switzerland, December, 1999

74.         “Visual Data Mining,” Conference in Honor of the 80th Birthday of Professor C. R. Rao, Austin, TX, March, 2000

75.         “Statistical Data Mining,” Two-day Short Course Organized by the Washington Statistical Society, Washington, DC, April, 2000

76.         “Data Reduction by Quantization,” 5th World Congress of the Bernoulli Society and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Guanajuato, Mexico, May, 2000

77.         “The MiniCAVE and Crystal Vision DataMining Software,” Invited Technical Demonstration, Joint Statistical Meetings, Indianapolis, IN, August, 2000

78.         “CrystalVision: A New Visual DataMining Software,” Joint Statistical Meetings, Indianapolis, IN, August, 2000

79.         “Visual Data Mining,” Joint Statistical Meetings, Indianapolis, IN, August, 2000

80.         “Multivariate Density Estimation: Adaptive Mixtures” and “Multivariate Density Estimation: Geometric Approaches,” Workshop on Nonparametric Model Building, Splines and other Smoothing Techniques, State College, PA, October, 2000

81.         “Visual Data Mining,” Graduiertenkolleg “Angewandte Statistik,” Herbstkolloquium, Dortmund, Germany, November, 2000

82.         “Crystal Vision: A New Visual DataMining Software,” Conference on Data Mining and Statistics, Augsburg, Germany, November, 2000

83.         “Data Reduction by Quantization,” Nonparametrics in Large, Multidimensional Data Mining Conference, Dallas, TX, January, 2001

84.         “Visual Data Mining,” 8th Biennial CDC/ATSDR Statistics Symposium, Atlanta, GA, January, 2001

85.         Short Course on Statistical Data Mining, ENAR Meeting, Charlotte, NC, March, 2001

86.         Five Lectures on Geometry, Visualization and Data Mining, University of Aalborg, Denmark, May, 2001

87.         “Visual Data Mining,” Keynote Talk, Danish Society of Theoretical Statistics, Aalborg, Denmark, May, 2001

88.         “Visualizing Cereal World,” DataViz II Workshop, Fairfax, VA, May, 2001

89.         Short Course on Statistical Data Mining, Interface ‘01, Orange County, CA, June 2001

90.         “Data Reduction by Quantization,” Joint Statistical Meetings, Atlanta, GA, August, 2001

91.         “Pixel Tours,” IMA Workshop on Geophysics and Statistics, Minneapolis, MN, November, 2001

92.         “Pixel Tours,” American Geophysical Union Meeting, San Francisco, CA, December, 2001

93.         “Collaborative Visualization Environments,” (Best of JCGS Session), Interface 2002, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, April 2002

94.         Six Lectures on Data Mining, Finnish Summer School in Probability, Lahti, Finland, June 2002

95.         “Visual Data Mining,” Keynote Talk, C. Warren Neel Conference on Statistical Data Mining & Knowledge Discovery, Knoxville, TN, June, 2002

96.         “Smoothings, Ridges, and Bumps,” Joint Statistical Meetings, New York, NY, August, 2002

97.         “On Some Generalizations of Parallel Coordinate Plots,” Seeing a Million – A Data Visualization Workshop, Rain am Lech (nr. Munich), Germany, October, 2002

98.         “Visual Data Mining,” Keynote Talk, M2002 SAS Data Mining Conference, Cary, NC, October 2002

99.         Short Course on Statistical Data Mining, Army Conference on Applied Statistics, Raleigh, NC, October, 2002

100.      “Visualization of Internet Packet Headers,” NAS/NRC Workshop on Massive Streaming Data, Washington, DC, December, 2002

101.      “Preparing Electronic Books,” Interface 2003, Salt Lake City, UT, March 2003

102.      “Evolutionary Graphics and Recursive Algorithms for Streaming Data,” Keynote Talk, Conference on Applied Statistics in Ireland, Mullingar, Ireland, May, 2003

103.      “Visualization of Internet Packet Headers for Intrusion Detection,” Conference on Statistical Issues in Counterterrorism, Washington, DC, May, 2003

104.      “Evolutionary Graphics for Streaming Data,” JSM 2003, San Francisco, CA, August 2003

105.      “Evolutionary Graphics and Recursive Algorithms for Streaming Data,” Workshop on Statistical and Machine Learning Techniques for Computer Intrusion Detection, Fairfax, VA, September, 2003

106.      “Visualization in Statistics,” Keynote Talk, Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry & Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, May, 2004

107.      “Visual Analytics for Streaming Internet Traffic,” Interface 2004, Baltimore, MD, May 2004

108.      “Computational and Mathematical Tools for Alcohol Ecology,” Research Society on Alcoholism, Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 2004

109.      “Recursive Bipartite Spectral Clustering for Document Categorization,” Army Conference on Applied Statistics, Atlanta, GA, October, 2004

110.      “Visual Data Mining of Streaming Data,” Federal Committee on Statistical Methodology (FCSM Statistical Policy Seminar: Achieving Statistical Quality in a Diverse and Changing Environment, Bethesda, MD, December, 2004

111.      “Cybersecurity on the Internet: Where the Homeland is the World,” Public Lecture, International Conference on the Future of Statistical Theory, Practice and Education, Hyderabad, India, December 2004-January 2005

112.      “Ecology of Alcohol and Alcoholism,” International Conference on the Future of Statistical Theory, Practice and Education, Hyderabad, India, December 2004-January 2005

113.      “The Development and Implications of Computational Statistics for Social Science, Health and Other Applications,” Keynote Talk, Milestones in 21st Century Science, Buffalo, NY, March, 2005

114.      “Strategies for Visual Data Mining,” Keynote Talk, SIAM Data Mining Conference 2005, Orange County, California, April, 2005

115.      “40 Years of Statistics Research: A Personal Perspective,” 40 years of Statistical Computing and Beyond, Murray Hill, NJ, April, 2005

116.      “Strategies for Visual Data Mining,” Symposium on the Interface, St. Louis, MO, June, 2005

117.      “Ecology of Alcohol and Alcoholism,” with Y. Said, Symposium on the Interface, St. Louis, MO, June, 2005

118.      “Modeling Alcohol Abuse and its Consequences,” with Y. Said (presented by Y. Said, Symposium on the Interface, St. Louis, MO, June, 2005

119.      “Visual Data Mining,” Introductory Overview Lecture, Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, MN, August, 2005

120.      “Automated Metadata,” SAMSI Workshop on Homeland Defense and National Security, Research Triangle Park, NC, September, 2005

121.      “Automated Metadata,“ Army Conference on Applied Statistics, Monterey, CA, October, 2005

122.