Applications: Astrophysics, educational technology,
elections, geophysics, hearing, litigation, marketing, public policy, risk
assessment and control, uncertainty quantification in complex problems
Appointments
7/2011–6/2012 Vice Chair, Department of Statistics, University of
California, Berkeley
7/2011–8/2011 Acting Chair, Department of Statistics, University of
California, Berkeley
7/2008–present Faculty, Designated Emphasis in Computational
Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
7/1998–present Professor, Department of Statistics, University of
California, Berkeley
7/2001–6/2003 Faculty Assistant in Educational Technology (to
Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education), University of California,
Berkeley
6/1996 Visiting Associate Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences,
Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
7/1994–6/1998 Associate Professor, Department of Statistics,
University of California, Berkeley
7/1988–6/1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics,
University of California, Berkeley
7/1987–6/1990 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in
Mathematical Sciences
1/1987–6/1987 Postgraduate Research, Department of Statistics,
University of California, Berkeley
8/1986–12/1986 Postgraduate Research, Institute for Geophysics
and Planetary Physics, UC San Diego
Awards and Fellowships
Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, Research in the Public Interest,
University of California, Berkeley (2011)
John Gideon Award for Election Integrity, Election Verification
Network (2011)
Mellon Library/Faculty Fellow for Undergraduate Research
(2006–2007)
Presidential Chair Fellow, University of California, Berkeley
(2003–2004)
Fellow, Institute of Physics (elected 1999)
Miller Research Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science
(1999)
Dobson Fellow, University of California at Berkeley (1998, 1999)
Presidential Young Investigator (1989–1995)
National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical
Sciences (1987–1989)
University Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin (1982–1983)
Societies and Affiliations
Member and Accredited Professional Statistician, American Statistical
Association
Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
Center for Data Analysis Technology and Applications (DATA)
Center for Astrostatistics (Penn State)
Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG)
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Fellow and Chartered Physicist, Institute of Physics
International Statistical Institute
National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure
(NPACI)
Royal Astronomical Society
Society for Empirical Legal Studies
Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Solar Oscillations Investigation
(SOHO-SOI)
Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
Theoretical Astrophysics Center, University of California, Berkeley
Education
A.B. 1980, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Ph.D. 1986, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California
Mentors
Robert L. Parker, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San
Diego (PhD dissertation advisor)
George E. Backus, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics,
Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San
Diego (postdoctoral advisor)
David L. Donoho, Department of Statistics, Stanford University
(postdoctoral advisor)
Publications
Refereed Publications
Stark, P.B. and C. Frohlich, 1985. The depths of the deepest deep
Earthquakes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 90, 1859–1869.
Stark, P.B., R.L. Parker, G. Masters, and J.A. Orcutt, 1986. Strict
bounds on seismic velocity in the spherical Earth, Journal ofGeophysical Research, 91, 13,892–13,902.
Stark, P.B., 1986. Travel-Time Inversion: Regularization and Inference,
Ph.D. Thesis, Scripps Instution of Oceanography, University of
California, San Diego, 106pp.
Stark, P.B., and R.L. Parker, 1987. Smooth profiles from tau (p) and
X(p) data, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 89,
2713–2719.
Stark, P.B., and R.L. Parker, 1987. Velocity bounds from statistical
estimates of tau(p) and X(p), Journal of Geophysical Research, 92,
2713–2719.
Stark, P.B., 1987. Rigorous velocity bounds from soft tau (p) and
X(p) data, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 89,
987–996.
Orcutt, J.A., R.L. Parker, P.B. Stark, and J.D. Garmany, 1988.
Comment concerning “A method of obtaining a velocity-depth envelope
from wide-angle seismic data” by R. Mithal and J.B. Diebold.
Geophysical Journal, 95, 209–212.
Stark, P.B. and R.L. Parker, 1988. Correction to “Velocity bounds
from statistical estimates of tau(p) and X(p).” Journal of GeophysicalResearch, 93, 13,821–13,822.
Donoho, D.L. and P.B. Stark, 1989. Uncertainty principles and signal
recovery. SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 49, 906–931.
Stark, P.B., 1992. Affine minimax confidence intervals for a bounded
Normal mean, Statistics and Probability Letters, 13, 39–44.
Donoho, D.L. and P.B. Stark, 1993. A note on rearrangements, spectral
concentration, and the zero-order prolate spheroidal wavefunction.
IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 39, 257–260.
Pulliam, R.J. and P.B. Stark, 1993. Bumps on the core-mantle
boundary: Are they facts or artifacts?, Journal of Geophysical Research,
98, 1943–1956.
Stark, P.B. and N.W. Hengartner, 1993. Reproducing Earth’s kernel:
Uncertainty of the shape of the core-mantle boundary from PKP and
PcP travel-times, Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 1957–1972.
Stark, P.B., 1993. Uncertainty of the COBE quadrupole detection,
Astrophysical Journal Letters, 408, L73–L76.
Stark, P.B. and D.I. Nikolayev, 1993. Toward tubular tomography,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 8095–8106.
Constable, C.G., R.L. Parker, and P.B. Stark, 1993. Geomagnetic
field models incorporating frozen-flux constraints, Geophysical JournalInternational, 113, 419–433.
Gough, D.O. and P.B. Stark, 1993. Are the 1986–1988 changes in solar
free-oscillation frequency splitting significant?, Astrophysical Journal,
415, 376–382.
Stark, P.B., M.M. Herron, and A. Matteson, 1993. Empirically
minimax affine mineralogy estimates from Fourier-transform infrared
spectroscopy data using a decimated wavelet basis, AppliedSpectroscopy, 47, 1820–1829.
Pulliam, R.J. and P.B. Stark, 1994. Confidence regions for mantle
heterogeneity, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 6931–6943.
Genovese, C.R., P.B. Stark, and M.J. Thompson, 1995. Uncertainties
for Two-Dimensional Models of Solar Rotation from Helioseismic
Eigenfrequency Splitting, Astrophysical Journal, 443, 843–854.
Stark, P.B. and R.L. Parker, 1995. Bounded-variable least-squares:
an algorithm and applications, Computational Statistics, 10, 129–141.
Preprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/Preprints/bvls.pdf
Hengartner, N.W. and P.B. Stark, 1995. Finite-sample confidence
envelopes for shape-restricted densities, The Annals of Statistics, 23,
525–550.
Stark, P.B., 1995. Reply to Comment by Morelli and Dziewonski,
Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 15,399–15,402.
Gough, D.O., T. Sekii, and P.B. Stark, 1996. Inferring spatial variation
of solar properties from helioseismic data, Astrophysical Journal, 459,
779–791.
Benjamini, Y. and Stark, P.B., 1996. Non-equivariant simultaneous
confidence intervals less likely to contain zero, Journal of the AmericanStatistical Association, 91, 329–337.
Hill, F., P.B. Stark, R.T. Stebbins, E.R. Anderson, H.M. Antia,
T.M. Brown, T.L. Duvall, Jr., D.A. Haber, J.W. Harvey,
D.H. Hathaway, R. Howe, R. Hubbard, H.P. Jones, J.R. Kennedy,
S.G. Korzennik, A.G. Kosovichev, J.W. Leibacher, K.G. Libbrecht,
J.A. Pintar, E.J. Rhodes, Jr.,
J. Schou, M.J. Thompson, S. Tomczyk, C.G. Toner, R. Toussaint,
and W.E. Williams, 1996. The solar acoustic spectrum and eigenmode
parameters, Science, 272, 1292–1295.
