Curriculum Vitae
Philip Bradford Stark

Biographical Information

• Born: 7 October 1960, Houston, Texas.
• Citizenship: U.S.A.

Interests

• Theory: Inference, inverse problems, multiplicity, nonparametrics, optimization, restricted parameters, sampling
• Applications: Astrophysics, ecology, educational technology, elections, geophysics, hearing, legislation, litigation, marketing, physics, public policy, risk assessment and control, uncertainty quantification

Appointments

• 7/2012–present Chair, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
• 7/2011–6/2012 Vice Chair, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
• 7/2011–8/2011 Acting Chair, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
• 7/2008–present Faculty, Designated Emphasis in Computational Science and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley
• 7/1998–present Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
• 7/2001–6/2003 Faculty Assistant in Educational Technology (to Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education), University of California, Berkeley
• 6/1996 Visiting Associate Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
• 7/1994–6/1998 Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
• 7/1988–6/1994 Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
• 7/1987–6/1990 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematical Sciences
• 1/1987–6/1987 Postgraduate Research, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
• 8/1986–12/1986 Postgraduate Research, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UC San Diego

Awards and Fellowships

• Chancellor’s Award for Public Service, Research in the Public Interest, University of California, Berkeley (2011)
• John Gideon Award for Election Integrity, Election Verification Network (2011)
• Mellon Library/Faculty Fellow for Undergraduate Research (2006–2007)
• Presidential Chair Fellow, University of California, Berkeley (2003–2004)
• Fellow, Institute of Physics (elected 1999)
• Miller Research Professor, Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science (1999)
• Dobson Fellow, University of California at Berkeley (1998, 1999)
• Presidential Young Investigator (1989–1995)
• National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship in Mathematical Sciences (1987–1989)
• University Fellowship, University of Texas at Austin (1982–1983)

Societies and Affiliations

• Member and Accredited Professional Statistician, American Statistical Association
• Bernoulli Society for Mathematical Statistics and Probability
• Center for Data Analysis Technology and Applications (DATA)
• Center for Astrostatistics (Penn State)
• Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG)
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• Fellow and Chartered Physicist, Institute of Physics
• International Statistical Institute
• National Partnership for Advanced Computational Infrastructure (NPACI)
• Royal Astronomical Society
• Society for Empirical Legal Studies
• Solar and Heliospheric Observatory Solar Oscillations Investigation (SOHO-SOI)
• Space Sciences Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley
• Theoretical Astrophysics Center, University of California, Berkeley

Education

• A.B. 1980, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
• Ph.D. 1986, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, California

Mentors

• Robert L. Parker, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (PhD dissertation advisor)
• George E. Backus, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego (postdoctoral advisor)
• David L. Donoho, Department of Statistics, Stanford University (postdoctoral advisor)

Publications

Refereed Publications

1. Stark, P.B. and C. Frohlich, 1985. The depths of the deepest deep Earthquakes, Journal of Geophysical Research, 90, 1859–1869.
2. Stark, P.B., R.L. Parker, G. Masters, and J.A. Orcutt, 1986. Strict bounds on seismic velocity in the spherical Earth, Journal of Geophysical Research, 91, 13,892–13,902.
3. Stark, P.B., 1986. Travel-Time Inversion: Regularization and Inference, Ph.D. Thesis, Scripps Instution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 106pp.
4. Stark, P.B., and R.L. Parker, 1987. Smooth profiles from tau(p) and X(p) data, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 89, 2713–2719.
5. Stark, P.B., and R.L. Parker, 1987. Velocity bounds from statistical estimates of tau(p) and X(p), Journal of Geophysical Research, 92, 2713–2719.
6. Stark, P.B., 1987. Rigorous velocity bounds from soft tau(p) and X(p) data, Geophysical Journal of the Royal Astronomical Society, 89, 987–996.
7. Orcutt, J.A., R.L. Parker, P.B. Stark, and J.D. Garmany, 1988. Comment concerning “A method of obtaining a velocity-depth envelope from wide-angle seismic data” by R. Mithal and J.B. Diebold. Geophysical Journal, 95, 209–212.
8. Stark, P.B. and R.L. Parker, 1988. Correction to “Velocity bounds from statistical estimates of tau(p) and X(p).” Journal of Geophysical Research, 93, 13,821–13,822.
9. Donoho, D.L. and P.B. Stark, 1989. Uncertainty principles and signal recovery. SIAM Journal of Applied Mathematics, 49, 906–931.
10. Stark, P.B., 1992. Affine minimax confidence intervals for a bounded Normal mean, Statistics and Probability Letters, 13, 39–44.
11. Stark, P.B., 1992. Minimax confidence intervals in geomagnetism, Geophysical Journal International, 108, 329–338.
12. Stark, P.B., 1992. Inference in infinite-dimensional inverse problems: Discretization and duality, Journal of Geophysical Research, 97, 14,055–14,082. Reprint:
    http://www.agu.org/journals/jb/v097/iB10/92JB00739/92JB00739.pdf
13. Donoho, D.L. and P.B. Stark, 1993. A note on rearrangements, spectral concentration, and the zero-order prolate spheroidal wavefunction. IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 39, 257–260.
14. Pulliam, R.J. and P.B. Stark, 1993. Bumps on the core-mantle boundary: Are they facts or artifacts?, Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 1943–1956.
15. Stark, P.B. and N.W. Hengartner, 1993. Reproducing Earth’s kernel: Uncertainty of the shape of the core-mantle boundary from PKP and PcP travel-times, Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 1957–1972.
16. Stark, P.B., 1993. Uncertainty of the COBE quadrupole detection, Astrophysical Journal Letters, 408, L73–L76.
17. Stark, P.B. and D.I. Nikolayev, 1993. Toward tubular tomography, Journal of Geophysical Research, 98, 8095–8106.
18. Constable, C.G., R.L. Parker, and P.B. Stark, 1993. Geomagnetic field models incorporating frozen-flux constraints, Geophysical Journal International, 113, 419–433.
19. Gough, D.O. and P.B. Stark, 1993. Are the 1986–1988 changes in solar free-oscillation frequency splitting significant?, Astrophysical Journal, 415, 376–382.
20. Stark, P.B., M.M. Herron, and A. Matteson, 1993. Empirically minimax affine mineralogy estimates from Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy data using a decimated wavelet basis, Applied Spectroscopy, 47, 1820–1829.
21. Pulliam, R.J. and P.B. Stark, 1994. Confidence regions for mantle heterogeneity, Journal of Geophysical Research, 99, 6931–6943.
22. Genovese, C.R., P.B. Stark, and M.J. Thompson, 1995. Uncertainties for Two-Dimensional Models of Solar Rotation from Helioseismic Eigenfrequency Splitting, Astrophysical Journal, 443, 843–854.
23. Stark, P.B. and R.L. Parker, 1995. Bounded-variable least-squares: an algorithm and applications, Computational Statistics, 10, 129–141. Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/Preprints/bvls.pdf
24. Hengartner, N.W. and P.B. Stark, 1995. Finite-sample confidence envelopes for shape-restricted densities, The Annals of Statistics, 23, 525–550.
25. Stark, P.B., 1995. Reply to Comment by Morelli and Dziewonski, Journal of Geophysical Research, 100, 15,399–15,402.
26. Gough, D.O., T. Sekii, and P.B. Stark, 1996. Inferring spatial variation of solar properties from helioseismic data, Astrophysical Journal, 459, 779–791.
27. Benjamini, Y. and Stark, P.B., 1996. Non-equivariant simultaneous confidence intervals less likely to contain zero, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 91, 329–337.
28. Hill, F., P.B. Stark, R.T. Stebbins, E.R. Anderson, H.M. Antia, T.M. Brown, T.L. Duvall, Jr., D.A. Haber, J.W. Harvey, D.H. Hathaway, R. Howe, R. Hubbard, H.P. Jones, J.R. Kennedy, S.G. Korzennik, A.G. Kosovichev, J.W. Leibacher, K.G. Libbrecht, J.A. Pintar, E.J. Rhodes, Jr., J. Schou, M.J. Thompson, S. Tomczyk, C.G. Toner, R. Toussaint, and W.E. Williams, 1996. The solar acoustic spectrum and eigenmode parameters, Science, 272, 1292–1295.
29. Thompson, M.J., J. Toomre, E.R. Anderson, H.M. Antia, G. Berthomieu, D. Burtonclay, S.M. Chitre, J. Christensen-Dalsgaard, T. Corbard, M. DeRosa, C.R. Genovese, D.O. Gough, D.A. Haber, J.W. Harvey, F. Hill, R. Howe, S.G. Korzennik, A.G. Kosovichev, J.W. Leibacher, F.P. Pijpers, J. Provost, E.J. Rhodes, Jr., J. Schou, T. Sekii, P.B. Stark, and P.R. Wilson, 1996. Differential rotation and dynamics of the solar interior, Science, 272, 1300–1305.
30. Stark, P.B., 1996. A few considerations for ascribing statistical significance to earthquake predictions, Geophysical Research Letters, 23, 1399–1402.
31. Evans, S.N., and P.B. Stark, 1996. Shrinkage estimators, Skorokhod’s problem, and stochastic integration by parts, The Annals of Statistics, 24, 809–815.
32. Genovese, C.R. and P.B. Stark, 1996. Data Reduction and Statistical Consistency in Linear Inverse Problems, Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors, 98, 143–162.
33. Stark, P.B., 1997. Earthquake prediction: the null hypothesis, Geophysical Journal International, 131, 495–499.
34. Benjamini, Y., Y. Hochberg, and P.B. Stark, 1998. Confidence Intervals with more Power to determine the Sign: Two Ends constrain the Means, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93, 309–317.
35. Tenorio, L., P.B. Stark, and C.H. Lineweaver, 1999. Bigger uncertainties and the Big Bang, Inverse Problems, 15, 329–341.
36. Stark, P.B., 1999. Geophysics, Statistics in, in Encyclopedia of Statistical Sciences, Update Volume 3, S. Kotz, C.B. Read, and D.L. Banks, eds., John Wiley and Sons, NY. Invited. Reprint:
    http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9780471667193/ess/article/ess1053/current/pdf
37. Komm, R., Y. Gu, P.B. Stark, and I. Fodor, 1999. Multitaper Spectral Analysis and Wavelet Denoising Applied to Helioseismic Data, Astrophysical Journal, 519, 407–421.
38. Freedman, D.A., and P.B. Stark, 1999. The swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome: a case study in relative risk and specific causation, Evaluation Review, 23, 619–647. Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ census/546.pdf
39. Fodor, I. and P.B. Stark, 2000. Multitaper Spectrum Estimation for Time Series with Gaps, IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing, 48, 3472–3483.
40. Freedman, D.A., P.B. Stark, and K.W. Wachter, 2001. A probability model for census adjustment, Mathematical Population Studies, 9, 165–180.
41. D.A. Freedman and P.B. Stark, 2001. The swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Law and Contemporary Problems, 64, 49–62. Reprint:
    http://www.law.duke.edu/shell/cite.pl?64+Law+&+Contemp.+Probs.+49+(Autumn+2001)
42. Evans, S.N. and P.B. Stark, 2002. Inverse Problems as Statistics, Inverse Problems, 18, R55–R97. Invited. Reprint:
    http://iopscience.iop.org/0266-5611/18/4/201/pdf/0266-5611_18_4_201.pdf
43. Stark, P.B. and D.A. Freedman, 2003. What is the Chance of an Earthquake? in Earthquake Science and Seismic Risk Reduction, F. Mulargia and R.J. Geller, eds., NATO Science Series IV: Earth and Environmental Sciences, v. 32, Kluwer, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 201–213. Invited. Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/611.pdf
44. Stark, P.B., 2003. Capture-recapture. Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA. Invited. Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/capt2002.pdf
45. Stark, P.B., 2003. Census Adjustment. Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA. Invited. Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/adj2002.pdf
46. Schafer, C.M. and P.B. Stark, 2004. Using what we know: inference with physical constraints. Proceedings of the Conference on Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology PHYSTAT2003, L. Lyons, R. Mount and R. Reitmeyer, eds., Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Menlo Park, CA, 25–34.
47. Evans, S.N., B. Hansen, and P.B. Stark, 2005. Minimax Expected Measure Confidence Sets for Restricted Location Parameters, Bernoulli, 11, 571–590. Also Tech. Rept. 617, Dept. Statistics Univ. Calif Berkeley (May 2002, revised May 2003). Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/617.pdf
48. Divenyi, P., P.B. Stark, and K. Haupt, 2005. Decline of Speech Understanding and Auditory Thresholds in the Elderly, Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 118, 1089–1100.
49. Freedman, D.A. and P.B. Stark, 2007. Ecological Inference, in 1 Encyclopedia of Law and Society: American and Global Perspectives, 447–448, David S. Clark, ed., Sage Publications. Invited. Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/ecoInf07.txt
50. Luen, B. and P.B. Stark, 2008. Testing Earthquake Predictions. IMS Lecture Notes—Monograph Series. Probability and Statistics: Essays in Honor of David A. Freedman, 302–315. Institute for Mathematical Statistics Press, Beachwood, OH. Invited. Reprint:
    http://arxiv.org/abs/0805.3032
51. Stark, P.B., 2008. The effectiveness of Internet content filters, I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, 4, 411–429.
    Reprint: http://www.is-journal.org/V04I02/Stark.pdf
    Preprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/filter07.pdf
52. Stark, P.B., 2008. Conservative statistical post-election audits, The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2, 550–581. Reprint:
    http://arxiv.org/abs/0807.4005
53. Stark, P.B., 2008. A Sharper Discrepancy Measure for Post-Election Audits, The Annals of Applied Statistics, 2, 2008, 982–985. Reprint:
    http://arxiv.org/abs/0811.1697
54. Stark, P.B., 2008. Generalizing resolution, Inverse Problems, 24, 034014. Invited; selected for 2008 Highlights for Inverse Problems Reprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/resolution07.pdf
55. Schafer, C.M., and P.B. Stark, 2009. Constructing Confidence Sets of Optimal Expected Size. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104, 1080–1089. Reprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/schaferStark09.pdf
56. Berlow, E.L., J.A. Dunne, N.D. Martinez, P.B. Stark, R.J. Williams and U. Brose, 2009. Simplicity on the other side of ecological complexity. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106, 187–219. Reprint:
    http://www.pnas.org/content/106/1/187.full.pdf+html
57. Hall, J.L., L.W. Miratrix, P.B. Stark, M. Briones, E. Ginnold, F. Oakley, M. Peaden, G. Pellerin, T. Stanionis and T. Webber, 2009. Implementing Risk-Limiting Audits in California, 2009 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE ’09). Reprint:
    http://static.usenix.org/events/evtwote09/tech/full_papers/hall.pdf.
    SSRN’s Top Ten download list for ERN: Models of Political Processes: Rent-Seeking, Elections, Legislatures, & Voting Behavior
58. Stark, P.B., 2009. CAST: Canvass Audits by Sampling and Testing. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security: Special Issue on Electronic Voting, 4, 708–717. Reprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/cast09.pdf
59. Miratrix, L.W. and P.B. Stark, 2009. Election Audits using a Trinomial Bound. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security: Special Issue on Electronic Voting, 4, 974–981. Reprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/trinomial09.pdf
60. Stark, P.B., 2009. Risk-limiting post-election audits: P-values from common probability inequalities. IEEE Transactions on Information Forensics and Security: Special Issue on Electronic Voting, 4, 1005–1014. Reprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/pvalues09.pdf
61. Stark, P.B., 2009. Efficient post-election audits of multiple contests: 2009 California tests. Refereed paper presented at the 2009 Conference on Empirical Legal Studies. Preprint:
    http://ssrn.com/abstract=1443314
62. Stark, P.B., 2010. Risk-Limiting Vote-Tabulation Audits: The Importance of Cluster Size. Chance, 23(3), 9–12. Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/auditingChance10.pdf
63. Stark, P.B., 2010. Super-simple simultaneous single-ballot risk-limiting audits. 2010 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE ’10), D. Jones, J.J. Quisquater and E.K. Rescorla, eds. Reprint:
    http://www.usenix.org/events/evtwote10/tech/full_papers/Stark.pdf
64. Stark, P.B. and L. Tenorio, 2010. A Primer of Frequentist and Bayesian Inference in Inverse Problems. In Large Scale Inverse Problems and Quantification of Uncertainty, Biegler, L., G. Biros, O. Ghattas, M. Heinkenschloss, D. Keyes, B. Mallick, L. Tenorio, B. van Bloemen Waanders and K. Willcox, eds. John Wiley and Sons, NY. Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/freqBayes09.pdf
65. Stark, P.B., 2010. Null and Vetoed: “Chance Coincidence”? Chance, 23(4), 43–46. Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/acrosticVeto09.htm
66. Benaloh, J., D. Jones, E. Lazarus, M. Lindeman, and P.B. Stark, 2011. SOBA: Secrecy-preserving Observable Ballot-level Audit. 2011 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE ’11). Reprint:
    http://static.usenix.org/events/evtwote11/tech/final_files/Benaloh.pdf
    Video: https://www.usenix.org/conference/evtwote-11/soba-secrecy-preserving-observable-ballot-level-audit
67. Higgins, M.J., R.L. Rivest and P.B. Stark, 2011. Sharper p-values for Stratified Post-Election Audits. Statistics, Politics, and Policy, 2(1), Article 7. Reprint:
    http://www.bepress.com/spp/vol2/iss1/7
68. Shearer, P.M. and P.B. Stark, 2012. The global risk of big earthquakes has not recently increased. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 109(3), 717–721. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1118525109. (Commentary by G. Beroza, PNAS 2012, 109(3) 651–652. doi: 10.1073/pnas.1120744109.) Reprint:
    http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2011/12/12/1118525109.full.pdf+html
69. Luen, B. and P.B. Stark, 2012. Poisson tests of declustered catalogs. Geophysical Journal International, 189, 691–700. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05400.x
    Reprint:
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1365-246X.2012.05400.x/pdf
    Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/decluster11.pdf
70. Lindeman, M., P.B. Stark, and V.S. Yates, 2012. BRAVO: Ballot-polling Risk-Limiting Audits to Verify Outcomes. 2012 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE ’12). Reprint:
    https://www.usenix.org/system/files/conference/evtwote12/evtwote12-final27.pdf
71. Huttunen, J.M.J., and P.B. Stark, 2012. Cheap contouring of costly functions: The Pilot Approximation Trajectory Algorithm. Computational Science & Discovery. 5, 015006. Reprint:
    http://stacks.iop.org/1749-4699/5/015006
72. Lindeman, M. and P.B. Stark, 2012. A Gentle Introduction to Risk-Limiting Audits. IEEE Security and Privacy, 10, 42–49. Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/gentle12.pdf
73. Stark, P.B., and D.A. Wagner, 2012. Evidence-Based Elections. IEEE Security and Privacy, 10, 33–41. Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/evidenceVote12.pdf
74. Benjamini, Y., V. Madar, and P.B. Stark, 2013. Simultaneous confidence intervals uniformly more likely to determine signs, Biometrika, doi: 10.1093/biomet/ass074
    Reprint: http://biomet.oxfordjournals.org/content/early/2013/02/20/biomet.ass074.full.pdf
    Preprint: http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/qc11.pdf

