HAMPARSUM BOZDOGAN,Ph.D.
Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics
336 SMC
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996-0532
Phone & Voice Mail:(423)974-1635
Fax:               (423)974-2490 
E-MAIL:bozdogan@utk.edu







Personal:


 Born: Kayseri (Caesaria), Turkey
 Date of Birth: January 2, 1945
 Marital Status: Married (Spouse: Nancy, and two boys)
 Citizenship: U.S. Citizen (January 25, 1977)
 Ethnicity: Armenian
Education and Degrees:

August 1981 Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Major: Probability and Statistics (Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Model Selection)

Minor: Operations Research

Ph.D. Thesis title: Multi-Sample Cluster Analysis and Approaches to Validity Studies in Clustering Individuals, Supervisor: Prof. Stanley L. Sclove.

June 1978 M.S. Mathematics, University of Illinois at Chicago.

Major: Mathematics, Probability and Statistics.

June 1970 B.S. Mathematics, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

Major: Mathematics

Positions Held and Professional Experience:

1995-to date Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, The University of Tennessee, 336 Stokely Management Center,Knoxville, TN 37996-053.

*Duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics, Ph.D. curriculum and course development, research, directing theses, and consulting.

1990-1995 Associate Professor of Statistics, Department of Statistics, and and Adjunt Associate Professor of Mathematics (1994-1996),

*Duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics, Ph.D.curriculum development, research, directing theses, and consulting.

1983-1989 Assistant Professor in Statistics, Department of Mathematics, University of Virginia, Mathematics-Astronomy Building, Charlottesville, Virginia.

*Duties include teaching undergraduate and graduate courses in statistics and mathematics, curriculum development, research, directing theses, and consulting.

*Chairman, Statistics Forum of the University of Virginia, 1984-88.

*Graduate and Hiring Committee member in Statistics.

January 10- August 10, 188 Visiting Associate Professor and Research Fellow, the Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Tokyo, Japan.

1981-1983 Assistant Professor, Department of Quantitative Methods, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois.

*Duties included teaching undergraduate and graduate MBA courses in statistics,curriculum development, research, and consulting.

1980-1981 Lecturer, Department of Quantitative Methods, College of Business Administration, University of Illinois, Chicago, Illinois.

*Duties included teaching undergraduate courses in statistics, research, consulting, and serving in undergraduate curriculum committee.

Spring & Winter 1979 Guest Instructor, Department of Mathematics, Mundelein College, Chicago, Illinois.

*Duties included teaching statistics to undergraduates in the Weekend College.

Fall 1974 Instructor, School of Physical Therapy, Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.

*Duties included teaching statistical methods in research and SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) to physical therapy students.

January 1973-May 1975 Research Associate in Statistics, Searle Rehabilitation Research Center, Sociological Research Unit, Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago-Northwestern University McGaw Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois.

*Duties included research in the areas of multivariate statistical analysis, experimental design, the design and the analysis of sample surveys, regression analysis, project and program evaluation, the linkage of these areas with computer statistical and library packages in medical and sociological rehabilitation research problems. Supervised research assistants and other research staff. Served as a high-level statistical consultant for other departments involved in medical research in the areas: calcium and bone cancer research, neuromuscular research, stroke, pulmonary rehabilitation research, and others.

1971-1972 Teaching Fellow, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan.

*Duties included teaching introductory probability and statistical applications to industrial engineering undergraduate students.

1969-1970 Teaching Assistant (Senior Year), Department of Mathematics Extension, University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin.

*Duties included teaching correspondence courses in mathematics to Army, Navy, and Air Force servicemen.

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Doctoral & Masters Committees Served-Provided Problems and Solutions:

Academic and Professional Services:

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Collaboration with Statistical/Mathematical Journals: 

Referee:
Editor: 


Special Section of Psychometrika, Vol.52, No.3, September 1987 on Statistical Modeling and Model Evaluation. Three-volume set of the Proceedings of the First US/Japan Conference of the Frontiers of Statistical Modeling:An Informational Approach.
Editor:
Statistical Modeling,Computation,and Data Analysis Book Series Chief of Kluwer Academic Publishers, (expected 1996).
Co-Editor& Founder(With A.K.Gupta) a journal entitled:
Conferences and Symposia Organized: 


Chairman and Host, Advanced Symposium on Multivariate Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis, Annual Meeting of ASA Virginia Chapter of the Virginia Academy of Sciences at James Madison University, Harrisonburg, Virginia, May 15-16, 1986.
Chairman of the Organizing Committee and Host, Second Conference of the International Federation of the Classification Societies (IFCS), University of Virginia, June 27-30, 1989.
Organizer:(1) New Developments in Classification and Clustering,,and (2) Model Selection In Covariance Structures at the Joint Meeting of the Classification Society of North America (CSNA) and the Psychometric Society, Rutgers University, June 13-16, 1991.
Organizer of invited Session on Model Selection in Classification and Clustering at the Third Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS)-1991, Heriott-Watt University, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 6-9, 1991.
Director and Host of the First US/Japan Conference on:The Frontiers of Statistical Modeling:An Informational Approach, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, May 25-29,1992.
Co-Chair of the Scientific Program Committee of the International Society of Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) 1997, Istanbul, Turkey, August 15-18, 1997.
Most Recent Invited Lectures for Professional Societies/Universities:
A New Informational Complexity Criterion for Model Selection: The General Theory and
Its Applications. Invited paper presented at the Information Theoretic Models & Inference of the
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences(INFORMS),Washington D.C.,
during May 5-8, 1996.
Univariate Mixture of Cubic B-Splines Approach to Detecting Multivariate Modality Using
Model Selection Criteria.Invited paper at the Fuzzy & Probabilistic Methods for Clustering at the 5-th
Conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS-96) Kobe, Japan, during
March 27-30,1996.
Mixture-Model Cluster Analysis Using Model Selection Criteria and a New Informational
Measure of Complexity.Invited paper at the International Workshop on Statistical Mixture Models,
Aussois,France, during September 17-21,1995.
Three-Based Classification of Predictors in Regression-Type ModelsVia Self-Organization: The
GMDH Algorithm (with C.R.Hild);and ACorrelated Evolution Model Using a Multiple Regression
with Phylogenetically Autoregressive Error Components(with H-K.Luh). Invited papers at the
Classification Society of North America's (CSNA's) Annual Conference, University of Colorado,
Denver,Colorado, during June 22-25, 1995.
Informational Complexity Approach to Predictive Regression Models of Future Observations;
and Bayesian Multisample Cluster Analysis of Regression Models in Several Groups Using a New
Informational Compexity Criterion. Invited paper at the Third World Meeting of the International
Society of Bayesian Analysis(ISBA-95),Oaxaca, Mexico,during September 29-30,1995.
Subset Selection of Predictors in Bayesian Regression Model Using a New Informational Complexity
Criterion. Presented at the 5th Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics, Alicante, Spain,
June 5-9,1994.
Bayesian Factor Analysis Model and Choosing the Number of Factors Using a New Informational
Complexity Criterion. Invited paper presented at the Second International Society of Bayesian Analysis
in the Session: Information-theoretic Modeling, Alicante, Spain, June 10-11,1994.
Empirical Econometric Modeling of Food Consumption Using a New Informational
Complexity Approach. World title award winning paper on THE EXPERIMENT IN APPLIED
ECONOMETRICS presented at the Workshop at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands,
December 15-17, 1996.