Scholar
David Banks
Google Scholar ID: 7fV5Kn0AAAAJ
Duke University
Citations & Impact
Citations
1,606
H-index
22
i10-index
40
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Published over 100 refereed articles, edited eight books, and authored four monographs
- Coordinating Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association
- Co-founded the journal Statistics and Public Policy and served as its editor
- Co-founded the ASA Sections on National Defense and Homeland Security and on Text Analysis; chaired these and also the sections on Risk Analysis and Statistical Learning and Data Mining
- Past President of the Classification Society
- Served twice on the Board of Directors of the American Statistical Association
- President of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Recipient of the American Statistical Association’s Founders Award in 2015
Research Experience
- Visiting Assistant Lecturer at the University of Cambridge in 1986
- Joined the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon University in 1987
- Worked at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in 1997
- Served as Chief Statistician of the U.S. Department of Transportation
- Joined the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in 2002
- Returned to academia at Duke University in 2003
- Led a Data Mining research program at SAMSI in 2003
- Led a research program on Theory and Methods for Complex, High-Dimensional Data at the Isaac Newton Institute in 2008
- Led a Computational Advertising research program at SAMSI in 2012
- Director of SAMSI from 2018 to 2022