    Papers submitted for publication

75. Regier, J.C. and P.B. Stark, 2013, Uncertainty Quantification for Emulators. Submitted to SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification. Preprint:
    http://arxiv.org/abs/1303.3079
76. Stark, P.B., 2013. Constraints versus priors. Submitted to SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification. Preprint:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/constraintsPriors12.pdf

    Books and Edited Volumes

77. Stark, P.B., 1997. SticiGui: Statistics Tools for Internet and Classroom Instruction with a Graphical User Interface.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/SticiGui
78. Freedman, D.A., 2009. Statistical Models and Causal Inference: A Dialog with the Social Sciences, D. Collier, J.S. Sekhon and P.B. Stark, eds., Cambridge University Press, New York.

    Technical Reports, White Papers, and Unrefereed Publications

79. Stark, P.B., 1988. Strict bounds and applications. in Some Topics on Inverse Problems, P.C. Sabatier, ed., World Scientific, Singapore.
80. Donoho, D.L. and P.B. Stark, 1988. Rearrangements and Smoothing, Tech. Rept. 148, Dept. Stat., Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
81. Donoho, D.L. and P.B. Stark, 1989. Recovery of a Sparse Signal When the Low Frequency Information is Missing, Tech. Rept. 179, Dept. Statistics, Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
82. Stark, P.B., 1990. Rigorous computer solutions to infinite-dimensional inverse problems. in Inverse Methods in Action, P.C. Sabatier, ed., Springer-Verlag. 462–467.
83. Hengartner, N.W. and P.B. Stark, 1992. Conservative finite-sample confidence envelopes for monotone and unimodal densities, Tech. Rept. 341, Dept. Statistics, Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
84. Hengartner, N.W. and P.B. Stark, 1992. Confidence bounds on the probability density of aftershocks, Tech. Rept. 352, Dept. Statistics, Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
85. Stark, P.B., 1992. The Cosmic Microwave Background and Earth’s Core-Mantle Boundary: A Tale of Two CMB’s, Tech. Rept. 371, Dept. Statistics, Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
86. Genovese, C. and P.B. Stark, 1993. l₁ spectral estimation: Algorithms and tests of super-resolution, in GONG 1992: Seismic Investigations of the Sun and Stars, Proc. Astr. Soc. Pac. Conf. Ser., 42, T. Brown, ed., 453–456.
87. Gough, D.O. and P.B. Stark, 1993. The significance of changes in solar free-oscillation splitting from 1986–1990, in GONG 1992: Seismic Investigations of the Sun and Stars, Proc. Astr. Soc. Pac. Conf. Ser., 42, T. Brown, ed., 221–224.
88. Stark, P.B., 1994. Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Linear Estimates of Linear Functionals, Tech. Rept. 417, Dept. Statistics, Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
89. Sekii, T., C.R. Genovese, D.O. Gough, and P.B. Stark, 1995. Observational constraints on the internal solar angular velocity, in Fourth SOHO Workshop: Helioseismology, J.T. Hoeksema, V. Domingo, B. Fleck and B. Battrick, eds., ESA Publications Division SP-376, Noordwijk, Volume 2, 279–283.
90. Stark, P.B., 1997. Data Sampling Rate Reduction for the OERSTED Geomagnetic Satellite.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/Oersted/writeup.htm
91. Fodor, I.K., J.G. Berryman, and P.B. Stark, 1997. Comparison of Autoregressive and Multitaper Spectral Analysis for Long Time Series, Stanford Exploration Project, 95, 331–355.
92. Borrill, J., and P.B. Stark, 1998. A fast method for bounding the CMB power spectrum likelihood function.
93. Komm, R.W., Y. Gu, F. Hill, P.B. Stark, and I.K. Fodor, 1998. Multitaper Spectral Analysis and Wavelet Denoising Applied to Helioseismic Data, Proc. Tenth Cambridge Workshop on Cool Stars, Stellar Systems and the Sun, ASP Conference Series, 154, CDR 783–790.
94. Komm, R.W., E. Anderson, F. Hill, R. Howe, A.G. Kosovichev, P.H. Scherrer, J. Schou, I. Fodor, and P. Stark, 1998. Comparison of SOHO-SOI/MDI and GONG Spectra, Proceedings of the SOHO 6/GONG 98 Workshop, ’Structure and Dynamics of the Interior of the Sun and Sun-like Stars,’ Boston, USA, 1–4 June 1998, ESA SP-418, 253–256.
95. Komm, R.W., E. Anderson, F. Hill, R. Howe, I. Fodor, and P. Stark, 1998. Multitaper analysis applied to a 3-month time series, Proceedings of the SOHO 6/GONG 98 Workshop, ’Structure and Dynamics of the Interior of the Sun and Sun-like Stars,’ Boston, USA, 1–4 June 1998, ESA SP–418, 257–260.
96. Fodor, I.K. and P.B. Stark, 1999. Multitaper Spectrum Estimates for Time Series with Missing Values, Computing Science and Statistics, 31: Models, Predictions, and Computing. K. Berk and M. Pourahmadi, eds., 383–387.
97. Stark, P.B., 1999.The 1990 and 2000 Census Adjustment Plans, Tech. Rept. 550, Dept. Statistics, Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Census/550.pdf (revised May 2000)
98. Stark, P.B., 2000. Inverse Problems as Statistics, in Surveys on Solution Methods for Inverse Problems, Colton, D., H.W. Engl, A.K. Louis, J.R. Mclaughlin and W. Rundell, eds., Springer-Verlag, New York, 253–275. Invited.
99. Stark, P.B., 2004. Estimating power spectra of galactic structure: can Statistics help?, in Penetrating Bars Through Masks of Cosmic Dust: The Hubble Tuning Fork Strikes a New Note, D.L. Block, I. Puerari, K.C. Freeman, R. Groess and E.K. Block, eds., Springer, The Netherlands, 613–617. Invited.
100. Schafer, C.M. and P.B. Stark, 2006. Constructing Confidence Sets of Optimal Expected Size. Technical report 836, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University.
     http://www.stat.cmu.edu/tr/tr836/tr836.html
101. Jefferson, D., K. Alexander, E. Ginnold, A. Lehmkuhl, K. Midstokke and P.B. Stark, 2007. Post Election Audit Standards Report—Evaluation of Audit Sampling Models and Options for Strengthening California’s Manual Count.
     http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/peas/final_peaswg_report.pdf
102. Stark, P.B., 2009. Auditing a collection of races simultaneously.
     http://arxiv.org/abs/0905.1422v1
103. Stark, P.B., 2009. The status and near future of post-election auditing.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/auditingPosition09.htm
104. Stark, P.B., 2010. Why small audit batches are more efficient: two heuristic explanations.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/smallBatchHeuristics10.htm
105. Higdon, D., R. Klein, M. Anderson, M. Berliner, C. Covey, O. Ghattas, C. Graziani, S. Habib, M. Seager, J. Sefcik, P. Stark, and J. Stewart, 2010. Panel Report on Uncertainty Quantification and Error Analysis, in Scientific Grand Challenges in National Security: The Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale, U.S. Department of Energy Office of Advanced Scientific Computing Research and National Nuclear Security Administration.
     http://science.energy.gov/ /media/ascr/pdf/program-documents/docs/Nnsa_grand_challenges_report.pdf
106. McLaughlin, K., and P.B. Stark, 2011. Workload Estimates for Risk-Limiting Audits of Large Contests.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/workload11.pdf
107. Scott, L.R., J. Brown, G.W. Bergantz, D. Cooley, C. Dawson, M. de Hoop, D. Estep, N. Flyer, E. Foufoula-Georgiou, M. Ghil, M. Knepley, R.J. LeVeque, L.-H. Lim, G. Papanicolaou, S. Prudhomme, A. Sandu, G. Schubert, F.J. Simons, P.B. Stark, M. Stein, S. Stein, T. Tanimoto, D. Tartakovsky, J. Weare, R. Weiss, G.B. Wright, and D. Yuen, 2012. Fostering Interactions Between the Geosciences and Mathematics, Statistics, and Computer Science. Technical Report TR-2012-02, Department of Computer Science, The University of Chicago.
     https://www.cs.uchicago.edu/research/publications/techreports/TR-2012-02
108. Bañuelos, J.H. and P.B. Stark, 2012. Limiting Risk by Turning Manifest Phantoms into Evil Zombies.
     http://arxiv.org/abs/1207.3413
109. Bretschneider, J., S. Flaherty, S. Goodman, M. Halvorson, R. Johnston, M. Lindeman, R.L. Rivest, P. Smith, and P.B. Stark, 2012. Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits: Why and How.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/RLAwhitepaper12.pdf
     Endorsement by the American Statistical Association:
     http://www.amstat.org/policy/pdfs/StarkEtAlLetterOfSupport.pdf
110. Stark, P.B., 2012. Ballot-Polling Audits in Two Pages (±1).
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/bpa2pp.pdf
111. Benaloh, J., M. Byrne, P. Kortum, N. McBurnett, O. Pereira, P.B. Stark, and D.S. Wallach, 2012. STAR-Vote: A Secure, Transparent, Auditable, and Reliable Voting System. Preprint:
     http://arxiv.org/abs/1211.1904
112. Lindeman, M., R.L. Rivest, and P.B. Stark, 2013. Machine Retabulation is not Auditing. Preprint:
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/retabNotAudit13.pdf
113. Lindeman, M., R.L. Rivest, and P.B. Stark, 2013. Retabulations, Machine-Assisted Audits, and Election Verification. Preprint:
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/retabulation13.htm

