Scholar
Dennis Pearl
Google Scholar ID: DmXbhZ8AAAAJ
Penn State University
Citations & Impact
Citations
3,678
H-index
28
i10-index
54
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Resume
Academic Achievements
- Fellow of the ASA; Winner of the Evelyn Fix Prize (1985); Sloan Consortium award for effective teaching practice (2006); Director of the Consortium for the Advancement of Undergraduate Statistics Education (CAUSE: www.CAUSEweb.org) since 2002.
Research Experience
- Served as a Research Professor of Statistics at Penn State since 2014. Main research areas are in Statistical Phylogenetics and Statistics Education.
Education
- Ph.D. in Applied Statistics from University of California, Berkeley in 1984; M.A. from UC Berkeley in 1975; A.B. from UC Berkeley in 1972.
Background
- Research interests include Statistics Education and Statistical Phylogenetics. In the field of Statistical Phylogenetics, he focuses on using Bayesian methods to estimate the evolutionary history of a group of organisms.
Miscellany
- Committed to building a national infrastructure to support instructors of statistics, developing resources for instructors in both statistics and probability education, and developing and testing new pedagogical methods.