Preceded by Nicholas B. Dirks Name David Madigan | Children Cian, Orna, and Rory Spouse(s) Aine Madigan Role Statistician | |
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Born December 11, 1962 (age 61)
Athlone, Ireland ( 1962-12-11 ) Profession Statistician, Professor Website www.stat.columbia.edu/~madigan | ||
Alma mater Trinity College Dublin | ||
David madigan sackler big data colloquium
David Bennett Madigan (born December 11, 1962) is an Irish and American statistician and academic. He is currently the Executive Vice-President for Arts and Sciences, Dean of the Faculty, and Professor of Statistics at Columbia University. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Statistics at Columbia University (2008-2013), Dean of Physical and Mathematical Sciences at Rutgers University (2005-2007), Director of the Institute of Biostatistics at Rutgers University (2003-2004), and Professor in the Department of Statistics at Rutgers University (2001-2007).
Contents
- David madigan sackler big data colloquium
- David madigan welcoming remarks
- Education
- Early career
- Honors
- Scholarship
- Personal life
- References
David madigan welcoming remarks
Education
Dr. Madigan received his bachelor's degree in Mathematical Sciences (1984, First Class Honours, Gold Medal) and a Ph.D. in Statistics (1990), both from Trinity College Dublin.
Early career
Madigan began his academic career in the 1990s at the University of Washington where he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Statistics, winning the University's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1995. Dr. Madigan has also served as Vice President, Data Mining, Soliloquy, Inc. (2000-2001), Principal Technical Staff Member, AT&T Labs-Research (1999-2000), Information Technology Consultant, KPMG (1989-1990), Technology Manager, Peregrine Expert Systems Ltd. (1986-1989), Expert System Consultant, SkillSoft, (1985-1986), and Actuarial Associate, Hibernian Life Assurance, Ireland (1984-1985).
Honors
Madigan is an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (2014), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2006), and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1999). He served as Editor-in-Chief of Statistical Science, 2008-2010, and as Editor-in-Chief of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, the ASA Data Science Journal, 2013-2015.
Scholarship
He has over 160 publications in such areas as Bayesian statistics, text mining, Monte Carlo methods, pharmacovigilance and probabilistic graphical models. He has advised 18 Ph.D. students. In recent years he has focused on statistical methodology for generating reliable evidence from large-scale healthcare data. From 2011 to 2014 he was a member of the FDA's Drug Safety and Risk Management Advisory Committee.
Personal life
Madigan grew up in Athlone in the center of Ireland where he attended the Marist Brothers schools. He is married to Áine Madigan. They have three college-age children and live in suburban New Jersey.