Thompson,
M.J., J. Toomre, E.R. Anderson, H.M. Antia, G. Berthomieu,
D. Burtonclay, S.M. Chitre, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, T. Corbard,
M. DeRosa, C.R. Genovese, D.O. Gough, D.A. Haber, J.W. Harvey,
F. Hill, R. Howe, S.G. Korzennik, A.G. Kosovichev, J.W. Leibacher,
F.P. Pijpers, J. Provost, E.J. Rhodes, Jr., J. Schou, T. Sekii,
P.B. Stark, and P.R. Wilson, 1996. Differential rotation and dynamics
of the solar interior, Science, 272, 1300–1305.
Stark, P.B., 1996. A few considerations for ascribing statistical
significance to earthquake predictions, Geophysical Research Letters,
23, 1399–1402.
Evans, S.N., and P.B. Stark, 1996. Shrinkage estimators, Skorokhod’s
problem, and stochastic integration by parts, The Annals of Statistics,
24, 809–815.
Genovese, C.R. and P.B. Stark, 1996. Data Reduction and Statistical
Consistency in Linear Inverse Problems, Physics of the Earth andPlanetary Interiors, 98, 143–162.
Benjamini, Y., Y. Hochberg, and P.B. Stark, 1998. Confidence
Intervals with more Power to determine the Sign: Two Ends constrain
the Means, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93,
309–317.
Tenorio, L., P.B. Stark, and C.H. Lineweaver, 1999. Bigger
uncertainties and the Big Bang, Inverse Problems, 15, 329–341.
Komm, R., Y. Gu, P.B. Stark, and I. Fodor, 1999. Multitaper
Spectral Analysis and Wavelet Denoising Applied to Helioseismic Data,
Astrophysical Journal, 519, 407–421.
Freedman, D.A., and P.B. Stark, 1999. The swine flu vaccine and
Guillain-Barré syndrome: a case study in relative risk and specific
causation, Evaluation Review, 23, 619–647. Preprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ census/546.pdf
Fodor, I. and P.B. Stark, 2000. Multitaper Spectrum Estimation for
Time Series with Gaps, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 48,
3472–3483.
Freedman, D.A., P.B. Stark, and K.W. Wachter, 2001. A probability
model for census adjustment, Mathematical Population Studies, 9,
165–180.
Stark, P.B. and D.A. Freedman, 2003. What is the Chance of an
Earthquake? in Earthquake Science and Seismic Risk Reduction,
F. Mulargia and R.J. Geller, eds., NATO Science Series IV: Earth and
Environmental Sciences, v. 32, Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands,
201–213. Invited. Preprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/611.pdf
Schafer, C.M. and P.B. Stark, 2004. Using what we know:
inference with physical constraints. Proceedings of the Conferenceon Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics andCosmology PHYSTAT2003, L. Lyons, R. Mount and R. Reitmeyer,
eds., Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA, 25–34.
Evans, S.N., B. Hansen, and P.B. Stark, 2005. Minimax Expected
Measure Confidence Sets for Restricted Location Parameters,
Bernoulli, 11, 571–590. Also Tech. Rept. 617, Dept. Statistics Univ.
Calif Berkeley (May 2002, revised May 2003). Preprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/617.pdf
Divenyi, P., P.B. Stark, and K. Haupt, 2005. Decline of Speech
Understanding and Auditory Thresholds in the Elderly, Journal of theAcoustical Society of America, 118, 1089–1100.
Freedman, D.A. and P.B. Stark, 2007. Ecological Inference, in 1Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives,
447–448, David S. Clark, ed., Sage Publications. Invited. Preprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/ecoInf07.txt
Luen, B. and P.B. Stark, 2008. Testing Earthquake Predictions. IMSLecture Notes—Monograph Series. Probability and Statistics: Essaysin Honor of David A. Freedman, 302–315. Institute for Mathematical
Statistics Press, Beachwood, OH. Invited. Reprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3032
Stark, P.B., 2008. A Sharper Discrepancy Measure for Post-Election
Audits, The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2, 2008, 982–985. Reprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1697
Berlow, E.L., J.A. Dunne, N.D. Martinez, P.B. Stark, R.J. Williams
and U. Brose, 2009. Simplicity on the other side of ecological
complexity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106,
187–219. Reprint: http://www.pnas.org/content/106/1/187.full.pdf+html
Hall, J.L., L.W. Miratrix, P.B. Stark, M. Briones, E. Ginnold,
F. Oakley, M. Peaden, G. Pellerin, T. Stanionis and T. Webber,
2009. Implementing Risk-Limiting Audits in California, 2009 ElectronicVoting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections(EVT/WOTE ’09). Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.4691, http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1411219.
SSRN’s Top Ten download list for ERN: Models of Political Processes:
Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legislatures, & Voting Behavior
Stark, P.B., 2009. CAST: Canvass Audits by Sampling and Testing.
IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security: SpecialIssue on Electronic Voting, 4, 708–717. Reprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/cast09.pdf
Miratrix, L.W. and P.B. Stark, 2009. Election Audits using a
Trinomial Bound. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics andSecurity: Special Issue on Electronic Voting, 4, 974–981. Reprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/trinomial09.pdf
Stark, P.B., 2009. Risk-limiting post-election audits: P-values from
common probability inequalities. IEEE Transactions on InformationForensics and Security: Special Issue on Electronic Voting, 4,
1005–1014. Reprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/pvalues09.pdf
Stark, P.B., 2009. Efficient post-election audits of multiple contests:
2009 California tests. Refereed paper presented at the 2009 Conference
on Empirical Legal Studies. Preprint: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1443314
Stark, P.B. and L. Tenorio, 2010. A Primer of Frequentist and
Bayesian Inference in Inverse Problems. In Large Scale InverseProblems and Quantification of Uncertainty, Biegler, L., G. Biros,
O. Ghattas, M. Heinkenschloss, D. Keyes, B. Mallick, L. Tenorio,
B. van Bloemen Waanders and K. Willcox, eds. John Wiley and Sons,
NY. Preprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/freqBayes09.pdf
Benaloh, J., D. Jones, E. Lazarus, M. Lindeman, and P.B. Stark,
2011. SOBA: Secrecy-preserving Observable Ballot-level Audit. 2011Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on TrustworthyElections (EVT/WOTE ’11). Preprint: http://arxiv.org/abs/1105.5803
Higgins, M.J., R.L. Rivest and P.B. Stark, 2011. Sharper p-values for
Stratified Post-Election Audits. Statistics, Politics, and Policy, 2(1),
Article 7. Reprint: http://www.bepress.com/spp/vol2/iss1/7
Shearer, P.M. and P.B. Stark, 2012. The global risk of big earthquakes
has not recently increased. Proceedings of the National Academyof Sciences, 109(3), 717–721. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1118525109.