     Editorials, Reviews, and Comments

114. Stark, P.B., 2001. Review of Who Counts? by Margo J. Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg, Journal of Economic Literature, XXXIX, 593–595. Invited.
115. Tenorio, L., E. Haber, P.B. Stark, D. Cox, O. Ghattas and W.W. Symes, 2008. Guest editors’ introduction to the special section on statistical and computational issues in inverse problems, Inverse problems, 24, 034001. Reprint:
     http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0266-5611/24/3/034001/ip8_3_034001.pdf
116. Stark, P.B., 2008. Obituary: David A. Freedman, IMS Bulletin, 38, 10–11. Preprint:
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/dafObituary.htm
117. Collier, D., J.S. Sekhon and P.B. Stark, 2009. Preface to David A. Freedman, 2009. Statistical Models: Theory and Practice, Revised edition, Cambridge University Press, New York.
118. Ash, A., S. Pierson and P.B. Stark, 2009. Thinking outside the urn: Statisticians make their marks on U.S. Ballots. Amstat News, 384. 37–40. Reprint:
     http://www.amstat.org/outreach/pdfs/SP_ANJun09.pdf

     Other Publications

119. Testimony before U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census, 5 May 1998.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Census/house-5-5-98-pbs.pdf
120. Response to 25 Questions from Representative C. Maloney, Ranking Minority Member, U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census, 13 May 1998.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Census/maloney-5-13-98-pbs.pdf
121. Stark, P.B., 1999. Letter to the Editor of USA Today regarding Sampling to Adjust the 2000 Census, 19 January. (original version:
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Census/usaOpEd99.htm)
122. Audit working group, 2009. Data requirements for vote-tabulation audits: Statement to NIST, ElectionAudits.org.
     http://electionaudits.org/niststatement
123. Hall, J.L., P.B. Stark, H.E. Brady, and J.S. Sekhon, 2009. Comments on the CA SoS’ Precinct Level Data Pilot Project.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/CACountyData09.pdf
124. Testimony before California State Assembly Committee on Elections and Redistricting, 20 April 2010.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/ab2023-assembly-20-4-10.htm
125. Testimony before California State Senate Committee on Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments, 15 June 2010.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/ab2023-senate-15-6-10.htm
126. Testimony proffered to Judge Ira Warshawsky, New York Supreme Court, 4 December 2010.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/nysd7-4-12-10.htm
127. Letter to President Barack Obama re election technology, 6 December 2012 (with Barbara Simons and 48 others).
     http://www.verifiedvoting.org/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/PresidentLetter.pdf

     Working Drafts

128. Stark, P.B., 2011. Audits Conducted Under California AB 2023 in 2011. Working draft.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/ab2023_2011.pdf

Software

1. Stark, P.B., and R.L. Parker, 1994. BVLS (Bounded-Variable Least Squares), STATLIB (Carnegie-Mellon University ftp server)
   http://lib.stat.cmu.edu/general/bvls
2. Java Applets for Statistics
   http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Java/Html/index.htm
3. Tools for election audits
   http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Vote/auditTools.htm
4. Miscellaneous software:
   http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Code

