David Madigan

David Madigan
Executive Vice-President of Arts and Sciences, Columbia University
Assumed office
September 1, 2013
Preceded by Nicholas B. Dirks
Personal details
Born (1962-12-11) December 11, 1962
Athlone, Ireland
Spouse(s) Áine Madigan
Children Cian, Orna, and Rory
Alma mater Trinity College Dublin
Profession Statistician, Professor
Website www.stat.columbia.edu/~madigan

David Bennett Madigan (born December 11, 1962) is an Irish and American statistician and an academic.[1] He is currently the Executive Vice-President for Arts & Sciences, Dean of the Faculty,[2] and Professor of Statistics[3] at Columbia University in the City of New York. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Statistics at Columbia University (2008-2013), Dean, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Rutgers University (2005-2007), Director, Institute of Biostatistics, Rutgers University (2003-2004), and Professor, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University (2001-2007).

Professional life

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.[4] 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),[5] a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2006),[6] and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1999).[7] He served as Editor-in-Chief of Statistical Science, 2008-2010,[8] and as Editor-in-Chief of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, the ASA Data Science Journal, 2013-2015.

Scholarship

He has over 150 publications in such areas as Bayesian statistics, text mining, Monte Carlo methods, pharmacovigilance and probabilistic graphical models.

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.

References

  1. ↑ Diaz, Lauren (2013-10-01). "At Arts and Sciences helm, Madigan plans for collaboration - Columbia Daily Spectator". Columbiaspectator.com. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  2. ↑ "Welcome message from the Executive Vice President | Faculty of Arts and Sciences". Fas.columbia.edu. Retrieved 2015-11-20.
  3. ↑ "David Madigan » Department Directory".
  4. ↑ "Distinguished Teaching Award Previous award recipients". www.washington.edu. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  5. ↑ "International Statistical Institute Members". www.isi-web.org. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  6. ↑ "Institute of Mathematical Statistics Honored Fellows". www.imstat.org. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  7. ↑ "American Statistical Association Fellows". www.amstat.org. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
  8. ↑ "IMS Journals Past Editors". www.imstat.org. Retrieved 2016-02-18.
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