(Commentary by G. Beroza, PNAS 2012, 109(3) 651–652. doi:
10.1073/pnas.1120744109.) Reprint: http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/12/12/1118525109.full.pdf+html
Freedman, D.A., 2009. Statistical Models and Causal Inference: A Dialogwith the Social Sciences, D. Collier, J.S. Sekhon and P.B. Stark, eds.,
Cambridge University Press, New York.
Technical Reports and Unrefereed Publications
Stark, P.B., 1988. Strict bounds and applications. in Some Topics on InverseProblems, P.C. Sabatier, ed., World Scientific, Singapore.
Donoho, D.L. and P.B. Stark, 1988. Rearrangements and Smoothing, Tech.
Rept. 148, Dept. Stat., Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
Donoho, D.L. and P.B. Stark, 1989. Recovery of a Sparse Signal When the
Low Frequency Information is Missing, Tech. Rept. 179, Dept. Statistics,
Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
Stark, P.B., 1990. Rigorous computer solutions to infinite-dimensional
inverse problems. in Inverse Methods in Action, P.C. Sabatier, ed.,
Springer-Verlag. 462–467.
Hengartner, N.W. and P.B. Stark, 1992. Conservative finite-sample
confidence envelopes for monotone and unimodal densities, Tech. Rept. 341,
Dept. Statistics, Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
Hengartner, N.W. and P.B. Stark, 1992. Confidence bounds on the
probability density of aftershocks, Tech. Rept. 352, Dept. Statistics, Univ.
Calif. Berkeley.
Stark, P.B., 1992. The Cosmic Microwave Background and Earth’s
Core-Mantle Boundary: A Tale of Two CMB’s, Tech. Rept. 371, Dept.
Statistics, Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
Genovese, C. and P.B. Stark, 1993. l1 spectral estimation: Algorithms and
tests of super-resolution, in GONG 1992: Seismic Investigations of the Sunand Stars, Proc. Astr. Soc. Pac. Conf. Ser., 42, T. Brown, ed.,
453–456.
Gough, D.O. and P.B. Stark, 1993. The significance of changes in solar
free-oscillation splitting from 1986–1990, in GONG 1992: SeismicInvestigations of the Sun and Stars, Proc. Astr. Soc. Pac. Conf. Ser., 42,
T. Brown, ed., 221–224.
Stark, P.B., 1994. Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Linear Estimates of
Linear Functionals, Tech. Rept. 417, Dept. Statistics, Univ. Calif.
Berkeley.
Sekii, T., C.R. Genovese, D.O. Gough, and P.B. Stark, 1995. Observational
constraints on the internal solar angular velocity, in Fourth SOHOWorkshop: Helioseismology, J.T. Hoeksema, V. Domingo, B. Fleck and
B. Battrick, eds., ESA Publications Division SP-376, Noordwijk, Volume 2,
279–283.
Fodor, I.K., J.G. Berryman, and P.B. Stark, 1997. Comparison of
Autoregressive and Multitaper Spectral Analysis for Long Time Series,
Stanford Exploration Project, 95, 331–355.
Borrill, J., and P.B. Stark, 1998. A fast method for bounding the CMB
power spectrum likelihood function.
Komm, R.W., Y. Gu, F. Hill, P.B. Stark, and I.K. Fodor, 1998.
Multitaper Spectral Analysis and Wavelet Denoising Applied to
Helioseismic Data, Proc. Tenth Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars,Stellar Systems and the Sun, ASP Conference Series, 154, CDR
783–790.
Komm, R.W., E. Anderson, F. Hill, R. Howe, A.G. Kosovichev,
P.H. Scherrer, J. Schou, I. Fodor, and P. Stark, 1998. Comparison of
SOHO-SOI/MDI and GONG Spectra, Proceedings of the SOHO 6/GONG98 Workshop, ’Structure and Dynamics of the Interior of the Sun
and Sun-like Stars,’ Boston, USA, 1–4 June 1998, ESA SP-418,
253–256.
Komm, R.W., E. Anderson, F. Hill, R. Howe, I. Fodor, and P. Stark,
1998. Multitaper analysis applied to a 3-month time series, Proceedings ofthe SOHO 6/GONG 98 Workshop, ’Structure and Dynamics of the Interior
of the Sun and Sun-like Stars,’ Boston, USA, 1–4 June 1998, ESA SP–418,
257–260.
Fodor, I.K. and P.B. Stark, 1999. Multitaper Spectrum Estimates for Time
Series with Missing Values, Computing Science and Statistics, 31: Models,
Predictions, and Computing. K. Berk and M. Pourahmadi, eds.,
383–387.
Stark, P.B., 2000. Inverse Problems as Statistics, in Surveys on SolutionMethods for Inverse Problems, Colton, D., H.W. Engl, A.K. Louis,
J.R. Mclaughlin and W. Rundell, eds., Springer-Verlag, New York,
253–275. Invited.
Stark, P.B., 2004. Estimating power spectra of galactic structure: can
Statistics help?, in Penetrating Bars Through Masks of Cosmic Dust: TheHubble Tuning Fork Strikes a New Note, D.L. Block, I. Puerari,
K.C. Freeman, R. Groess and E.K. Block, eds., Springer, The Netherlands,
613–617. Invited.
Schafer, C.M. and P.B. Stark, 2006. Constructing Confidence Sets of
Optimal Expected Size. Technical report 836, Department of Statistics,
Carnegie Mellon University. http://www.stat.cmu.edu/tr/tr836/tr836.html
Jefferson, D., K. Alexander, E. Ginnold, A. Lehmkuhl, K. Midstokke and
P.B. Stark, 2007. Post Election Audit Standards Report—Evaluation ofAudit Sampling Models and Options for Strengthening California’s ManualCount. http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/peas/final_peaswg_report.pdf
Higdon, D., R. Klein, M. Anderson, M. Berliner, C. Covey, O. Ghattas,
C. Graziani, S. Habib, M. Seager, J. Sefcik, P. Stark, and J. Stewart,
2010. Panel Report on Uncertainty Quantification and Error Analysis, in
Scientific Grand Challenges in National Security: The Role of Computing atthe Extreme Scale, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Advanced Scientific
Computing Research and National Nuclear Security Administration.
http://science.energy.gov/ /media/ascr/pdf/program-documents/docs/Nnsa_grand_challenges_report.pdf
Stark, P.B., 2001. Review of Who Counts? by Margo J. Anderson and
Stephen E. Fienberg, Journal of Economic Literature, XXXIX, 593–595.
Invited.
Tenorio, L., E. Haber, P.B. Stark, D. Cox, O. Ghattas and W.W. Symes,
2008. Guest editors’ introduction to the special section on statistical and
computational issues in inverse problems, Inverse problems, 24, 034001.
Reprint: http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0266-5611/24/3/034001/ip8_3_034001.pdf
Collier, D., J.S. Sekhon and P.B. Stark, 2009. Preface to David
A. Freedman, 2009. Statistical Models: Theory and Practice, Revised edition,
Cambridge University Press, New York.
Ash, A., S. Pierson and P.B. Stark, 2009. Thinking outside the urn:
Statisticians make their marks on U.S. Ballots. Amstat News, 384. 37–40.