Selected Presentations

1. Leveraging Paper Ballots, “Running Elections Efficiently, A Best Practices Convening,” Common Cause – Common Cause / NY – Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University, New York, NY, 20 May 2013.
   http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ccNY13.pdf
2. Uncertainty quantification for emulators, University of California, Los Angeles, 11 April 2013.
   http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/emulatorUCLA13.pdf
3. Brittle and Resilient Verifiable Voting Systems, “Verifiable Voting Schemes Workshop: from Theory to Practice,” Interdisciplinary Centre for Security, Reliability and Trust, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg 21–22 March 2013.
   http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/vv13.pdf
4. Now What?, Election Verification Network Annual Conference, “The Right to a Secure, Transparent and Accurate Election,” Atlanta, Georgia 14–15 March 2013.
   http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/evn13nowWhat.pdf
5. Machine-Assisted Transitive Audits, Election Verification Network Annual Conference, “The Right to a Secure, Transparent and Accurate Election,” Atlanta, Georgia 14–15 March 2013.
6. Risk-limiting Audits and Evidence-Based Elections in a Nutshell, Election Verification Network Annual Conference, “The Right to a Secure, Transparent and Accurate Election,” Atlanta, Georgia 14–15 March 2013.
   http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/evn13nutshell.pdf
7. Reproducibility in Computational and Experimental Mathematics, ICERM, Brown University, Providence, RI, 10–14 December 2012.
   http://icerm.brown.edu/tw12-5-rcem
8. Whaddya know? Bayesian and Frequentist approaches to inverse problems, Inverse Problems: Practical Applications and Advanced Analysis, Schlumberger WesternGeco, Houston, TX, 12–15 November 2012.
   http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/swg12.pdf
9. Evidence-Based Elections, E-Voting: Risk and Opportunity Conference, Center for Information Technology Policy, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ, 1 November 2012.
   http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/princeton12.pdf
   Video: http://youtu.be/1Z6JW1t_sFI
10. Evidence-Based Elections, Berkeley/Stanford Data, Society and Inference Seminar, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 8 October 2012.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/dataSocietyInference12.pdf
11. Voting Technology Exploratory Meeting, The Pew Charitable Trusts Center on the States, Santa Monica, CA 23–24 August 2012.
12. Lightning Debates, Workshop on Electronic Voting Technology / Workshop on Transparent Elections, (EVT/WOTE ’12), USENIX, Bellevue, WA, 6–7 August 2012.
    Video: https://www.usenix.org/conference/evtwote12/panel-2-title-tbd
13. BRAVO: Ballot-polling Risk-limiting Audits to Verify Outcomes, Workshop on Electronic Voting Technology / Workshop on Transparent Elections, (EVT/WOTE ’12), USENIX, Bellevue, WA, 6–7 August 2012.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/evt12.pdf
    Video: https://www.usenix.org/conference/evtwote12/s6-paper-title-tbd
14. The Will of the People and the Luck of the Draw: Using Statistics to Limit the Risk of Wrong Electoral Outcomes, Joint Statistical Meetings, San Diego, CA, 29 July 2012.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/jsm12.pdf
15. Evidence-Based Elections, Risk-Limiting Audits, and Resilient Canvass Frameworks, SecVote 2012 Summer School on Secure Voting, Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, Schloss Dagstuhl, Germany, 16 July 2012.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/dagstuhl12.pdf
16. The Effectiveness of Internet Content Filters, Distinguished Lecture (http://wwwen.uni.lu/snt/distinguished_lectures), Center for Security, Reliability, and Trust, University of Luxembourg, Luxembourg, 13 July 2012.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/luxembourg12.pdf
17. Evidence-Based Elections, International Association of Clerks, Recorders, Election Officials & Treasurers (IACREOT) annual conference, Albuquerque, NM, 30 June 2012.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/iacreot12.pdf
18. Confidence Limits, Progress on Statistical Issues in Searches, SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, Stanford, CA, 4–6 June 2012.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/slac12.pdf
19. UQQ, UQ: Transition Workshop, SAMSI, Research Triangle Park, NC, 21–23 May 2012.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/samsi12.pdf
20. Testing for Poisson Behavior, Seismological Society of America Annual Meeting, San Diego, CA, 17–19 April 2012.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ssa12.pdf
21. Get Out The Audit (GOTA), Election Verification Network Annual Conference, Santa Fe, NM, 29–30 March 2012.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/evnGOTA12.pdf
22. The Long View: Evidence-Based Elections, Election Verification Network Annual Conference, Santa Fe, NM, 29–30 March 2012.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/evnLongView12.pdf
23. The Will of the People and the Luck of the Draw: Risk-Limiting Audits and Resilient Canvass Frameworks, San Francisco Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Berkeley, CA, 16 February 2012.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/asa12.pdf
24. Evidence-Based Elections: Colorado’s Future?, Colorado Elections Best Practices & Vision Commission, Denver, CO, 14 December 2011.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/co-11-12-14.pdf
    Audio: mms://pub.sos.state.co.us/20111214130705B
25. From the Virtual Trenches, Letters and Sciences Colloquium on Undergraduate Education: “The Virtual University—Challenges and Opportunities,” University of California, Berkeley, CA, 16 November 2011.
    http://ls.berkeley.edu/stories/archive/fall-2011-colloquium-undergraduate-education-0
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/onlineEd11.pdf
    Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=40vGDuPSJso
26. Earthquake Clustering and Declustering, Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris, Paris, France, 4 October 2011.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ipg11.pdf
27. Fears, Predictions, Hopes & Plans, Panel on the Future, Election Integrity: Past, Present, and Future, Caltech/MIT Voting Technology Project, Cambridge, MA, 1 October.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/mit11.pdf
    Video:
    http://techtv.mit.edu/collections/vtp/videos/14802-eippf-2011-3-the-future
28. Risk-limiting Audits: Soup to Nuts, and Beyond, Workshop on Electronic Voting Technology / Workshop on Transparent Elections, (EVT/WOTE ’11), USENIX, San Francisco, CA, 9 August 2011.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/evtRLA11.pdf
29. SOBA: Secrecy-preserving Observable Ballot-level Audit, Workshop on Electronic Voting Technology / Workshop on Transparent Elections, (EVT/WOTE ’11), USENIX, San Francisco, CA, 9 August 2011.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/evtSoba11.pdf
30. The Effectiveness of Internet Content Filtering, Workshop on Free and Open Communication on the Internet (FOCI ’11), USENIX, San Francisco, CA, 8 August 2011.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/foci11.pdf
31. SticiGui, Onsophic, and Statistics W21, Panel on online instruction, Joint Statistical Meetings, Miami Beach, FL, 31 August 2011.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/jsm11.pdf
32. Risk Limiting Audits, Colorado Secretary of State, Colorado Risk Limiting Audit (CORLA) Kick-off Meeting, Denver, CO, 16 June 2011.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/co-11-6-16.pdf
33. Simultaneous Confidence Intervals with more Power to Determine Signs, Conference in honor of Erich Lehmann, Rice University, Houston, TX, 12 May 2011.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/lehmann11.pdf
34. Close enough for government [to] work, Verified Voting Foundation, Palo Alto, CA, 27 April 2011.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/vv-11-4-27.pdf
35. Close enough for government [to] work: Risk-limiting post-election audits, Berkeley-Stanford Joint Statistics Colloquium, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 12 April 2011.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/stanford11.pdf
36. Audits: The After-Math of Elections, Verify early, verify often: creating secure, transparent and accurate elections, Election Verification Network, Chicago, IL, 25–26 March 2011.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/reed11.pdf
37. Simultaneous Confidence Intervals with more Power to Determine Signs, Department of Mathematics, Reed College, Portland, OR, 10 March 2011.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/reed11.pdf
38. Close enough for government work: Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits, Wharton Statistics Department, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 26 January 2011.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/penn11.pdf
39. Audits: The After-Math of Election Reform, Conference on Innovative Electoral Reforms and Strategies, Washington, DC, 10–11 December 2010.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/innovative10.pdf
40. Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits: Statistics, Policy, and Politics, Department of Statistics, Rice University, Houston, TX, 1 November 2010.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/rice10.pdf
41. Are Declustered Earthquake Catalogs Poisson?, Department of Statistics, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA, 14 October 2010.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/psu10.pdf
42. Super-simple simultaneous single-ballot risk-limiting audits, 2010 Electronic Voting Technology Workshop/Workshop on Trustworthy Elections (EVT/WOTE ’10), Washington, DC, 9–10 August 2010.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/evtwote10.pdf
43. AB 2023 and Risk-Limiting Audits, California Association of Clerks and Election Officials Legislative Committee Meeting, 14 May 2010.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/caceo-legis10.pdf
44. Justice and inequalities, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel, 13 April 2010.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/tau10.pdf
45. Size Matters: Smaller Batches Yield More Efficient Risk-Limiting Audits, Small-Batch Audit Meeting, Washington, DC, 27–28 March 2010.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/smallBatch10.pdf
46. Sexy Audits and the Single Ballot, Election Verification Network (EVN) annual conference, Washington, DC, 25–27 March 2010.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/evn10.pdf
47. Simple, Affordable, Post-Election Audits, Institute for Mathematical Behavioral Sciences, University of California, Irvine, CA, 7 January 2010.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/uci10.pdf
48. Efficient Post-Election Audits of Multiple Contests: 2009 California Tests, Conference on Empirical Legal Studies, University of Southern California Gould School of Law, Los Angeles, CA, 20–21 November 2009.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/cels09.pdf
49. Risk-Limiting Audits, Audit Working Meeting, American Statistical Association, Arlington, VA, 23–24 October 2009.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/asa09.pdf
50. Invited Panelist, Uncertainty Quantification and Error Analysis, Scientific Grand Challenges in National Security: the Role of Computing at the Extreme Scale, Washington, DC, 6–8 October 2009.
51. Some Ado about (mostly) Nothing: zero-dominated data, Alameda County Workshop on Avian Mortality at Altamont, Emeryville, CA, 22 September 2009.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/altamont09.pdf
52. Freedman’s Dialogue with the Social Sciences, 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington, DC, 5 August 2009.
53. Invited panelist, David A. Freedman’s Dialogue with the Social Sciences, The Society for Political Methodology 26th Annual Summer Meeting, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 23 July 2009.
54. Election Auditing: How Much is Enough?, The Society for Political Methodology 26th Annual Summer Meeting, Institution for Social and Policy Studies, Yale University, 23 July 2009. (Keynote lecture)
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/polMeth09.pdf
55. Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 31 March 2009.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ucb09.pdf
56. Uncertainty Quantification Qualification, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, 26 March 2009.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/llnl09.pdf
57. 2008 Risk-limiting Audits in California, The Pew Charitable Trusts Audit Workshop, Salt Lake City, UT, 23–24 February 2009.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/pew09.pdf
58. Election Auditing and Nonparametric Confidence Bounds, Department of Mathematics, Reed College, Portland, OR, 20 November 2008.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/reed08.pdf
59. Risk-Limiting Post-Election Audits, Department of Statistics, Kansas State University, Manhattan, KS, 2 October 2008.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ksu08.pdf
60. CAST: Canvass Audits by Sampling and Testing, 2008 American Political Science Association Annual Meeting, Panel 2008MP04292: Catch Me If You Can: Techniques to Detect Electoral Fraud, Boston, MA, 28–31 August 2008.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/apsa08.pdf
61. Invited panelist, Joint Statistical Meetings session, Statistical Measures Can Help Restore Confidence in U.S. Elections, Denver, CO, 3–7 August 2008.
62. Invited Panel on Post-Election Auditing: The Academic & Advocacy Perspective, California Association of Clerks and Election Officials (CACEO) 100th Anniversary Celebration Conference, Long Beach, CA, 8–11 July 2008.
63. Statistical Audits: Why and How Much?, Invited Panel on Post-Election Auditing: Practical Experience and Best Practices, California Association of Clerks and Election Officials (CACEO) 100th Anniversary Celebration Conference, Long Beach, CA, 8–11 July 2008.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/caceo08.pdf
64. Invited Panel on Online Learning, UC21st Century, Teaching, Learning and Technology: Past, present and future, University of California, Davis, 20–21 June 2008.
65. SticiGui—What is it?, Department of Statistics, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, 29 May 2008.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ucla08.pdf
66. Election Auditing: How Much Is Enough?, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Annual Meeting of Academic Sponsors and Steering Committee, Berkeley, CA, 7 March 2008.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/msri08.pdf
67. Invited Panelist, 2007 Post Election Audit Summit, Minneapolis, MN, 25–27 October 2007.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/peaSummit07.pdf
68. Urning Voter Confidence, Department of Mathematics, Reed College, Portland, OR, 11 October 2007.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/reed07.pdf
69. Frequentist Methods in Inverse Problems, Sandia CSRI Workshop on Large-Scale Inverse Problems and Quantification of Uncertainty, Santa Fe, NM, 10–12 September 2007.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/sandia07.odp
70. How Statistics Helps, 9th US Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, CA, 22–26 July 2007.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/compMech07.odp
71. Nonparametrics: nonpareil?, Veterans Administration Hospital, Neuropsychology Brown Bag Lunch, Martinez, CA, 15 May 2007.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ebire-5-15-07.pdf
72. Shaking Down Earthquake Predictions, Department of Statistics, University of California, Davis, 25 May 2006
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ucd-5-25-06.pdf
73. Measuring Resolution in Nonlinear and Constrained Inverse Problems, Workshop on Statistical Inverse Problems, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, Göttingen, Germany, 23–25 March 2006.
    http://www.num.math.uni-goettingen.de/gk/?Workshops:Workshop_on_Statistical_Inverse_Problems
74. Resolution in Nonlinear and Constrained Inverse Problems, Workshop on Computational and Mathematical Geoscience, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, 15–17 June 2005.
75. Quantifying uncertainty in inverse problems, Summer school: Mathematical Geophysics and Uncertainty in Earth Models, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, 14–25 June 2004.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/mines04.pdf
76. Estimating power spectra of galaxy structure: can Statistics help?, Penetrating bars through masks of cosmic dust: the Hubble tuning fork strikes a new note, Pilanesberg National Park, South Africa, 7–12 June 2004.
    http:statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/bars04.ppt
77. Quantifying uncertainty in inverse problems, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) Conference on Statistical Methods for Inverse Problems, IPAM, Los Angeles, CA, 5–6 November 2003.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ipam03.ppt
78. Using what we know: inference with physical constraints, PhyStat 2003: Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA, 8–10 September 2003
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/phyStat03.pdf
79. Statistical Approaches to Inverse Problems. Danish Interdisciplinary Inversion Group Seminars on Inverse Problems: Insight and Algorithms. Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, Copenhagen, Denmark, 27–29 May 2002.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/bohr02.ppt
80. Statistical Measures of Uncertainty in Inverse Problems. Institute for Mathematics and its Applications Tutorial on Inverse Problems and the Quantification of Uncertainty, Annual Program Mathematics in the Geosciences, Minneapolis, MN, 19 March 2002.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ima02.ppt
81. Data Errors, Model Errors, and Estimation Errors, Frontiers of Geophysical Inversion Workshop, Waterways Experiment Station, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Engineer Research and Development Center, Vicksburg, MS, 17–19 February 2002.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/wes02.ppt
82. Strategic Planning and Implementation I: The Challenge of Adapting Organizations and Creating Partnerships to Target New Markets, University Teaching as E-business?, Center for Studies in Higher Education, Berkeley, CA, 26–27 October 2001.
83. Inverse Problems and Data Errors, New Developments in Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Chateau de Mons, Caussens, France, 25–29 June 2001.
84. Data Reduction and Inverse Problems in Helioseismology, Workshop “Statistics of inverse problems,” Institut Henri Poincaré, Paris, France, 28–29 May 2001.
85. Why Statistics is worth the Stigma, Letters and Sciences Faculty Forum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 23 April 2001.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/stigma01.ppt
86. Inverse Problems in Helioseismology, Second MaPhySto Workshop on Inverse Problems: Inverse problems from a Statistical Perspective, Aalborg, Denmark, 28–31 March 2001.
87. What are the Chances?, NATO Advanced Research Workshop: State of scientific knowledge regarding earthquake occurrence and implications for public policy, Le Dune, Piscinas — Arbus, Sardinia, Italy, 15–19 October 2000.
88. Why Unadjusted Census Results should be Used for Reapportionment and Funding within the State of California, 13th Annual Demographic Workshop, U.S. Bureau of the Census, California State Census Data Center, and the Population Research Laboratory of the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, 15 May 2000.
89. Invited discussant, Workshop of the National Academy of Sciences Panel to Review the 2000 Census, Washington, D.C., 2–3 February 2000.
90. Invited discussant, Panel discussion on the role of sampling in the US Census, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 20 December 1999.
91. Lecturer, Mathematical Geophysics Summer School, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2–20 August 1999.
92. Less Asymptotic Tomography. 9th SOHO Workshop: Helioseismic Diagnostics of Solar Convection and Activity, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 12–15 July 1999.
93. Invited Panelist, Reinventing Undergraduate Education: Technology Enhanced Learning in the Sciences, Math, and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 23 April 1999.
94. Error in Numerical Models Fitted to Data. DSRC/DARPA Study on Numerical Simulation of Physical Systems: The State of the Art, and Opportunities for Further Advances, Kick-Off Meeting, Arlington, VA, 19–20 January 1999.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/dsrc99.htm
95. Sampling to Adjust the U.S. Census. Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 12 January 1999.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/mibrs99.htm
96. A Statistician’s Perspective on Census Adjustment, Berkeley Breakfast Club, Berkeley, CA, 5 December 1998.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/bbc98.htm
97. SticiGui: Melts in your Browser, not in your Brain, Joint Berkeley-Stanford Statistics Colloquium, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 27 October 1998.
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/bsc98.htm
98. SticiGui: Statistics Tools for Internet and Classroom Instruction with a Graphical User Interface, 1998 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Orlando, FL, 12 August 1998.
99. Presidential Panel on Statistics in Public Policy, 1998 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Orlando, FL, 10 August 1998.
100. Misfit Measures and Statistical Inconsistency in Linear Inverse Problems. AMS/IMS/SIAM Joint Summer Research Conferences in the Mathematical Sciences, Mathematical Methods in Inverse Problems for Partial Differential Equations, Mt. Holyoke, MA, 4–9 July 1998.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/ams-ims-siam-98.pdf
101. Uncertainties for functions from incomplete, erroneous data. NSF/DOE Workshop on Uncertainty in Modeling, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, 11–12 June 1998.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/nsf-doe-98.htm
102. Sampling to adjust the 1990 Census for Undercount. U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census, May 1998.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Census/house-5-5-98-pbs.pdf
103. Sounding the Sun: Helioseismology. 1998 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition, Philadelphia, PA., February 1998.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/Aaas/helio.htm
104. Data Sampling Rate Reduction for the OERSTED geomagnetic Satellite, Department of Geological Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 28 July 1997.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/Oersted/writeup.htm
105. Does God play dice with the Earth, and if so, are they loaded? Fourth SIAM Conference on Mathematical and Computational Methods in the Geosciences, Albuquerque, NM, 16 June 1997.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/doesgod.htm
106. Solving Problems for a Large Statistics Lecture Course using a Website UC Berkeley Academic Senate Workshop on Classroom Technology, Berkeley, CA, 11 April 1997.
     http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Seminars/itpTalk.htm
107. Deficiencies of the simple theories, Local Helioseismology Workshop, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England, 1997.
108. CMB’s, Royal Astronomical Society Ordinary Meeting, London, England, 1996.
109. The Null Hypothesis, Royal Astronomical Society and Joint Associations for Geophysics discussion meeting on Assessment of Schemes for Earthquake Prediction, London, England, 1996.
110. On the consistency of multiple inference in inverse problems using l_p confidence sets, International Conference on Multiple Comparisons, Tel Aviv, Israel, 1996.
111. Confidence Intervals in Inverse Problems, Conference in Honor of George Backus, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, CA, 1995.
112. The Need for Wave-Equation Travel-Time Tomography, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, Conference on Tomography, Minneapolis, MN, 1995.
113. Inference, Prior Information, and Misfit Measures, Interdisciplinary Inversion Conference on Methodology, Computation and Integrated Applications, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark, 1995.
114. Optimization and Inference in Travel-Time Seismology, National Research Council Board on Mathematical Sciences Symposium on Mathematical Sciences in Seismology, Washington, DC, 1995.
115. Prior Information and Confidence Intervals in Inverse Problems, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Meeting, Boulder, CO, 1995.
116. Something AGAINST Nothing: A Confidence Game, Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Orlando, FL, 1995.
117. Uncertainties in Travel-Time Seismology, SIAM/GAMM Symposium on Inverse Problems: Geophysical Applications, Fish Camp, CA, 1995.
118. Toward Tubular Tomography, 27th General Assembly of the Int. Assoc. of Seismology and Phys. of the Earth’s Inter. (IASPEI), Wellington, New Zealand, 1994.
119. Alternative Data Analysis Techniques, Global Oscillation Network Group annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA, (presented by C. Genovese due to illness), 1994.
120. Mathematical Aspects of Integral Equation Inversion, Global Oscillation Network Group workshop, Sydney, Australia, 1994.
121. Conservative Finite-Sample Confidence Envelopes for Monotone and Unimodal Densities, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach meeting on Curves, Images and Massive Computation, Oberwolfach, Germany, 1993.
122. Invited discussant, Joint IMS/ASA/ENAR Meeting, Philadelphia, PA, 1993.
123. Uncertainty of the Quadrupole Component of the Cosmic Microwave Background, Israel Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Tel Aviv, 1993.
124. Brute-Force Minimax Estimation in Geochemistry, Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, San Francisco, CA, 1993.
125. Conservative Numerical Uncertainty Estimates in Inverse Problems, SIAM 40th Anniversary Meeting, Los Angeles, CA, 1992.
126. Minimax Estimation in Geomagnetism, European Geophysical Society Annual Meeting, Wiesbaden, Germany, 1991.
127. Minimax Estimation in Geophysical Inverse Problems: Applications to Seismic Tomography and Geomagnetism, Schmitt Institute for Physics of the Earth, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1991.
128. Imagining Earth’s Interior: Controversies in Seismology and Geomagnetism, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Workshop on Statistical Methods in Imaging, Berkeley, CA, 1991.
129. Discretization and its Discontents: New Methods in Inverse Theory, Institute for Theoretical Physics program “Helioseismology—Probing the Interior of a Star,” National Science Foundation Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990.
130. Inference in Infinite-Dimensional Inverse Problems, Schmitt Institute for Physics of the Earth, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow, 1990.
131. Inference in Infinite-Dimensions: Discretization and Duality, Israel Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Jerusalem, 1990.
132. Superresolution: What, When and How?, Institute for Theoretical Physics program “Helioseismology—Probing the Interior of a Star,” National Science Foundation Institute for Theoretical Physics, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1990.
133. Sparsity-Constrained Deconvolution, International Union of Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, 1989.
134. Invited discussant, Statistics, Earth and Space Sciences Meeting of the Bernoulli Society, Leuven, Belgium, 1989.
135. Rigorous Computer Solutions to Infinite-Dimensional Inverse Problems, rcp 264 problemes inverses, Montpellier, France, 1989.
136. Duality and Discretization Error, Conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Blanes, Spain, 1988.
137. Spectral extrapolation with positivity, International Union of Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO, 1987.
138. Travel-Time Constraints on Core Structure, Special Session on Geophysics of the Core and Core-Mantle Boundary, American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Baltimore, MD, 1986.
139. Smooth Models from tau(p) and X(p) Data, Scripps Industrial Associates Short Course on Inverse Theory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, 1986.

