Curriculum Vitae

Philip Bradford Stark

Biographical Information

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

Interests

Theory: Inverse problems, multiplicity, nonparametrics, optimization, restricted parameters
Applications: Astrophysics, cosmology, educational technology, geophysics, hearing, litigation, marketing, public policy, risk assessment and control

Education

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

Awards and Fellowships

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

Employment

7/98– Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
7/01–6/03 Faculty Assistant in Educational Technology (to Vice Provost for Undergraduate Education), University of California, Berkeley
6/96 Visiting Associate Professor, School of Mathematical Sciences, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
7/94–6/98 Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
7/88–6/94 Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
7/87–6/90 National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in Mathematical Sciences
1/87–6/87 Postgraduate Research, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
8/86–12/86 Postgraduate Research, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, UC San Diego

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

Stark, P.B. and C. Frohlich, 1985. The depths of the deepest deep Earthquakes, J. Geophys. Res., 90, 1859–1869.
Stark, P.B., R.L. Parker, G. Masters and J.A. Orcutt, 1986. Strict bounds on seismic velocity in the spherical Earth, J. Geophys. Res., 91, 13,892–13,902.
Stark, P.B. 1986. Travel-Time Inversion: Regularization and Inference, Ph.D. Thesis, Scripps Instution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, 106pp.
Stark, P.B. and R.L. Parker, 1987. Smooth profiles from tau (p) and X(p) data, Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 89, 2713–2719.
Stark, P.B. and R.L. Parker, 1987. Velocity bounds from statistical estimates of tau(p) and X(p), J. Geophys. Res., 92, 2713–2719.
Stark, P.B., 1987. Rigorous velocity bounds from soft tau (p) and X(p) data, Geophys. J. R. astr. Soc., 89, 987–996.
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. Geophys. J., 95, 209–212.
Stark, P.B. and R.L. Parker, 1988. Correction to "Velocity bounds from statistical estimates of tau(p) and X(p)." J. Geophys. Res., 93, 13,821–13,822.
Donoho, D.L. and P.B. Stark, 1989. Uncertainty principles and signal recovery. SIAM J. Appl. Math., 49, 906–931.
Stark, P.B., 1992. Affine minimax confidence intervals for a bounded Normal mean, Statistics and Probability Letters, 13, 39–44.
Stark, P.B., 1992. Minimax confidence intervals in geomagnetism, Geophys. J. Intl., 108, 329–338.
Stark, P.B., 1992. Inference in infinite-dimensional inverse problems: Discretization and duality, J. Geophys. Res., 97, 14,055–14,082.
Donoho, D.L. and P.B. Stark, 1993. A note on rearrangements, spectral concentration, and the zero-order prolate spheroidal wavefunction. IEEE-IT, 39, 257–260.
Pulliam, R.J. and P.B. Stark, 1993. Bumps on the core-mantle boundary: Are they facts or artifacts?, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 1943–1956.
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, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 1957–1972.
Stark, P.B., 1993. Uncertainty of the COBE quadrupole detection, Ap. J. Lett., 408, L73–L76.
Stark, P.B. and D.I. Nikolayev, 1993. Toward tubular tomography, J. Geophys. Res., 98, 8095–8106.
Constable, C.G., R.L. Parker and P.B. Stark, 1993. Geomagnetic field models incorporating frozen-flux constraints, Geophys. J. Intl., 113, 419–433.
Gough, D.O. and P.B. Stark, 1993. Are the 1986–1988 changes in solar free-oscillation frequency splitting significant?, Ap. J., 415, 376–382.
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.
Pulliam, R.J. and P.B. Stark, 1994. Confidence regions for mantle heterogeneity, J. Geophys. Res., 99, 6931–6943.
Genovese, C.R., P.B. Stark and M.J. Thompson, 1995. Uncertainties for Two-Dimensional Models of Solar Rotation from Helioseismic Eigenfrequency Splitting, Ap. J., 443, 843–854.
Stark, P.B. and R.L. Parker, 1995. Bounded-variable least-squares: an algorithm and applications, Comput. Stat., 10, 129–141.
Hengartner, N.W. and P.B. Stark, 1995. Finite-sample confidence envelopes for shape-restricted densities, Ann. Stat., 23, 525–550.
Stark, P.B., 1995. Reply to Comment by Morelli and Dziewonski, J. Geophys. Res., 100, 15,399–15,402.
Gough, D.O., T. Sekii, and P.B. Stark, 1996. Inferring spatial variation of solar properties from helioseismic data, Ap. J., 459, 779–791.
Benjamini, Y. and Stark, P.B., 1996. Non-equivariant simultaneous confidence intervals less likely to contain zero, J. Am. Stat. Assoc., 91, 329–337.
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.
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.
Stark, P.B., 1996. A few considerations for ascribing statistical significance to earthquake predictions, Geophys. Res. Lett., 23, 1399–1402.
Evans, S.N., and P.B. Stark, 1996. Shrinkage estimators, Skorokhod's problem, and stochastic integration by parts, Ann. Stat., 24, 809–815.
Genovese, C.R. and P.B. Stark, 1996. Data Reduction and Statistical Consistency in Linear Inverse Problems, Phys. Earth Planet. Inter., 98, 143–162.
Stark, P.B., 1997. Earthquake prediction: the null hypothesis, Geophys. J. Intl., 131, 495–499.
Benjamini, Y., Y. Hochberg, and P.B. Stark, 1998. Confidence Intervals with more Power to determine the Sign: Two Ends constrain the Means, J. Amer. Stat. Assoc., 93, 309–317.
Tenorio, L., P.B. Stark, and C.H. Lineweaver, 1999. Bigger uncertainties and the Big Bang, Inverse Problems, 15, 329–341.
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.
Komm, R., Y. Gu, P.B. Stark, and I. Fodor, 1999. Multitaper Spectral Analysis and Wavelet Denoising Applied to Helioseismic Data, Astrophysical J., 519, 407–421.
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.
Fodor, I. and P.B. Stark, 2000. Multitaper Spectrum Estimation for Time Series with Gaps, IEEE Trans. Signal Processing, 48, 3472–3483.
Freedman, D.A., P.B. Stark, and K.W. Wachter, 2001. A probability model for census adjustment, Mathematical Population Studies, 9, 165–180.
D.A. Freedman and P.B. Stark, 2001. The swine flu vaccine and Guillain-Barré syndrome. Law and Contemporary Problems, 64, 49–62.
Evans, S.N. and P.B. Stark, 2002. Inverse Problems as Statistics, Inverse Problems, 18, R1–R43. Invited.
Freedman, D.A. and P.B. Stark, 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)
Stark, P.B., 2003. Capture-recapture. Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA. Invited.
Stark, P.B., 2003. Census Adjustment. Encyclopedia of Social Science Research Methods, Sage Publications, Thousand Oaks, CA. Invited.
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.
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).
Divenyi, P., P.B. Stark, and K. Haupt, 2005. Decline of Speech Understanding and Auditory Thresholds in the Elderly, J. Acoustical Soc. Am., 118, 1089–1100.
Freedman, D.A. and P.B. Stark, 2005. Ecological correlation and the ecological fallacy. Encyclopedia of Law and Society, to appear. Invited.
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.
Stark, P.B., 2008. The effectiveness of Internet content filters, I/S: A Journal of Law and Policy for the Information Society, in press.
Stark, P.B., 2008. Conservative statistical post-election audits, The Annals of Applied Statistics, in press.
Stark, P.B., 2008. A Sharper Discrepancy Measure for Post-Election Audits, The Annals of Applied Statistics, in press.
Stark, P.B., 2008. Generalizing resolution. Submitted to Inverse Problems, in press. Invited.