Reprint: http://www.amstat.org/outreach/pdfs/SP_ANJun09.pdf
Risk-limiting Audits: Soup to Nuts, and Beyond, Workshop on
Electronic Voting Technology / Workshop on Transparent Elections,
(EVT/WOTE ’11), USENIX, San Francisco, CA, 9 August 2011. http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/evtRLA11.pdf
SOBA: Secrecy-preserving Observable Ballot-level Audit, Workshop on
Electronic Voting Technology / Workshop on Transparent Elections,
(EVT/WOTE ’11), USENIX, San Francisco, CA, 9 August 2011. http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/evtSoba11.pdf
Audits: The After-Math of Elections, Verify early, verify often: creating
secure, transparent and accurate elections, Election Verification
Network, Chicago, IL, 25–26 March 2011. http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/reed11.pdf
Efficient Post-Election Audits of Multiple Contests: 2009 California
Tests, Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, University of Southern
California Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, 20–21 November
2009. http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/cels09.pdf
Invited Panelist, Uncertainty Quantification and Error Analysis,
Scientific Grand Challenges in National Security: the Role of
Computing at the Extreme Scale, Washington, DC, 6–8 October 2009.
Freedman’s Dialogue with the Social Sciences, 2009 Joint Statistical
Meetings, Washington, DC, 5 August 2009.
Invited panelist, David A. Freedman’s Dialogue with the Social
Sciences, The Society for Political Methodology 26th Annual Summer
Meeting, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, New
Haven, CT, 23 July 2009.
Election Auditing: How Much is Enough?, The Society for Political
Methodology 26th Annual Summer Meeting, Institution for Social and
Policy Studies, Yale University, 23 July 2009. (Keynote lecture) http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/polMeth09.pdf
CAST: Canvass Audits by Sampling and Testing, 2008 American
Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Panel 2008MP04292:
Catch Me If You Can: Techniques to Detect Electoral Fraud, Boston,
MA, 28–31 August 2008. http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/apsa08.pdf
Invited panelist, Joint Statistical Meetings session, Statistical Measures
Can Help Restore Confidence in U.S. Elections, Denver, CO, 3–7
August 2008.
Panel on Post-Election Auditing: The Academic & Advocacy
Perspective, California Association of Clerks and Election Officials
(CACEO) 100th Anniversary Celebration Conference, Long Beach, CA,
8–11 July 2008.
Statistical Audits: Why and How Much?, Panel on Post-Election
Auditing: Practical Experience and Best Practices, California
Association of Clerks and Election Officials (CACEO) 100th
Anniversary Celebration Conference, Long Beach, CA, 8–11 July 2008.
http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/caceo08.pdf
Panel on Online Learning, UC21st Century, Teaching, Learning and
Technology: Past, present and future, University of California, Davis,
20–21 June 2008.
Resolution in Nonlinear and Constrained Inverse Problems, Workshop
on Computational and Mathematical Geoscience, Colorado School of
Mines, Golden CO, 15–17 June 2005.
Estimating power spectra of galaxy structure: can Statistics help?,
Penetrating bars through masks of cosmic dust: the Hubble tuning fork
strikes a new note, Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa, 7–12 June
2004. http:statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/bars04.ppt
Quantifying uncertainty in inverse problems, Institute for Pure and
Applied Mathematics (IPAM) Conference on Statistical Methods for
Inverse Problems, IPAM, Los Angeles, CA, 5–6 November 2003. http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ipam03.ppt
Using what we know: inference with physical constraints, PhyStat
2003: Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and
Cosmology, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA, 8–10
September 2003 http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/phyStat03.pdf
Statistical Approaches to Inverse Problems. Danish Interdisciplinary
Inversion Group Seminars on Inverse Problems: Insight and Algorithms.
Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark,
27–29 May 2002. http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/bohr02.ppt
Statistical Measures of Uncertainty in Inverse Problems. Institute for
Mathematics and its Applications Tutorial on Inverse Problems and
the Quantification of Uncertainty, Annual Program Mathematics in the
Geosciences, Minneapolis, MN, 19 March 2002. http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ima02.ppt
Data Errors, Model Errors, and Estimation Errors, Frontiers of
Geophysical Inversion Workshop, Waterways Experiment Station,
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development
Center, Vicksburg, MS, 17–19 February 2002. http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/wes02.ppt
Strategic Planning and Implementation I: The Challenge of Adapting
Organizations and Creating Partnerships to Target New Markets,
University Teaching as E-business?, Center for Studies in Higher
Education, Berkeley, CA, 26–27 October 2001.
Inverse Problems and Data Errors, New Developments in Astrophysical
Fluid Dynamics, Chateau de Mons, Caussens, France, 25–29 June 2001.
Data Reduction and Inverse Problems in Helioseismology, Workshop
“Statistics of inverse problems,” Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France,
28–29 May 2001.
Inverse Problems in Helioseismology, Second MaPhySto Workshop on
Inverse Problems: Inverse problems from a Statistical Perspective,
Aalborg, Denmark, 28–31 March 2001.
What are the Chances?, NATO Advanced Research Workshop: State of
scientific knowledge regarding earthquake occurrence and implications
for public policy, Le Dune, Piscinas — Arbus, Sardinia, Italy, 15–19
October 2000.
Why Unadjusted Census Results should be Used for Reapportionment
and Funding within the State of California, 13th Annual Demographic
Workshop, U.S. Bureau of the Census, California State Census Data
Center, and the Population Research Laboratory of the University of
Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 15 May 2000.
Invited Discussant, Workshop of the National Academy of Sciences
Panel to Review the 2000 Census, Washington, D.C., 2–3 February
2000.
Discussant, Panel Discussion on the role of sampling in the US
Census, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Statistical
Association, 20 December 1999.
Lecturer, Mathematical Geophysics Summer School, Stanford
University, Stanford, CA, 2–20 August 1999.
Less Asymptotic Tomography. 9th SOHO Workshop: Helioseismic
Diagnostics of Solar Convection and Activity, Stanford University,
Stanford, CA, 12–15 July 1999.
Panelist, Reinventing Undergraduate Education: Technology Enhanced
Learning in the Sciences, Math, and Engineering, University of
California, Berkeley, CA, 23 April 1999.
Error in Numerical Models Fitted to Data. DSRC/DARPA Study on
Numerical Simulation of Physical Systems: The State of the Art, and
Opportunities for Further Advances, Kick-Off Meeting, Arlington, VA,
19–20 January 1999. http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/dsrc99.htm
SticiGui: Melts in your Browser, not in your Brain, Joint
Berkeley-Stanford Statistics Colloquium, Department of Statistics,
Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 27 October 1998. http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/bsc98.htm
SticiGui: Statistics Tools for Internet and Classroom Instruction with
a Graphical User Interface, 1998 Joint Statistical Meetings of the
American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, and
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Orlando, FL, 12 August 1998.
Presidential Panel on Statistics in Public Policy, 1998 Joint Statistical
Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International
Biometric Society, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Orlando,
FL, 10 August 1998.