Other Invited Seminars

• California State University, Chico (Mathematics 1993)
• Colorado School of Mines (Mathematical and Computer Sciences 1997)
• Copenhagen University (Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics, and Geophysics 1996)
• Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Statistics 1993)
• Kansas State University (Statistics 2008)
• Pennsylvania State University (Statistics 1010)
• National Solar Observatory (1997)
• Naval Postgraduate School (Operations Research, 2001)
• Reed College (Mathematics, 2007, 2008, 2011)
• Rice University (Statistics, 2010)
• Schlumberger-Doll Research (1988, 1990, 1991, 1992)
• Southern Methodist University (Statistical Sciences, 1998)
• Stanford University (Center for Space Physics and Astrophysics 1992; Mathematics 1997; Geology and Geophysics 1993, 1997; Statistics 1988, 1993, 1995, 2011)
• The Technion (Statistics 1987)
• Tel Aviv University (Geology and Geophysics 1988, 1991; Statistics 1991, 2010)
• University of British Columbia (Geophysics and Astronomy 1996)
• University of California, Berkeley (Astronomy 1996; Center for Pure and Applied Mathematics 1988; Geology and Geophysics 1988; Materials Science and Mineral Engineering 1988; Physics, 2001; Seismographic Stations, 1991, 1992, 1996; Statistics 1987, 1988(2),1989(2), 1990, 1991, 1992, 1994, 1996(2), 1997, 2006, 2009, 2011)
• University of California, Davis (Statistics 1995, 2006; Mathematics 2000)
• University of California, Los Angeles (Mathematics 1992; Statistics 2000, 2008, 2013)
• University of California, Riverside (Earth Sciences 1996; Statistics 1996)
• University of California, San Diego (Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics 1985, 1986, 1987, 1988(2), 1990, 1998, 2005; Mathematics 1994)
• University of Cambridge (Institute for Astronomy 1992, 1997)
• University of Chicago (Statistics 1990)
• University of Edinburgh (Earth Sciences, 1998)
• University of Paris, Institute de Physique du Globe de Paris (2011)
• University of Pennsylvania (Wharton Statistics Department, 2011)
• University of Texas at Austin (Geological Sciences 1988; Mathematics 1990, 1991; Institute for Geophysics 1990)
• Veterans Affairs Northern California Health Care System, Martinez, CA (East Bay Institute for Research and Education, 2007)
• Yale University (Geology and Geophysics 1988; Statistics 1988)

Selected News Coverage

• Saving throw: securing democracy with stats, spreadsheets, and 10-sided dice: “Risk-limiting audits” use sound math to make sure the right candidate won. Cyrus Farivar, Ars Technica, 24 July 2012. (Election auditing)
  http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/07/saving-american-elections-with-10-sided-dice-one-stats-profs-quest/
• New audit method could improve detection of flaws—and fix them. Adam Playford and Pat Beall, Palm Beach Post, 8 May 2012. (Election auditing)
  http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/new-post-election-audit-method-could-improve-detection-2346480.html
• Are large earthquakes increasing in frequency? Deanna Conners, EarthSky, 4 March 2012. (Earthquake clustering)
  http://earthsky.org/earth/are-large-earthquakes-increasing-in-frequency
• Geologists wonder if the Northwest is up next for a giant earthquake. Joe Rojas-Burke, The Oregonian, 21 December 2011. Syndicated in Middle East North Africa Financial Network. (Earthquake clustering)
  http://www.oregonlive.com/environment/index.ssf/2011/12/geologists_wonder_if_the_north.html
  http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story.asp?storyid=%7B1ee57506-581b-4e99-a8be-41b9f35197e5%7D
• Mega-quake clusters unlikely: study. Anna Salleh, ABC, 20 December 2011. (Earthquake clustering)
  http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/12/20/3394245.htm
• Rest Your Fears: Big Earthquakes Not on the Rise. Stephanie Pappas, LiveScience, 9 December 2011. Syndicated in MSNBC and Fox News 10 December 2011. (Earthquake clustering)
  http://www.livescience.com/17400-big-earthquakes-random.html
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/45616503/ns/technology_and_science-science/#.TueIXGB8-oc
  http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/12/10/rest-your-fears-big-earthquakes-not-on-rise/
• San Luis Obispo takes part in pilot program for ballot audits. Bethany Tucker, KSBY News, 12 September 2011. (Election auditing)
  http://www.ksby.com/news/san-luis-obispo-takes-part-in-pilot-program-for-ballot-audits/
• O.C. could see fewer election recounts. Martin Wisckol, Orange County Register, 6 May 2011. (Election auditing)
  http://totalbuzz.ocregister.com/2011/05/06/o-c-could-see-fewer-election-recounts/52659/
• Experts shouldn’t be needed to call outcome of election. Albany Times Sun Union, 1 January 2011. (Election auditing)
  http://www.timesunion.com/opinion/article/Experts-shouldn-t-be-needed-to-call-outcome-of-930928.php
• Equation: Calculating Ballot Bungles is all about the P-Value. Julie Rehmeyer, Wired, November 2010, p.56. (Election auditing)
  http://www.wired.com/magazine/2010/11/st_equation_votes/
• UC Berkeley Professor’s Auditing System Aims to Count Votes More Accurately. Claire Perlman, Daily Californian, 28 April 2010. (Election auditing)
  http://www.dailycal.org/article/109295/uc_berkeley_professor_s_auditing_system_aims_to_co
• California Assembly committee endorses UC Berkeley statistician’s election auditing method. Robert Sanders, Media Relations, UCBerkeleyNews, 26 April 2010. (Election auditing)
  http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2010/04/26_canvass.shtml
• Judge upholds November election of Novato Sanitary District board. Brent Ainsworth, The Marin Independent Journal, 8 March 2010. (Contested election)
  http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_14636416
• Novato Sanitary election fight rolls on. Jim Welte, The Marin Independent Journal, 23 February 2010. (Contested election)
  http://www.marinij.com/marinnews/ci_14456925
• Novato Sanitary board race tightens. Jim Welte, The Marin Independent Journal, 12 November 2009. (Election auditing)
  http://www.marinij.com/election/ci_13773039
• China To Require Filtering Software On PCs. Thomas Claburn, Information Week, 8 June 2009. (Internet content filtering)
  http://www.informationweek.com/news/internet/policy/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=217800108&section=All+Stories
• Checking It Twice. Julie J. Rehmeyer, Science News, 19 January 2008. (Election auditing)
  http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/9292/title/Math_Trek__Checking_It_Twice
• Internet is 99 per cent porn free. Iain Thomson, vnunet.com, 15 November 2006. (Internet content filtering)
  http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2168636/internet-per-cent-porn-free
• Internet Content Filters Fail to Block Sexually Explicit Material. Thomas Claburn, Information Week, 14 November 2006. (Internet content filtering)
  http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=194300677&section=All+Stories
• 1 percent of Web sites deemed pornographic. Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press, 14 November 2006. (Internet content filtering)
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15721799/
• Only 1 percent of Web pages have porn? Declan McCullagh, News.com, 14 November 2006. (Internet content filtering)
  http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-6135662-7.html
• U.S., Google Set to Face Off in Court. Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, 14 March 2006. (Internet content filtering)
  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/n/a/2006/03/13/financial/f133050S47.DTL&type=printable
• Google privacy issue enters court. Al Jazeera, 14 March 2006. (Internet content filtering)
  http://english.aljazeera.net/archive/2006/03/2008410131655473737.html
• In Case About Google’s Secrets, Yours Are Safe. Adam Liptak, New York Times, 26 January 2006. (Internet content filtering)
  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/technology/26privacy.html?_r=1&emc=eta1&oref=slogin
• Google Resists U.S. Subpoena of Search Data. Katie Hafner and Matt Richtel, New York Times, 20 January 2006. (Internet content filtering)
  http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/20/technology/20google.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
• Feds take porn fight to Google. Declan McCullagh and Elinor Mills, CNET News, 19 January 2006. (Internet content filtering)
  http://news.cnet.com/Feds-take-porn-fight-to-Google/2100-1030_3-6028701.html?tag=mncol;txt
• How deep is an earthquake? Science News, 2 March 1985. (Deep earthquakes)

