2007 Hartley Lectures

Edward George received a Ph.D. in Statistics from Stanford University in 1981; a Master's in Applied Mathematics and Statistics from SUNY at Stony Brook in 1976; and an AB in Mathematics from Cornell University, in 1972. He was named full professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Texas at Austin in 1992. From 1997-2001 he was the Ed and Molly Smith Chair in Business Administration. He then moved to the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania where he has been a Universal Furniture Professor since 2002.

George was the Executive Editor Elect of Statistical Science in 2004 and Executive Editor from 2005-2007. He was guest co-editor of Research on Official Statistics in 2001 and guest co-editor of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry in 2006. He is also serving on the Advisory Board for Quantitative Marketing and Economics. He is currently Associate Editor for Statistics Surveys, Bayesian Analysis, and Asia-Pacific Financial Markets and has organized or participated in the organization of 13 conferences.

Among the awards and honors George has received are Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1985, Elected Member of the International Statistics Institute in 1996, and Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1997. He received the Joe D. Beasley Award for Teaching Excellence from the University of Texas, Austin in 1996 and then an Excellence in Education Award in 2001. He was also named ISI Highly Cited Researcher (as of 2004).

George's research includes Hierarchical Modeling; model uncertainty; shrinkage estimation; treed modeling; variable selection; and wavelet regression. He has supervised 10 Ph.D. dissertations, published over 80 articles or discussions and has written 1 book.