Misfit Measures and Statistical Inconsistency in Linear Inverse
Problems. AMS/IMS/SIAM Joint Summer Research Conferences
in the Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Methods in Inverse
Problems for Partial Differential Equations, Mt. Holyoke, MA, 4–9
July 1998. http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ams-ims-siam-98.pdf
Sounding the Sun: Helioseismology. 1998 American Association for
the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting and Science
Innovation Exposition, Philadelphia, PA., February 1998. http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/Aaas/helio.htm
Deficiencies of the simple theories, Local Helioseismology Workshop,
University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1997.
CMB’s, Royal Astronomical Society Ordinary Meeting, London,
England, 1996.
The Null Hypothesis, Royal Astronomical Society and Joint
Associations for Geophysics discussion meeting on Assessment of
Schemes for Earthquake Prediction, London, England, 1996.
On the consistency of multiple inference in inverse problems using lp
confidence sets, International Conference on Multiple Comparisons, Tel
Aviv, Israel=, 1996.
Confidence Intervals in Inverse Problems, Conference in Honor of
George Backus, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La
Jolla, CA, 1995.
The Need for Wave-Equation Travel-Time Tomography, Institute
for Mathematics and Its Applications, Conference on Tomography,
Minneapolis, MN, 1995.
Inference, Prior Information, and Misfit Measures, Interdisciplinary
Inversion Conference on Methodology, Computation and Integrated
Applications, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, 1995.
Optimization and Inference in Travel-Time Seismology, National
Research Council Board on Mathematical Sciences Symposium on
Mathematical Sciences in Seismology, Washington, DC, 1995.
Prior Information and Confidence Intervals in Inverse Problems,
International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Meeting, Boulder, CO,
1995.
Something AGAINST Nothing: A Confidence Game, Joint Statistical
Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International
Biometric Society, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Orlando,
FL, 1995.
Uncertainties in Travel-Time Seismology, SIAM/GAMM Symposium
on Inverse Problems: Geophysical Applications, Fish Camp, CA, 1995.
Toward Tubular Tomography, 27th General Assembly of the Int. Assoc.
of Seismology and Phys. of the Earth’s Inter. (IASPEI), Wellington,
New Zealand, 1994.
Alternative Data Analysis Techniques, Global Oscillation Network
Group annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, (presented by C. Genovese
due to illness), 1994.
Mathematical Aspects of Integral Equation Inversion, Global
Oscillation Network Group workshop, Sydney, Australia, 1994.
Conservative Finite-Sample Confidence Envelopes for Monotone and
Unimodal Densities, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach
meeting on Curves, Images and Massive Computation, Oberwolfach,
Germany, 1993.
Uncertainty of the Quadrupole Component of the Cosmic Microwave
Background, Israel Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Tel Aviv,
1993.
Brute-Force Minimax Estimation in Geochemistry, Joint Statistical
Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International
Biometric Society, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, San
Francisco, CA, 1993.
Conservative Numerical Uncertainty Estimates in Inverse Problems,
SIAM 40th Anniversary Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 1992.
Minimax Estimation in Geomagnetism, European Geophysical Society
Annual Meeting, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1991.
Minimax Estimation in Geophysical Inverse Problems: Applications to
Seismic Tomography and Geomagnetism, Schmitt Institute for Physics
of the Earth, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1991.
Imagining Earth’s Interior: Controversies in Seismology and
Geomagnetism, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Workshop
on Statistical Methods in Imaging, Berkeley, CA, 1991.
Discretization and its Discontents: New Methods in Inverse Theory,
Institute for Theoretical Physics program “Helioseismology—Probing
the Interior of a Star,” National Science Foundation Institute for
Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990.
Inference in Infinite-Dimensional Inverse Problems, Schmitt Institute
for Physics of the Earth, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow,
1990.
Inference in Infinite-Dimensions: Discretization and Duality, Israel
Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Jerusalem, 1990.
Superresolution: What, When and How?, Institute for Theoretical
Physics program “Helioseismology—Probing the Interior of a Star,”
National Science Foundation Institute for Theoretical Physics,
University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990.
Sparsity-Constrained Deconvolution, International Union of Radio
Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, 1989.
Discussant, Statistics, Earth and Space Sciences Meeting of the
Bernoulli Society, Leuven, Belgium, 1989.
Rigorous Computer
Solutions to Infinite-Dimensional Inverse Problems, rcp 264 problemes
inverses, Montpellier, France, 1989.
Duality and Discretization Error, Conference on Mathematical
Geophysics, Blanes, Spain, 1988.
Spectral extrapolation with positivity, International Union of Radio
Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, 1987.
Travel-Time Constraints on Core Structure, Special Session on
Geophysics of the Core and Core-Mantle Boundary, American
Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 1986.
Smooth Models from tau(p) and X(p) Data, Scripps Industrial
Associates Short Course on Inverse Theory, Scripps Institution of
Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, 1986.
Invited Seminars
California State University, Chico (Mathematics 1993)
Colorado School of Mines (Dept. of Mathematical and Computer
Sciences, 1997)
Copenhagen University (Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics,
and Geophysics 1996)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Statistics 1993)
Kansas State University (Statistics 2008)
Pennsylvania State University (Statistics 1010)
National Solar Observatory (1997)
Naval Postgraduate School (Operations Research, 2001)
Reed College (Mathematics, 2007, 2008, 2011)
Rice University (Statistics, 2010)
Schlumberger-Doll Research (1988, 1990, 1991, 1992)
Southern Methodist University (Statistical Sciences, 1998)
Stanford University (Center for Space Physics and Astrophysics 1992;
Mathematics, 1997; Geology and Geophysics, 1993, 1997; Statistics
1988, 1993, 1995, 2011)
The Technion (Statistics 1987)
Tel Aviv University (Geology and Geophysics 1988, 1991; Statistics
1991, 2010)
University of British Columbia (Geophysics and Astronomy 1996)
University of California, Berkeley (Astronomy 1996; Center for
Pure and Applied Mathematics 1988; Geology and Geophysics
1988; Materials Science and Mineral Engineering 1988; Physics,
2001; Seismographic Stations, 1991, 1992, 1996; Statistics 1987,
1988(2),1989(2), 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996(2), 1997, 2006, 2009,
2011)
University of California, Davis (Statistics 1995, 2006; Mathematics
2000)
University of California, Los Angeles (Mathematics 1992; Statistics
2000, 2008)
University of California, Riverside (Earth Sciences 1996; Statistics
1996)
University of California, San Diego (Institute for Geophysics and
Planetary Physics 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988(2), 1990, 1998, 2005;
Mathematics 1994)
University of Cambridge (Institute for Astronomy 1992, 1997)
University of Chicago (Statistics 1990)
University of Edinburgh (Earth Sciences, 1998)
University of Paris, Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris (2011)
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton Statistics Department, 2011)
University of Texas at Austin (Geological Sciences 1988; Mathematics
1990, 1991; Institute for Geophysics 1990)
Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System, Martinez,
CA (East Bay Institute for Research and Education, 2007)
Yale University (Geology and Geophysics 1988; Statistics 1988)
Judge upholds November election of Novato Sanitary District board.
Brent Ainsworth, The Marin Independent Journal, 8 March 2010.