Media Appearances; News Mention

• From geeky to cool: Statistics is Berkeleys fastest-growing major. Carol Ness, Berkeley NewsCenter, 16 April 2013
  http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/04/16/from-geeky-to-cool-statistics-is-berkeleys-fastest-growing-major
• The Upbeat Stats on Statistics. Carl Bialik, Wall Street Journal, 1 March 2013
  http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/the-upbeat-stats-on-statistics-1216
• As Ohio Faces Vote-Rigging Lawsuit, Are Dems, Liberals, Election Officials Ready to Safeguard Votes? Art Levine, The Huffington Post, 2 November 2012
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/art-levine/mia-in-voting-machine-war_b_2054411.html?utm_hp_ref=voting-rights
• Will the Next Election be Hacked? Michael Agresta, The Wall Street Journal, 17 August 2012
  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390444508504577595280674870186.html
• Florida law hinders vote audits. Adam Playford and Pat Beall, Palm Beach Post, 8 May 2012
  http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/florida-law-hinders-vote-audits-2346483.html
• Imagining a Census Survey Without a Mandate. Carl Bialik, The Wall Street Journal, 30 March 2012.
  http://blogs.wsj.com/numbersguy/imagining-a-census-survey-without-a-mandate-1129/
• Cuyahoga County elections board leads pack in testing, auditing. Laura Johnston, The Plain Dealer, 1 January 2012.
  http://blog.cleveland.com/metro/2012/01/cuyahoga_county_elections_boar_5.html
• Radio Australia “Connect Asia” program, 21 December 2011. (Earthquake clustering)
  http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/connectasia/
• In This Dating Game, the Best Match Could Be Years Away. Carl Bialik, The Wall Street Journal, 16 July 2011.
  http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304521304576447892115939486.html
• Dozens of personal care products mislabeled as ‘organic,’ lawsuit says. Joanna Lin, California Watch, 20 June 2011.
  http://californiawatch.org/dailyreport/dozens-personal-care-products-mislabeled-organic-lawsuit-says-10873
• San Jose siblings two years apart, born on the same day at the same time. Jane J. Lee, Silicon Valley Mercury News, 14 June 2011.
  http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_18273248?nclick_check=1
• Consumer Reports Cops to Chrysler Data Gaps. Eric Mayne, WardsAuto.com, 2 Mar 2011.
  http://wardsauto.com/ar/consumer_reports_chrysler_110302/
• Fifty million to one: Mother defies odds to give birth on 10.10.10 after two others were born on 09.09.09 and 08.08.08. Daily Mail, 15 October 2010.
  http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1320840/Fifty-million-Mother-defies-odds-birth-10-10-10-born-09-09-09-08-08-08.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
• Mom’s babies born on 8-8-08, 9-9-09, 10-10-10. Elizabeth Weise, USA TODAY, 14 October 2010.
  http://www.usatoday.com/yourlife/parenting-family/babies/2010-10-14-Birthday14_ST_N.htm
• Ready or Not. Cosma Shalizi, American Scientist, March 2010. (Earthquake prediction)
  http://www.americanscientist.org/bookshelf/pub/ready-or-not
• AIDS Vaccine Trial Shows Only Slight Protection. Donald G. McNeil Jr., New York Times, 21 October 2009.
  http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/21/health/research/21vaccine.html?_r=1
• KQED-FM Forum program on the Census, 6 March 2009.
• Census, partisan wrangling go hand-in-hand. Tyche Hendricks, Scripps News, 23 February 2009.
  http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/41139
• Why the census is always political. Tyche Hendricks, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 February 2009.
  http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/02/22/MNPB161PBV.DTL
• He’s Out for the Count. Mark Hosenball, NEWSWEEK, 14 February 2009, Magazine issue dated 23 February 2009.
  http://www.newsweek.com/id/184802
• Measure B court challenge heads to San Francisco. Karen de Sá, Mercury News, 1 December 2008.
  http://www.mercurynews.com/politics/ci_11113510
• New Election Audit Targets Close Races. Laura Snider, Daily Camera, 26 November 2008.
  http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/nov/26/new-election-audit-targets-close-races/
• Counting Continues for Elections Department. Redwood Times, 19 November 2008.
  http://www.redwoodtimes.com/local/ci_11023304
• Reelz Channel Dailies “Is it Real?” Reelz Channel, 15 June 2007.
• The Fred Ebert Show program on probability and statistics. KIRO 710, Seattle, WA, 27 October 2003
• AFC NewSource story on airline security [Airings: The Osgood File (CBS Radio Network), 7/29/03, 2/18/03; KRON-TV (San Francisco), 2/3/03]
  http://www.acfnewsource.org/science/random_security.html
• ABC 7 News story on census adjustment, 30 November 1998
• KQED-FM Forum program on the 2000 Census, San Francisco, CA, 17 July 1998.
  http://www.kqed.org/radio/programs/forum/

Teaching and Advising

Courses

• BerkeleyX 2.1x https://www.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/Stat2.1x/2013_Spring/about, an Introductory Statistics MOOC (52,661 students enrolled; 15.5% completion rate)
• BerkeleyX 2.2x https://www.edx.org/courses/BerkeleyX/Stat2.2x/2013_April/about, an Introductory Statistics MOOC
• Introduction to Statistics (Statistics 2)
• Introduction to Probability and Statistics (Statistics 20)
• Introductory Probability and Statistics for Business (Statistics 21, N21, W21)
• Introduction to Probability and Statistics for Scientists and Engineers (Statistics 25)
• Societal Risks and the Law (Statistics C79)
• Freshman Seminar on Statistics (Statistics 39)
• Statistical Inferences for Social and Life Scientists (Statistics 131A)
• Concepts of Probability (Statistics 134)
• Concepts of Statistics (Statistics 135)
• Linear Modeling: Theory and Applications (Statistics 151A)
• Introduction to Probability and Statistics at an Advanced Level (Statistics 200A)
• Theoretical Statistics (Statistics 210B)
• Applied Statistics (Statistics 215B)
• Statistics Masters Program Capstone (Statistics 222)
• Nonparametric and Robust Methods (Statistics 240)
• Topics in Probability and Statistics (Statistics 260)
• Statistical Consulting (Statistics 272)

Former Graduate Students and Postdocs

• Imola K. Fodor, Genentech
• Johann Gagnon-Bartsch, University of California, Berkeley
• Christopher R. Genovese, Carnegie Mellon University
• Niklaus W. Hengartner, Los Alamos National Laboratory
• Janne Huttunen, University of Auckland and University of Kuopio
• Bradley Luen, Indiana University
• Dmitry I. Nikolayev, Schmidt Institute for Physics of the Earth
• R. Jay Pulliam, University of Texas
• Jeffery Regier
• Chad M. Schafer, Carnegie Mellon University

Graduate Committees

1. Alameida, Jose, Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2008
2. Bach, Andre, Physics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2011
3. Bar-Yossef, Ziv, Computer Science. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2001; dissertation committee, “The Complexity of Massive Data Set Computations,” 2002
4. Bein, Ed, Biostatistics. MA examination, 2002
5. Berny, Axel Dominique, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2004; dissertation committee, “Analysis and Design of Wideband LC VCOs,” 2006
6. Bodik, Peter, Computer Science. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2007; dissertation committee, “Automating Datacenter Operations Using Machine Learning,” 2010
7. Bowman, John Penfield, IEOR. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2003
8. Bunn, Emory Freeman, Physics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1994; dissertation committee, “Statistical Analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy,” 1995
9. Burstein, Richard David II, Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2004; dissertation committee, “Hadamard Subfactors of Bisch-Haagerup Type,” 2008.
10. Buttrey, Samuel Edward, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1994; dissertation committee, “Nearest-Neighbor Classification with Categorical Variables,” 1996
11. Calef, Brandoch Hugh, Applied Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1997; dissertation committee, “Optimal Sampling of the Discrete Fourier Transform,” 2002
12. Charman, Andrew Emile, Physics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2003; dissertation committee, “Random Aspects of Beam Physics and Laser-Plasma Interactions,” 2006
13. Chen, Raymond Lei, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1993; dissertation committee, “A Qualitative Modeling Framework of Semiconductor Manufacturing Processes: Self-Learning Fuzzy Inference System and the Statistical Analysis of Categorical Data,” 1994
14. Chien, George, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1998
15. Feldman, Arnold R., EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1995; dissertation committee, “High-Speed, Low-Power Sigma-Delta Modulators for RF Baseband Channel Applications,” 1997
16. Fodor, Imola K., Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1997; chair, dissertation committee, “Spectrum Estimation in Helioseismology,” 1999
17. Fong, Keng Leong, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1996; dissertation committee, “Design and Optimization Techniques for Monolithic RF Downconversion Mixers,” 1997
18. Gagnon-Bartsch, Johann, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2009; co-chair, dissertation committee “Removing Unwanted Variation from Microarray Data with Negative Controls,” 2012
19. Gawiser, Eric Joseph, Physics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1998
20. Genovese, Christopher Ralph, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1992; chair, dissertation committee, “Statistical Problems in Helioseismology,” 1994
21. Goldman, Megan, Biostatistics. Chair, Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2009
22. Gung, Yuan-Cheng, Geophysics. Dissertation committee, “Q Tomography of the Earth Mantle,” 2003
23. Hansen, Bendek, Statistics. Chair, MA thesis committee, “Minimax Expected Length Confidence Intervals,” 2000
24. Hansen, Mark Henry, Statistics. Chair, Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1992
25. Hengartner, Niklaus Walther, Statistics. Co-chair, dissertation committee, “Topics in Density Estimation,” 1993
26. Higgins, Mike, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2009, 2010.
27. Huang, Hsiang-Ping, Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1996
28. Huang, Jianhua, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1994; dissertation committee, “Topics in Extended Linear Modeling,” 1997
29. Huang, Yuanlin, Civil Engineering. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1993, 1994
30. Jiang, Xuesong, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2001
31. Jones, David Morgan, Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1994; dissertation committee, “On Modular Galois Representations in Characteristic 3,” 1998
32. Katsis, Dimitrios, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2005
33. Kiesling, Max Karl, Civil Engineering. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1994
34. Li, Bo, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2004
35. Loscutoff, Peter, Physics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2011; dissertation committee, “Search for resonant WZ → ℓνℓℓ production using 13fb^?1 in = 8TeV pp collisions with the ATLAS detector,” 2013
36. Luen, Bradley, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2006; Chair, dissertation committee, “Earthquake Prediction: Simple Methods for Complex Phenomena,” 2010
37. Madar, Vered, Statistics and Operations Research, Tel Aviv University. MA thesis committee, “Non-equivariant confidence intervals,” 2002
38. Megnin, Charles Henri, Geophysics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1996; dissertation committee, “The Shear Velocity Structure of the Mantle from the Inversion of Time-Domain Waveform Data,” 1999
39. Mieler, Michael William, Civil Engineering. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2011.
40. Miratrix, Luke W., Statistics. Chair, Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2010
41. Murmann, Boris, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2002; dissertation committee, “Digital Calibration for Low-Power High-Performance A/D Conversion,” 2003
42. Ou, Jeffrey Jiajiunn, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1995
43. Petkov, Vladimir Plamenov, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2003
44. Poobuapheun, Nuntachai, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2005; dissertation committee. “LNA and Mixer Designs for Multi-Band Receiver Front-Ends,” 2009
45. Puente, Suzette, Statistics. M.A. committee, 2013.
46. Pulliam, R. Jay, Geophysics. Ph.D. dissertation committee, “Imaging Earth’s Interior: Tomographic Inversion of Mantle P-Wave Velocity Structure,” 1991
47. Qian, Kun, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2009
48. Regier, Jeffery, Statistics. Chair, M.A. committee, 2013.
49. Rein, Steven Richard, Statistics. Chair, Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1990
50. Schafer, Chad Michael, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2001; chair, dissertation committee, “Constructing Confidence Regions of Optimal Expected Size: Theory and Application to Cosmic Microwave Inference,” 2004
51. Son, Sang Won, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2000; dissertation committee, “High Dynamic Range CMOS Mixer Design,” 2002
52. Suzuki, Toru, Demography. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1995; dissertation committee, “Projection of Households in Japan with a Dynamic Macro-Simulation Model,” 1999
53. Tee, Luns, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2001
54. Tenorio, Luis-Francisco, Mathematics. Ph.D. dissertation committee, “Asymptotic Dynamics of Locally Oblique Solitary Wave Soltuions of the KP Equation,” 1992
55. Thompson, Neil, Statistics. M.A. committee, 2012
56. To, Albert Chi Fu, Statistics. M.A. committee, 2005
57. Wagner, Tim Allen, CS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1995; dissertation committee, “Practical Algorithms for Incremental Software Development Environments,” 1997
58. Wicks, Charles Wesley Jr., Geophysics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1990; dissertation committee, “An Investigation of Mantle Discontinuities Beneath the Southwest Pacific,” 1994
59. Yates, Vincent, Statistics. Chair, M.A. committee, 2012.
60. Ying, Jun, Naval Architecture. D. Eng. qualifying examination, 1995; dissertation committee, “Development and Verification of Computer Simulation Models for Evaluation of Siting Strategies and Evacuation Procedures for Mobile Drilling Units in Hurricanes,” 1996
61. Zhang, Xiaoyan, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1997
62. Zagheni, Emilio, Demography. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2008

