Scholar
Christopher K. Wikle
Google Scholar ID: RfIniooAAAAJ
Curators' Distinguished Professor of Statistics, University of Missouri
Citations & Impact
Citations
6,194
H-index
34
i10-index
103
Publications
20
Co-authors
0
Publications
Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), elected Fellow of the International Statistical Institute (ISI), Distinguished Alumni Award from the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Iowa State University, ASA Environmental (ENVR) Section Distinguished Achievement Award, co-awardee 2017 ASA Statistical Partnership Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award, the MU Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences, the Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, and Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award. His book 'Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data' (co-authored with Noel Cressie) was the 2011 PROSE Award winner for excellence in the Mathematics Category by the Association of American Publishers and the 2013 DeGroot Prize winner from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. His latest book, 'Spatio-Temporal Statistics with R', with Andrew Zammit-Mangion and Noel Cressie, was published in 2019 and won the 2019 Taylor and Francis award for Outstanding Reference/Monograph in the Science and Medicine category.
Research Experience
- Research fellow at the National Center for Atmospheric Research from 1996-1998, after which he joined the MU Department of Statistics.
Education
- Received a PhD co-major in Statistics and Atmospheric Science in 1996 from Iowa State University.
Background
- Curators' Distinguished Professor of Statistics at the University of Missouri (MU), with additional appointments in Soil, Environmental and Atmospheric Sciences and the Truman School of Public Affairs. He is also the inaugural director of the Center for Spatio-Temporal Statistics and AI at MU. His research interests are in spatial and spatio-temporal statistics applied to environmental, ecological, geophysical, agricultural and federal survey applications, with particular interest in dynamics.
Miscellany
- Email: wiklec@missouri.edu; Phone: 573-882-9659; Office: Mail: 146 Middlebush Hall, Physical: 134c Middlebush Hall, Columbia, Missouri 65211
Co-authors