(Contested election) http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_14636416
Introduction to Probability and Statistics (Statistics 20)
Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business (Statistics 21, N21,
W21)
Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Scientists and Engineers
(Statistics 25)
Freshman Seminar on Statistics (Statistics 39)
Statistical Inferences for Social and Life Scientists (Statistics 131A)
Concepts of Probability (Statistics 134)
Concepts of Statistics (Statistics 135)
Linear Modeling: Theory and Applications (Statistics 151A)
Introduction to Probability and Statistics at an Advanced Level
(Statistics 200A)
Theoretical Statistics (Statistics 210B)
Applied Statistics (Statistics 215B)
Nonparametric and Robust Methods (Statistics 240)
Topics in Probability and Statistics (Statistics 260)
Statistical Consulting (Statistics 272)
Former Graduate Students and Postdocs
Imola K. Fodor, Genentech
Christopher R. Genovese, Carnegie Mellon University
Niklaus W. Hengartner, Los Alamos National Laboratory
Janne Huttunen, University of Auckland
Bradley Luen
Dmitry I. Nikolayev, Schmidt Institute for Physics of the Earth
R. Jay Pulliam, University of Texas
Chad M. Schafer, Carnegie Mellon University
Graduate Committees
Alameida, Jose, Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2008
Bach, Andre, Physics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2011
Bar-Yossef, Ziv, Computer Science. Ph.D. qualifying examination,
2001; dissertation committee, “The Complexity of Massive Data Set
Computations,” 2002
Bein, Ed, Biostatistics. MA examination, 2002
Berny, Axel Dominique, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2004;
dissertation committee, “Analysis and Design of Wideband LC VCOs,”
2006
Bodik, Peter, Computer Science. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2007;
dissertation committee, “Automating Datacenter Operations Using
Machine Learning,” 2010
Bowman, John Penfield, IEOR. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2003
Bunn, Emory Freeman, Physics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1994;
dissertation committee, “Statistical Analysis of Cosmic Microwave
Background Anisotropy,” 1995
Burstein, Richard David II, Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying
examination, 2004; dissertation committee, “Hadamard Subfactors of
Bisch-Haagerup Type,” 2008.
Buttrey, Samuel Edward, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination,
1994; dissertation committee, “Nearest-Neighbor Classification with
Categorical Variables,” 1996
Calef, Brandoch Hugh, Applied Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying
examination, 1997; dissertation committee, “Optimal Sampling of the
Discrete Fourier Transform,” 2002
Charman, Andrew Emile, Physics. Ph.D. qualifying examination,
2003; dissertation committee, “Random Aspects of Beam Physics and
Laser-Plasma Interactions,” 2006
Chen, Raymond Lei, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1993;
dissertation committee, “A Qualitative Modeling Framework of
Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes: Self-Learning Fuzzy Inference
System and the Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data,” 1994
Chien, Georgs, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1998
Feldman, Arnold R., EECS. Ph.D. qualifying
examination, 1995; dissertation committee, “High-Speed, Low-Power
Sigma-Delta Modulators for RF Baseband Channel Applications,” 1997
Fodor, Imola K., Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1997; chair,
dissertation committee, “Spectrum Estimation in Helioseismology,”
1999
Fong, Keng Leong, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1996;
dissertation committee, “Design and Optimization Techniques for
Monolithic RF Downconversion Mixers,” 1997
Gagnon-Bartsch, Johann, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination,
2009
Gawiser, Eric Joseph, Physics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1998
Genovese, Christopher Ralph, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying
examination, 1992; chair, dissertation committee, “Statistical Problems
in Helioseismology,” 1994
Goldman, Megan, Biostatistics. Chair, Ph.D. qualifying examination,
2009
Gung, Yuan-Cheng, Geophysics. Dissertation committee, “Q
Tomography of the Earth Mantle,” 2003
Hansen, Mark Henry, Statistics. Chair, Ph.D. qualifying examination,
1992
Hengartner, Niklaus Walther, Statistics. Co-chair, dissertation
committee, “Topics in Density Estimation,” 1993
Higgins, Mike, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2009, 2010.
Huang, Hsiang-Ping, Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying examination,
1996
Huang, Jianhua, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1994;
dissertation committee, “Topics in Extended Linear Modeling,” 1997
Huang, Yuanlin, Civil Engineering. Ph.D. qualifying examination,
1993, 1994
Jiang, Xuesong, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2001
Jones, David Morgan, Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying examination,
1994; dissertation committee, “On Modular Galois Representations in
Characteristic 3,” 1998
Katsis, Dimitrios, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2005
Kiesling, Max Karl, Civil Engineering. Ph.D. qualifying examination,
1994
Li, Bo, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2004
Loscutoff, Peter, Physics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2011
Luen, Bradley, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2006; Chair,
dissertation committee, “Earthquake Prediction: Simple Methods for
Complex Phenomena,” 2010
Madar, Vered, Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University.
MA thesis committee, “Non-equivariant confidence intervals,” 2002
Megnin, Charles Henri, Geophysics. Ph.D. qualifying examination,
1996; dissertation committee, “The Shear Velocity Structure of the
Mantle from the Inversion of Time-Domain Waveform Data,” 1999
Mieler, Michael William, Civil Engineering. Ph.D. qualifying
examination, 2011.
Miratrix, Luke W., Statistics. Chair, Ph.D. qualifying examination,
2010
Murmann, Boris, EECS.
Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2002; dissertation committee, “Digital
Calibration for Low-Power High-Performance A/D Conversion,” 2003
Ou, Jeffrey Jiajiunn, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1995
Petkov, Vladimir Plamenov, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination,
2003
Poobuapheun, Nuntachai, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2005;
dissertation committee. “LNA and Mixer Designs for Multi-Band
Receiver Front-Ends,” 2009
Pulliam, R. Jay, Geophysics. Ph.D. dissertation committee, “Imaging
Earth’s Interior: Tomographic Inversion of Mantle P-Wave Velocity
Structure,” 1991
Qian, Kun, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2009
Rein, Steven Richard, Statistics. Chair, Ph.D. qualifying examination,
1990
Schafer, Chad Michael, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2001;
chair, dissertation committee, “Constructing Confidence Regions of
Optimal Expected Size: Theory and Application to Cosmic Microwave
Inference,” 2004
Son, Sang Won, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2000;
dissertation committee, “High Dynamic Range CMOS Mixer Design,”
2002
Suzuki, Toru, Demography. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1995;
dissertation committee, “Projection of Households in Japan with a
Dynamic Macro-Simulation Model,” 1999
Tee, Luns, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2001
Tenorio, Luis-Francisco, Mathematics. Ph.D. dissertation committee,
“Asymptotic Dynamics of Locally Oblique Solitary Wave Soltuions of
the KP Equation,” 1992
To, Albert Chi Fu, Statistics. MA committee, 2005
Wagner, Tim Allen, CS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1995;
dissertation committee, “Practical Algorithms for Incremental Software
Development Environments,” 1997
Wicks, Charles Wesley Jr., Geophysics. Ph.D. qualifying examination,
1990; dissertation committee, “An Investigation of Mantle
Discontinuities Beneath the Southwest Pacific,” 1994
Ying, Jun, Naval Architecture. D. Eng. qualifying examination, 1995;
dissertation committee, “Development and Verification of Computer
Simulation Models for Evaluation of Siting Strategies and Evacuation
Procedures for Mobile Drilling Units in Hurricanes,” 1996
Zhang, Xiaoyan, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1997
Zagheni, Emilio, Demography. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2008
Service
Professional Societies and Government Agencies
2012
Program committee, 2012 Electronic Voting
Technology / Workshop on Transparent Elections (EVT/WOTE
’12), USENIX Security Symposium, Bellevue, WA
Session organizer, 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American
Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, and
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, San Diego, CA
Session organizer, 1st Conference of the International Society for
NonParametric Statistics, Chalkidiki, Greece
Organizing committee co-chair, SIAM/ASA/SAMSI/USACM
Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Raleigh, NC
Consultant, California Secretary of State
Consultant, Colorado Secretary of State
2011
Consultant and Expert Witness, U.S. Department of Justice,
Civil Division (for Department of Housing and Urban
Development)
Organizing committee co-chair, SIAM/ASA/SAMSI/USACM
Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Raleigh, NC
Consultant, California Secretary of State
Consultant, Colorado Secretary of State
2010
Consultant and Expert Witness, U.S. Department of Justice,
Civil Division (for Department of Housing and Urban
Development)
Reviewer, Department of Defense Strategic Environmental
Research and Development Program
Consultant and Expert Witness, U.S. Department of Justice,
Civil Division
2005
Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
Consultant, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
Consultant, Habeas Corpus Resource Center
2004
Reviewer, National Science Foundation
Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
Consultant, U.S. Attorney’s Office
Consultant, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
2003
Reviewer, National Science Foundation
Referee, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of
Canada
Consultant, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
2002
Consultant, U.S. Department of Agriculture
Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
2001
Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
Co-organizer, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications
Annual Program Mathematics in the Geosciences and workshop
on Inverse Problems and the Quantification of Uncertainty
2000
Discussant, National Academy of Science Committee on National
Statistics workshop on dual-system estimation for the 2000 Census
Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
1998
Witness, U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the
Census.
Panelist, National Science Foundation
1997
Session organizer, International Statistical Institute and Bernoulli
Society Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey
1996–present
Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) Data Users
Committee (Chair, 1996–1998)
Reviewer for United States Geological Survey
1996–1999
Consultant, National Security Agency
1995
Institute of Mathematical Statistics Program Chair, Joint
Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association,
International Biometric Society, and Institute of Mathematical
Statistics, Orlando, FL
1994–1996
Consultant to Federal Trade Commission
1993
Session organizer and chair, IMS/ASA/ENAR meeting,
Philadelphia, PA
Session organizer and chair, Joint Statistical Meetings of the
American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society,
and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, San Francisco, CA
1992
Faculty sponsor, Department of Energy TRAC program
1990–1994
Bernoulli Society Committee on Statistics in the Physical Sciences
1991–present
Reviewer for National Aeronautics and Space Administration
(Space Physics Division)
1991
Local organizer and session chair, Mathematical Sciences Research
Institute Workshop on Statistical Methods in Imaging, Berkeley,
CA
1989
Session organizer and chair, Bernoulli Society Satellite Meeting,
Leuven, Belgium
1989–present
Reviewer for National Science Foundation (Atmospheric Sciences,
Infrastructure, International Programs, Mathematical Sciences,
Solar-Terrestrial Program, Statistics and Probability)
Non-Profit Corporations and Private Industry
2011–present
Board of Advisors, Verified Voting Foundation
2010–2011
Technical Advisory Board, Clear Ballot Group
2007
Advisory Board, Facebar, Inc.
2000–2001
Technical Advisory Board, Cogit.com
2000–2002
National Advisory Board, eTextbooksOnline.com
Technical Advisory Board, Atomic Dog Publishing
Editorial Service
2011–present
Editor, Frontiers in Probability and Statistics
2008
Guest Editor, Inverse Problems
1998–1999
Editor, Statistical Science
1997–2000
Editorial Board, Inverse Problems
1994–1998
Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research
Referee Service
American Association for the Advancement of Science
American Mathematical Monthly
Annales Geophysicae
Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Annals of Statistics
Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
Astrophysical Journal
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Cambridge University Press
Chapman-Hall
Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
Electronic Journal of Statistics
Geophysical Journal International
Geophysical Research Letters
Geophysics
Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
HarperCollins
IEEE Journal on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
IEEE Journal on Information Theory
Inverse Problems
Inverse Problems and Imaging
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Economic Literature
Journal of Geophysical Research
Jurimetrics
Nature
Nature Climate Change
Political Analysis
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Science
SIAM Review
Simon and Schuster
Springer-Verlag
Statistical Science
Tectonophysics
University Service
2011–2012
Acting Department Chair, Department of Statistics, July–August
Vice Chair, Department of Statistics
Academic Senate Alternate Representative to University of
California Statewide Assembly
Academic Senate Committee on Academic Planning and Resource
Allocation (CAPRA)
Campus Committee on Classroom Policy and Management
(CCCPM)
Business Resumption Coordination Group (BRCG)
Program Advisory Committee, Doctor of Business Administration
Program, Lincoln University
2010–2011
Academic Senate Committee on Academic Planning and Resource
Allocation (CAPRA)
Campus Committee on Classroom Policy and Management
(CCCPM)
Faculty Assistant in Educational Technology (to Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Education)
Chair, Educational Technology Committee
Provost’s Academic Council
e-Berkeley Steering Committee
e-Berkeley Implementation Task Force
Campus Committee on Classroom Policy and Management
(CCCPM)
Student Systems Policy Committee
e-Berkeley Symposium Program Committee
Faculty Search Committee, Graduate School of Education
CourseWeb Steering Committee
2001–2002
Faculty Assistant in Educational Technology (to Vice Provost for
Undergraduate Education)
Chair, Educational Technology Committee
Provost’s Academic Council
e-Berkeley Steering Committee
e-Berkeley Implementation Task Force
Campus Committee on Classroom Policy and Management
(CCCPM)
Academic Senate Committee on Academic Planning and Resource
Allocation (CAPRA)
CITRIS II Program Committee
TeleBEARS and Bear Facts Committees (combined into Student
Systems Policy Committee as of 3/2002)
e-Berkeley Portal Working Group
Faculty search committee, Graduate School of Education
2000–2001
Space Allocation and Capital Improvements (SACI)
Academic Senate Committee on Academic Planning and Resource
Allocation (CAPRA)
CAPRA Subcommittee on Expanded Enrollment
CAPRA Subcommittee on changes to Academic Coordinator title
Ad hoc hiring/tenure committee
1999–2000
Space Allocation and Capital Improvements (SACI)
Academic Senate Library Committee (LIBR)
Academic Senate Committee on Academic Planning and Resource
Allocation (CAPRA), Physical Planning Subcommittee, ex officio
representative from Library Committee
Academic Effects Study Committee, Molecular Engineering
Building
Ad hoc tenure/promotion committee
SACI subcommittee to audit space in Barrows Hall
1998–1999
Space Allocation and Capital Improvements (SACI)
Electronic Dissertations Project
Planning Space for the Physical Sciences Libraries
1997–1998
Ad hoc tenure/promotion committee
1996
Review of College of Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum
and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
1994–1999
University review committee for Department of Agricultural and
Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
1993–1995
Physical Sciences Division committee for Graduate Affirmative
Action and Retention
Physical Sciences Division committee for Science and
Mathematics Academic Re-Training (SMART)
Contracts and Grants
PI, NASA Grant NAG 5-883, “Constructing Core Fields Consistent
with Geomagnetic Data and Geophysical Constraints,” 1987–1990.