Undergraduate Research and Honors Thesis Advisees

• 2010–2011 Katherine McLaughlin
• 2010 Aaron Taylor
• 2010 Hua Yang
• 2009 Joshua M. Levin
• 2008 Jonathan Ong
• 2007 Gerold Ng
• 2003–2004 Feng Tang
• 1993–1996 Dendy Harjanto
• 1988–1993 10 others

Service

Professional Societies and Government Agencies

• 2013
  
  • Consultant, California Secretary of State
  • Consultant, Colorado Secretary of State
  • Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
  • Travis County Texas Elections Division STAR-Vote System Brain Trust
  • Founding Steering Committee and Editorial Board, USENIX Journal of Voting Technology
  • Organizing committee co-chair, 2014 SIAM/ASA Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Savannah, GA
• 2012
  
  • Consultant, California Secretary of State
  • Consultant, Colorado Secretary of State
  • Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice
  • Travis County Texas Elections Division STAR-Vote System Brain Trust
  • Founding Steering Committee, USENIX Journal of Voting Technology
  • Reviewer, National Science Foundation
  • Program committee, 2012 Electronic Voting Technology / Workshop on Transparent Elections (EVT/WOTE ’12), USENIX Security Symposium, Bellevue, WA
  • Session organizer, 2012 Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, San Diego, CA
  • Session organizer, 1st Conference of the International Society for NonParametric Statistics, Chalkidiki, Greece
  • Organizing committee co-chair, 2014 SIAM/ASA Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Savannah, GA
  • Program committee, 2012 SIAM/ASA/SAMSI/USACM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Raleigh, NC
  • Session organizer, Election Verification Network (EVN) annual conference, Santa Fe, NM
• 2011
  
  • Consultant and Expert Witness, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division (for U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)
  • Program committee, 2012 SIAM/ASA/SAMSI/USACM Conference on Uncertainty Quantification, Raleigh, NC
  • Consultant, California Secretary of State
  • Consultant, Colorado Secretary of State
  • Session organizer, Election Verification Network (EVN) annual conference, Chicago, IL
• 2010
  
  • Consultant and Expert Witness, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division (for Department of Housing and Urban Development)
  • Consultant, State of Illinois
  • Consultant, California Attorney General (for California Highway Patrol)
  • Consultant, New York State Senate
  • Reviewer, Department of Defense Strategic Environmental Research and Development Program
  • Session organizer, Election Verification Network (EVN) annual conference, Washington, DC
• 2009
  
  • Consultant, California Secretary of State
• 2008
  
  • Consultant, California Secretary of State
• 2007
  
  • California Secretary of State Post-Election Audit Standards Working Group
    http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_peas.htm
• 2006
  
  • Consultant and Expert Witness, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
• 2005
  
  • Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
  • Consultant, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
  • Consultant, Habeas Corpus Resource Center
• 2004
  
  • Reviewer, National Science Foundation
  • Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
  • Consultant, U.S. Attorney’s Office
  • Consultant, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
• 2003
  
  • Reviewer, National Science Foundation
  • Referee, National Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada
  • Consultant, U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center
• 2002
  
  • Consultant, U.S. Department of Agriculture
  • Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
• 2001
  
  • Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
  • Co-organizer, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications Annual Program Mathematics in the Geosciences and workshop on Inverse Problems and the Quantification of Uncertainty
• 2000
  
  • Invited discussant, National Academy of Science Committee on National Statistics workshop on dual-system estimation for the 2000 Census
  • Consultant, U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division
• 1998
  
  • Witness, U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census.
  • Panelist, National Science Foundation
• 1997
  
  • Session organizer, International Statistical Institute and Bernoulli Society Meeting, Istanbul, Turkey
• 1996–present
  
  • Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG) Data Users Committee (Chair, 1996–1998)
  • Reviewer for United States Geological Survey
• 1996–1999
  
  • Consultant, National Security Agency
• 1995
  
  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics Program Chair, Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Orlando, FL
• 1994–1996
  
  • Consultant to Federal Trade Commission
• 1993
  
  • Session organizer and chair, IMS/ASA/ENAR meeting, Philadelphia, PA
  • Session organizer and chair, Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, San Francisco, CA
• 1992
  
  • Faculty sponsor, Department of Energy TRAC program
• 1990–1994
  
  • Bernoulli Society Committee on Statistics in the Physical Sciences
• 1991–present
  
  • Reviewer for National Aeronautics and Space Administration (Space Physics Division)
• 1991
  
  • Local organizer and session chair, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Workshop on Statistical Methods in Imaging, Berkeley, CA
• 1989
  
  • Session organizer and chair, Bernoulli Society Satellite Meeting, Leuven, Belgium
• 1989–present
  
  • Reviewer for National Science Foundation (Atmospheric Sciences; Infrastructure; International Programs; Mathematical Sciences; Methodology, Measurement, and Statistics; Solar-Terrestrial Program; Statistics and Probability)

Foundations, Non-Profit Corporations, and Industry

• 2013–present
  
  • Board of Directors, Verified Voting Foundation
• 2011–present
  
  • Board of Advisors, Verified Voting Foundation
• 2010–2011
  
  • Technical Advisory Board, Clear Ballot Group
• 2007
  
  • Advisory Board, Facebar, Inc.
• 2000–2001
  
  • Technical Advisory Board, Cogit.com
• 2000–2002
  
  • National Advisory Board, eTextbooksOnline.com
  • Technical Advisory Board, Atomic Dog Publishing

Editorial Service

• 2012–present
  
  • Founding Steering Committee and Editorial Board, USENIX Journal of Election Technology and Systems (JETS)
• 2011–present
  
  • Editor, Frontiers in Statistics and Probability (Springer)
• 2008
  
  • Guest Editor, Inverse Problems
• 1998–1999
  
  • Editor, Statistical Science
• 1997–2000
  
  • Editorial Board, Inverse Problems
• 1994–1998
  
  • Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research

Referee Service

1. American Association for the Advancement of Science
2. American Mathematical Monthly
3. Annales Geophysicae
4. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
5. Annals of Statistics
6. Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
7. Astrophysical Journal
8. Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
9. Cambridge University Press
10. Chapman-Hall
11. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis
12. Electronic Journal of Statistics
13. Geophysical Journal International
14. Geophysical Research Letters
15. Geophysics
16. Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
17. HarperCollins
18. IEEE Journal on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
19. IEEE Journal on Information Theory
20. Inverse Problems
21. Inverse Problems and Imaging
22. Journal of the American Statistical Association
23. Journal of Computational Physics
24. Journal of Economic Literature
25. Journal of Geophysical Research
26. Jurimetrics
27. Nature
28. Nature Climate Change
29. Political Analysis
30. Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
31. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
32. Science
33. SIAM Review
34. Simon and Schuster
35. Springer-Verlag
36. Statistics, Politics, and Policy
37. Statistical Science
38. Tectonophysics

University Service

• 2012–2013
  
  • Chair, Department of Statistics
  • Commission on the Future of the UC Berkeley Library http://academic-senate.berkeley.edu/issues/commission-future-uc-berkeley-library
  • Faculty Advisory Committee, Berkeley Resource Center for Online Education (BRCOE)
  • Engineering Science Advisory Committee, College of Engineering, UC Berkeley
  • Program Advisory Committee, Doctor of Business Administration Program, Lincoln University
  • Member, Berkeley Science Network http://bsn.berkeley.edu
• 2011–2012
  
  • Acting Department Chair, Department of Statistics, July–August
  • Vice Chair, Department of Statistics
  • Academic Senate Alternate Representative to University of California Systemwide Assembly
  • Academic Senate Committee on Academic Planning and Resource Allocation (CAPRA)
  • Campus Committee on Classroom Policy and Management (CCCPM)
  • Business Resumption Coordination Group (BRCG)
  • Program Advisory Committee, Doctor of Business Administration Program, Lincoln University
• 2010–2011
  
  • Academic Senate Committee on Academic Planning and Resource Allocation (CAPRA)
  • Campus Committee on Classroom Policy and Management (CCCPM)
  • Course Note-Taking Taskforce (http://campuspol.chance.berkeley.edu/policies/coursenotes.pdf)
  • Ad hoc tenure/promotion committee
  • Program Advisory Committee, Doctor of Business Administration Program, Lincoln University
• 2009–2010
  
  • Academic Senate Committee on Computing and Communications (COMP)
• 2007–2008
  
  • Undergraduate Student Learning Initiative Faculty Advisory Committee
• 2005–present
  
  • Faculty Athletic Fellow
• 2004–2005
  
  • Chair, Educational Technology Committee
  • e-Berkeley Steering Committee
  • e-Berkeley Committee of Chairs
  • e-Berkeley Implementation Task Force
  • CourseWeb Steering Committee
  • Faculty Athletic Fellow
• 2003–2004
  
  • Chair, Educational Technology Committee
  • e-Berkeley Steering Committee
  • e-Berkeley Implementation Task Force
  • Student Systems Policy Committee
  • CourseWeb Steering Committee
• 2002–2003
  
  • Faculty Assistant in Educational Technology (to Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education)
  • Chair, Educational Technology Committee
  • Provost’s Academic Council
  • e-Berkeley Steering Committee
  • e-Berkeley Implementation Task Force
  • Campus Committee on Classroom Policy and Management (CCCPM)
  • Student Systems Policy Committee
  • e-Berkeley Symposium Program Committee
  • Faculty Search Committee, Graduate School of Education
  • CourseWeb Steering Committee
• 2001–2002
  
  • Faculty Assistant in Educational Technology (to Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education)
  • Chair, Educational Technology Committee
  • Provost’s Academic Council
  • e-Berkeley Steering Committee
  • e-Berkeley Implementation Task Force
  • Campus Committee on Classroom Policy and Management (CCCPM)
  • Academic Senate Committee on Academic Planning and Resource Allocation (CAPRA)
  • CITRIS II Program Committee
  • TeleBEARS and Bear Facts Committees (combined into Student Systems Policy Committee as of 3/2002)
  • e-Berkeley Portal Working Group
  • Faculty search committee, Graduate School of Education
• 2000–2001
  
  • Space Allocation and Capital Improvements (SACI)
  • Academic Senate Committee on Academic Planning and Resource Allocation (CAPRA)
  • CAPRA Subcommittee on Expanded Enrollment
  • CAPRA Subcommittee on changes to Academic Coordinator title
  • Ad hoc hiring/tenure committee
• 1999–2000
  
  • Space Allocation and Capital Improvements (SACI)
  • Academic Senate Library Committee (LIBR)
  • Academic Senate Committee on Academic Planning and Resource Allocation (CAPRA), Physical Planning Subcommittee, ex officio representative from Library Committee
  • Academic Effects Study Committee, Molecular Engineering Building
  • Ad hoc tenure/promotion committee
  • SACI subcommittee to audit space in Barrows Hall
• 1998–1999
  
  • Space Allocation and Capital Improvements (SACI)
  • Electronic Dissertations Project
  • Planning Space for the Physical Sciences Libraries
• 1997–1998
  
  • Ad hoc tenure/promotion committee
• 1996
  
  • Review of College of Science, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
• 1994–1999
  
  • University review committee for Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics, University of California, Berkeley
• 1993–1995
  
  • Physical Sciences Division committee for Graduate Affirmative Action and Retention
  • Physical Sciences Division committee for Science and Mathematics Academic Re-Training (SMART)