Technical Reports and Unrefereed Publications

Stark, P.B., 1988. Strict bounds and applications. in Some Topics on Inverse Problems, P.C. Sabatier, ed., World Scientific, Singapore.
Donoho, D.L. and Stark, P.B., 1988. Rearrangements and Smoothing, Tech. Rept. 148, Dept. Stat., Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
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.
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.
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.
Hengartner, N.W. and P.B. Stark, 1992. Confidence bounds on the probability density of aftershocks, Tech. Rept. 352, Dept. Statistics, Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
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.
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.
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.
Stark, P.B., 1994. Simultaneous Confidence Intervals for Linear Estimates of Linear Functionals, Tech. Rept. 417, Dept. Statistics, Univ. Calif. Berkeley.
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.
Stark, P.B., 1997. Data Sampling Rate Reduction for the OERSTED Geomagnetic Satellite.
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.
Borrill, J., and P.B. Stark, 1998. A fast method for bounding the CMB power spectrum likelihood function.
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.
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.
Komm, R.W., E. Anderson, F. Hill, R. Howe, I. Fodor, and P. Stark, 1998. Multaper 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.
Stark, P.B., 1999. Letter to the Editor of USA Today regarding Sampling to Adjust the 2000 Census, 19 January. (original version)
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.
Stark, P.B., 1999. The 1990 and 2000 Census Adjustment Plans, Tech. Rept. 550, Dept. Statistics, Univ. Calif. Berkeley (revised May 2000)
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.
Stark, P.B., 2001. Review of Who Counts? by Margo J. Anderson and Stephen E. Fienberg, Journal of Economic Literature, XXXIX, 593–595. Invited.
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.
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
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

Manuscripts in review

Berlow, E.L., J.A. Dunne, N.D. Martinez, P.B. Stark, R.J Williams and U. Brose, 2008. Simplicity on the other side of ecological complexity. In review. Nature.