Project Director and PI, NSF Grant DMS-8810192, “Inference in
Curved-Ray Tomography: Solid Earth Structure,” 1989–1992.
PI, NSF Grant INT-9205103, “Long and Medium-Term Research:
Inference in Seismological Investigations of Subducting Lithosphere,”
1992–1994.
PI, NSF Grant DMS-930006P, “Estimating the Sun’s Internal Angular
Velocity from Free-Oscillation Frequency Splittings,” 1993–1994.
PI, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award DMS-8957573,
1989–1995.
Co-I, NASA Grant NAG5-2438, “The Analysis of Cobe DMR Sky
Maps,” 1993–1994. PI: J. Silk
PI, NASA Grant NAGW-2515, “New Methods for Inversion and
Analysis of Solar Free-Oscillation Data,” 1991–1995.
PI, NSF Grant DMS-9404276, “New Methods for Inference From
COBE Data,” 1994–1997.
PI, NSF Grant AST-9504410, “Function Estimation and Inference in
Helioseismology,” 1995–1998.
PI, LLNL/IGPP Grant 97-AP028, “Helioseismology with Solar
Luminosity Constraints,” 1996–1997.
Co-I, NASA Grant NAG5-3941, “Development of data analysis,
compression and visualization tools for large data sets in astrophysics
and cosmology,” 1997–1998. PI: J. Silk
PI, NASA Grant NRA-96-09-OSS-034SOHO, “Modern Statistical
Methods for Helioseismic Spectrum Estimation,” 1997–1998.
PI, NASA Grant NAG 5-3919, “Data Sampling Rate Reduction for the
Oersted Satellite,” 1997–1998.
PI, State of Colorado U.S. Election Assistance Commission subaward
UC01, 2010 Pre-Election Logic and Accuracy Testing and Post-Election
Audit Initiative, 5/23/2011–4/23/2013.
PI, State of California Election Assistance Commission subaward
10I10066, Post Election Risk-Limiting Audit Pilot Program,
9/13/2011–4/23/2013.
Consulting and Expert Witness Experience
Bramson, Plutzik, Mahler & Birkhaeuser LLP, Walnut Creek, CA:
consumer class action litigation
Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, CA: product liability class action
litigation, causal inference in litigation (clients American Cemwood,
Iovate Health Sciences)
Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, San Francisco, CA: consumer class action
litigation, sampling (clients Verizon Wireless, Philip Morris)
Murphy & McGonigle, Washington, DC: risk management and credit
loss forecasting (client Capital One)
National Security Agency: adaptive filtering, combining expert
opinions, digital communications, information retrieval, estimation
National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ: spectrum estimation
Albert A. Natoli, P.C., New York, NY: surveys in consumer class action
litigation
Nichols Kaster PLLP, Minneapolis, MN: sampling and damage
estimation in consumer class action litigation
Office of the Attorney General, State of California, Oakland, CA:
sampling in litigation (client California Highway Patrol)
Oracle: sampling and risk analysis
Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco, CA: statistics and causal
inference in litigation
State of Illinois, Monroe County State’s Attorney, Waterloo, IL:
evidence in capital prosecution
St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Baltimore, MD:
projecting tort liability
U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California: ethnic bias in
grand jury selection
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.: fairness in lending,
import restrictions and risk assessment
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Washington,
D.C.: estimation and modeling
U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington,
D.C.: disparate impact of disaster-relief program
U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch,
Washington, D.C.: sampling the Internet and testing Internet content
filters; USDA import restrictions on cattle and beef; disparate racial
impact in HUD disaster relief
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Martinez, CA:
speech and non-speech hearing segregation in aging
U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.: sampling to adjust
the U.S. Census
Willoughby, Stuart & Bening, San Jose, CA: insurance litigation
Zimmerman Reed, Scottsdale, AZ: consumer class action litigation
Recent Testimony (incomplete prior to 2003)
October 2011. Buckheit vs. Dennis et al. (U.S. District Court,
Northern District of California, Case CV09-5000 JCS). Deposition.
March 2010. Sharpley and Abeling vs. William Long, Novato Sanitary
District et al. (State of California Superior Court, County of Marin,
Case CIV 096368). Trial testimony.
January 2010. Kastanos et al. vs. Central Concrete Supply Co., Inc.
(State of California Superior Court, County of Alameda, Lead Case
No. HG 07-319366). Trial testimony.
June 2009. Star Scientific, Inc., vs. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company,
et al. (U.S. District Court, Maryland District, Northern Division, Case
Nos. MJG-01 1504 and MJG-02 2504). Trial testimony.
May 2009. Star Scientific, Inc., vs. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company,
et al. (U.S. District Court, Maryland District, Northern Division, Case
Nos. MJG-01 1504 and MJG-02 2504). Deposition.
July 2008. Coordination Proceeding Special Title (Rule 1550(b))
Cellphone Termination Fee Cases (State of California Superior Court,
County of Alameda). Deposition.
April 2008. Coordination Proceeding Special Title (Rule 1550(b))
Cellphone Termination Fee Cases (State of California Superior Court,
County of Alameda). Deposition.
August 2007. Self-Insurers’ Security Fund vs. Gallagher Bassett
Services, Inc. (U.S. District Court, Northern District of California,
Case No. C 06-02828 JSW). Deposition.
March 2007. Peter Wachtell vs. Capital One Financial Corporation and
Capital One Services, Inc. (U.S. District Court, District of Idaho, Case
No. CIV03-267-S-MHW). Deposition.
November 2006. Coordination Proceeding Special Title (Rule 1550(b))
Cellphone Termination Fee Cases (State of California Superior Court,
County of Alameda). Deposition.
November 2006. ACLU vs. Gonzales (U.S. District Court, Eastern
District of Pennsylvania, Civil Action No. 98-5591). Trial testimony.
August 2006. ACLU vs. Gonzales (U.S. District Court, Eastern
District of Pennsylvania, Civil Action No. 98-5591). Deposition.
December 2004. Star Scientific, Inc., vs. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco
Company, et al. (U.S. District Court, Maryland District, Northern
Division, Case Nos. MJG-01 1504 and MJG-02 2504). Trial testimony.
December 2003. Richison et al. vs. American Cemwood Corporation
(State of California Superior Court, San Joaquin County, Case
No. 005532). Trial testimony.
December 2003. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. vs. City and County of
San Francisco (U.S. District Court, Northern District of California,
Case No. C99-2071 VRW). Deposition.
May 2003. Richison et al. vs. American Cemwood Corporation (State
of California Superior Court, San Joaquin County, Case No. 005532).
Deposition.
May 1998. Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives
Subcommittee on the Census. Legislative hearing.
1997. Testimony before the State of California Senate Committee on
Natural Resources. Legislative hearing.