Donald A. Darling Professor Emeritus of Statistics; Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Operations Engineering
He/him/
About
Vijay Nair retired from UM in 2017 and is now at Wells Fargo where he is Managing Director and Head of an R&D group that works in quantiative modeling, machine learning, and NLP. His current interests include risk analysis and machine/deep learning. His previous interests included engineering statistics, design and analysis of industrial experiments, reliability analysis, network tomography, and behavioral intervention research.
Courses Taught at UM:
- Statistics 535
- Statistics 570
- IOE 365 (now 265)
- IOE 645
Positions
- Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan (1993-2017)
- Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (1993-2017)
- Chair, Department of Statistics (1998-2010); On sabbatical during 2003-04
- Research Scientist, Bell Laboratories, NJ (1978-1993)
- Assistant Research Officer, Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia (1972-73)
- President, International Statistical Institute (2013-2015)
- President, International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (2011-13)
Professional Societies
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association
- Fellow of the American Society for Quality
- Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