Contracts and Grants

1. PI, NASA Grant NAG 5-883, “Constructing Core Fields Consistent with Geomagnetic Data and Geophysical Constraints,” 1987–1990.
2. Project Director and PI, NSF Grant DMS-8810192, “Inference in Curved-Ray Tomography: Solid Earth Structure,” 1989–1992.
3. PI, NSF Grant INT-9205103, “Long and Medium-Term Research: Inference in Seismological Investigations of Subducting Lithosphere,” 1992–1994.
4. PI, NSF Grant DMS-930006P, “Estimating the Sun’s Internal Angular Velocity from Free-Oscillation Frequency Splittings,” 1993–1994.
5. PI, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award DMS-8957573, 1989–1995.
6. Co-I, NASA Grant NAG5-2438, “The Analysis of Cobe DMR Sky Maps,” 1993–1994. PI: J. Silk
7. PI, NASA Grant NAGW-2515, “New Methods for Inversion and Analysis of Solar Free-Oscillation Data,” 1991–1995.
8. PI, NSF Grant DMS-9404276, “New Methods for Inference From COBE Data,” 1994–1997.
9. PI, NSF Grant AST-9504410, “Function Estimation and Inference in Helioseismology,” 1995–1998.
10. PI, LLNL/IGPP Grant 97-AP028, “Helioseismology with Solar Luminosity Constraints,” 1996–1997.
11. Co-I, NASA Grant NAG5-3941, “Development of data analysis, compression and visualization tools for large data sets in astrophysics and cosmology,” 1997–1998. PI: J. Silk
12. PI, NASA Grant NRA-96-09-OSS-034SOHO, “Modern Statistical Methods for Helioseismic Spectrum Estimation,” 1997–1998.
13. PI, NASA Grant NAG 5-3919, “Data Sampling Rate Reduction for the Oersted Satellite,” 1997–1998.
14. PI, UC Berkeley Classroom Technologies Grant, “Statistics Statim,” 1997–1998.
15. Co-I, NSF Grant DMS-9872979,”KDI: Computational Challenges in Cosmology,” 1998–2000. PI: A. Jaffe.
16. Co-I, NSF Grant IIS-98-17353, “Re-Inventing Scholarly Information Dissemination and Use,” 4/1/1999–3/31/2004. PI: R. Wilensky and D. Forsythe.
17. PI, Hewlett Packard Company Grant 89293, “Applied Mobile Technology Solutions in Learning Environments,” 3/19/2003–8/31/2004. Status report:
    http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Grants/hp89293.htm
18. PI, Hewlett Packard Company Grant 14928, “Applied Mobile Technology Solutions in Learning Environments—2004 Extension Grant,” 4/1/2004–6/30/2005.
19. PI, LLNL Grant B565605, “Uncertainty in Complex Simulations,” 4/3/2007–9/30/2007.
20. PI, LLNL Grant B585264, “Uncertainty Quantification with Applications to Climate Modeling,” 11/3/2009–9/30/2010.
21. PI, Genentech Inc. Grant 008485, “Measuring Glucose with NIR,” 2/24/2010–10/31/2010.
22. Co-I, NSF Grant DUE-1060487, “S-STEM Berkeley Science Network Scholarship Program,” 3/1/2011–2/28/2015.
23. PI, State of Colorado U.S. Election Assistance Commission subaward UC01, 2010 Pre-Election Logic and Accuracy Testing and Post-Election Audit Initiative, 5/23/2011–4/23/2013.
24. PI, State of California Election Assistance Commission subaward 10I10066, Post Election Risk-Limiting Audit Pilot Program, 9/13/2011–4/23/2013.
25. PI, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation Grant OPP1077697, “An Introductory Statistics MOOC With Field-Tested Online Assessments,” 12/20/2012–7/31/2013.

Consulting and Expert Witness Experience

• Baker & McKenzie LLP, New York, NY: sampling and uncertainty quantification (client Nuclear Electric Insurance Limited, NEIL)
• Bartlit Beck Herman Palenchar & Scott LLP, Denver, CO: intellectual property litigation (client Tessera)
• Bramson, Plutzik, Mahler & Birkhaeuser LLP, Walnut Creek, CA: consumer class action litigation
• Brinks, Hofer, Gilson & Lione: intellectual property litigation (clients R.J. Reynolds, Actavis)
• Capital One: economic modeling and risk management; intellectual property litigation; credit loss forecasting
• Carey and Carey, Palo Alto, CA: equal protection, civil litigation
• CIBC: economic modeling and risk management
• Cisco Systems: predicting email spool fill
• City of Santa Rosa, CA: water treatment monitoring
• Cogit.com, San Francisco, CA: Technical advisory board; data mining, targeted web advertising
• Contra Costa County Public Defender, Richmond, CA: equal protection
• Crosby, Heafey, Roach, & May, Oakland, CA: insurance litigation (client Farmer’s Insurance)
• East Bay Municipal Utilities District: water treatment monitoring
• EEG Systems Laboratory, San Francisco, CA: inverse problems for electrical activity of the brain
• eTextbooksOnline.com, New York, NY: National Advisory board
• Farella Braun + Martel LLP, San Francisco, CA: sampling and estimation in litigation
• Federal Trade Commission, San Francisco, CA: sampling in litigation
• Folger, Levin & Kahn, LLP, San Francisco, CA: sampling and risk management in litigation (client California Self-Insurers’ Security Fund)
• Fuller-Austin Joint Defense Group: modeling in litigation
• GMAC Financial Services: economic modeling and risk management
• Habeas Corpus Resource Center, San Francisco, CA: bias in jury selection
• Howard, Rice, Nemerovski, Canady, Falk, & Rabkin, San Francisco, CA: sampling in litigation; inference from retail sales data (clients K-Mart Corp., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Co.)
• Howrey LLP, East Palo Alto, CA: sampling in litigation (client Apple Inc.)
• HSBC: economic modeling and risk management
• Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Redwood City, CA: clinical trials in oncology
• Kipling Law Group, Seattle, WA: sampling in litigation (client AT&T Wireless)
• KLA Instruments Corporation, San Jose, CA: calibration of algorithms to detect IC mask flaws
• Kramer, Levin, Naftalis, & Frankel, New York, NY: sampling in litigation
• Latham & Watkins, LLP, Menlo Park, CA, and San Francisco, CA: sampling in consumer class action litigation (clients Apple Inc., Silver Spring Networks)
• Law Offices of Gorman & Miller, San Jose, CA: trade secret litigation
• Law Offices of Ilson W. New, San Francisco, CA: natural resource legislation (client California Abalone Association)
• Law Offices of Ramirez, Tollner, Stebbins, Bahrick, & Sasseen, San Jose, CA: trade secret litigation
• Law Offices of Welebir & McCune, Woodside, CA: product liability litigation
• Law Offices of Wells, Pinckney & McHugh, Austin, TX: employment discrimination arbitration
• Law Offices of Wolkin & Timpane, San Francisco, CA: insurance litigation
• Law Offices of Scott K. Zimmerman, Brentwood, CA: product liability litigation
• Life Chiropractic College West, Hayward, CA: experimental design
• Littler Mendelson, P.C., Dallas, TX, Los Angeles, CA, and San Francisco, CA: sampling in employment wage and hour class action litigation
• Los Angeles Superior Court, Central District: sampling in employment wage and hour litigation
• Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chicago, IL: intellectual property litigation (client Capital One)
• Meyers Nave, Oakland, CA: election dispute litigation (client Novato Sanitary District)
• Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, CA: product liability class action litigation, causal inference in litigation (clients American Cemwood, Iovate Health Sciences)
• Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, San Francisco, CA and Los Angeles, CA: consumer class action litigation, intellectual property litigation, sampling (clients Verizon Wireless, Philip Morris, Tessera)
• Murphy & McGonigle, Washington, DC: risk management and credit loss forecasting (client Capital One)
• National Security Agency: adaptive filtering, combining expert opinions, digital communications, information retrieval, estimation
• National Solar Observatory, Tucson, AZ: spectrum estimation
• Albert A. Natoli, P.C., New York, NY: surveys in consumer class action litigation
• Nichols Kaster PLLP, Minneapolis, MN: sampling and damage estimation in consumer class action litigation
• Office of the Attorney General, State of California, Oakland, CA: sampling in litigation (client California Highway Patrol)
• Oracle: sampling and risk analysis
• Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco, CA: statistics and causal inference in litigation
• Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, Washington, DC: intellectual property litigation (client Capital One)
• Porter & Hedges, LLP, Houston, TX: sampling in litigation
• Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, CT: inverse problems, signal processing
• Shearman & Sterling, Washington, DC: survival analysis in litigation
• Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, San Francisco, CA: case-control studies in litigation
• Spriggs & Hollingsworth, Washington, DC: environmental litigation
• State of Illinois, Monroe County State’s Attorney, Waterloo, IL: evidence in capital prosecution
• St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Baltimore, MD: projecting tort liability
• Travis County, TX: design of auditable voting systems
• U.S. Attorney’s Office, Northern District of California: ethnic bias in grand jury selection
• U.S. Department of Agriculture, Washington, D.C.: fairness in lending, import restrictions and risk assessment
• U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C.: estimation and modeling
• U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Washington, D.C.: disparate impact of hurricane Katrina relief program
• U.S. Department of Justice, Civil Division, Federal Programs Branch, Washington, D.C.: sampling the Internet and testing Internet content filters; USDA import restrictions on cattle and beef; disparate racial impact in HUD disaster relief; fairness in lending; prevalence of “sexting” among young adults
• U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Martinez, CA: speech and non-speech hearing segregation in aging
• U.S. House of Representatives, Washington, D.C.: sampling to adjust the U.S. Census
• Weintraub Genshlea Chediak Law Corporation, Sacramento, CA: wage and hour class action litigation (client Tai Wah, Inc.)
• Wiegel Law Group, San Francisco, CA: sampling in class action litigation (client Trinity Management Services)
• Willoughby, Stuart & Bening, San Jose, CA: insurance litigation
• Zimmerman Reed, Scottsdale, AZ: consumer class action litigation

Recent Testimony (incomplete prior to 2003)

• October 2011. Buckheit vs. Dennis et al. (U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Case CV09-5000 JCS). Deposition.
• June 2010. Testimony before California State Senate Committee on Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments. Legislative hearing.
  http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/ab2023-senate-15-6-10.htm
• April 2010. Testimony before California State Assembly Committee on Elections and Redistricting. Legislative hearing.
  http://statistics.berkeley.edu/ stark/Preprints/ab2023-assembly-20-4-10.htm
• March 2010. Sharpley and Abeling vs. William Long, Novato Sanitary District et al. (State of California Superior Court, County of Marin, Case CIV 096368). Trial testimony.
• January 2010. Kastanos et al. vs. Central Concrete Supply Co., Inc. (State of California Superior Court, County of Alameda, Lead Case No. HG 07-319366). Trial testimony.
• June 2009. Star Scientific, Inc., vs. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. (U.S. District Court, Maryland District, Northern Division, Case Nos. MJG-01 1504 and MJG-02 2504). Trial testimony.
• May 2009. Star Scientific, Inc., vs. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. (U.S. District Court, Maryland District, Northern Division, Case Nos. MJG-01 1504 and MJG-02 2504). Deposition.
• July 2008. Coordination Proceeding Special Title (Rule 1550(b)) Cellphone Termination Fee Cases (State of California Superior Court, County of Alameda). Deposition.
• April 2008. Coordination Proceeding Special Title (Rule 1550(b)) Cellphone Termination Fee Cases (State of California Superior Court, County of Alameda). Deposition.
• August 2007. Self-Insurers’ Security Fund vs. Gallagher Bassett Services, Inc. (U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Case No. C 06-02828 JSW). Deposition.
• March 2007. Peter Wachtell vs. Capital One Financial Corporation and Capital One Services, Inc. (U.S. District Court, District of Idaho, Case No. CIV03-267-S-MHW). Deposition.
• November 2006. Coordination Proceeding Special Title (Rule 1550(b)) Cellphone Termination Fee Cases (State of California Superior Court, County of Alameda). Deposition.
• November 2006. ACLU vs. Gonzales (U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Civil Action No. 98-5591). Trial testimony.
• August 2006. ACLU vs. Gonzales (U.S. District Court, Eastern District of Pennsylvania, Civil Action No. 98-5591). Deposition.
• December 2004. Star Scientific, Inc., vs. R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, et al. (U.S. District Court, Maryland District, Northern Division, Case Nos. MJG-01 1504 and MJG-02 2504). Trial testimony.
• December 2003. Richison et al. vs. American Cemwood Corporation (State of California Superior Court, San Joaquin County, Case No. 005532). Trial testimony.
• December 2003. Pacific Gas and Electric Co. vs. City and County of San Francisco (U.S. District Court, Northern District of California, Case No. C99-2071 VRW). Deposition.
• May 2003. Richison et al. vs. American Cemwood Corporation (State of California Superior Court, San Joaquin County, Case No. 005532). Deposition.
• May 1998. Testimony before the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census. Legislative hearing.
• 1997. Testimony before the State of California Senate Committee on Natural Resources. Legislative hearing.

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