Working Drafts

Stark, P.B., 2008. Election audits by sampling with probability proportional to an error bound: dealing with discrepancies, working draft.

Online Documents

SticiGui^©: Statistics Tools for Internet and Classroom Instruction with a Graphical User Interface. www.stat.berkeley.edu/~stark/SticiGui
Testimony before U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census, 5 May 1998.
Response to 25 Questions from Representative C. Maloney, Ranking Minority Member, U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census, 13 May 1998.

Software

Stark, P.B., and R.L. Parker, 1994. BVLS (Bounded-Variable Least Squares), STATLIB (Carnegie-Mellon University ftp server)
Java Applets for Statistics
Miscellaneous software

Invited Presentations

(The text of some recent seminars is available online)

2008

Election Auditing: How Much Is Enough?, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute, Annual Meeting of Academic Sponsors and Steering Committee, Berkeley, CA, 7 March.

2007

Panelist, 2007 Post Election Audit Summit, Minneapolis, MN, 25–27 October.

Frequentist Methods in Inverse Problems, Sandia CSRI Workshop on Large-Scale Inverse Problems and Quantification of Uncertainty, Santa Fe, NM, 10–12 September.

How Statistics Helps, 9th US Congress on Computational Mechanics, San Francisco, CA, 22–26 July.

2006

Measuring Resolution in Nonlinear and Constrained Inverse Problems, Workshop on Statistical Inverse Problems, Institute for Mathematical Stochastics, Göttingen, Germany, 23–25 March.

2005

Resolution in Nonlinear and Constrained Inverse Problems, Workshop on Computational and Mathematical Geoscience, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, 15–17 June.

2004

Quantifying uncertainty in inverse problems, Summer school: Mathematical Geophysics and Uncertainty in Earth Models, Colorado School of Mines, Golden CO, 14–25 June 2004.
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.

2003

Quantifying uncertainty in inverse problems, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics (IPAM) Conference on Statistical Methods for Inverse Problems, 5–6 November, IPAM, Los Angeles, CA
Using what we know: inference with physical constraints, PhyStat 2003: Statistical Problems in Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology, 8–10 September, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Stanford, CA

2002

Statistical Approaches to Inverse Problems. Danish Interdisciplinary Inversion Group Seminars on Inverse Problems: Insight and Algorithms. Niels Bohr Institute, Copenhagen University, 27–29 May, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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, 19 March, Minneapolis, MN.
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, 17–19 February, Vicksburg, MS.

2001

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, 26–27 October, Berkeley, CA.
Inverse Problems and Data Errors, New Developments in Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics, Chateau de Mons, 25–29 June, Caussens, France.
Data Reduction and Inverse Problems in Helioseismology, Workshop "Statistics of inverse problems," Institut Henri Poincaré, 28–29 May, Paris, France.
Why Statistics is worth the Stigma, Letters and Sciences Faculty Forum, 23 April, University of California, Berkeley
Inverse Problems in Helioseismology, Second MaPhySto Workshop on Inverse Problems: Inverse problems from a Statistical Perspective, 28–31 March, Aalborg, Denmark

2000

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.
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.
Invited Discussant, Workshop of the National Academy of Sciences Panel to Review the 2000 Census, Washington, D.C., 2–3 February.

1999

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.
Lecturer, Mathematical Geophysics Summer School, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 2–20 August.
Less Asymptotic Tomography. 9th SOHO Workshop: Helioseismic Diagnostics of Solar Convection and Activity, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 12–15 July.
Panelist, Reinventing Undergraduate Education: Technology Enhanced Learning in the Sciences, Math, and Engineering, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 23 April.
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.
Sampling to Adjust the U.S. Census. Miller Institute for Basic Research in Science, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 12 January.

1998

A Statistician's Perspective on Census Adjustment, Berkeley Breakfast Club, Berkeley, CA, 5 December.
SticiGui^©: Melts in your Browser, not in your Brain, Joint Berkeley-Stanford Statistics Colloquium, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, 27 October.
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.
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.
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.
Uncertainties for functions from incomplete, erroneous data. NSF/DOE Workshop on Uncertainty in Modeling, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA, 11–12 June.
Sampling to adjust the 1990 Census for Undercount. U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census, May.
Sounding the Sun: Helioseismology. 1998 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Annual Meeting and Science Innovation Exposition, Philadelphia, PA., February.

1997

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.
Solving Problems for a Large Statistics Lecture Course using a Website UC Berkeley Academic Senate Workshop on Classroom Technology, Berkeley, CA.
Deficiencies of the simple theories, Local Helioseismology Workshop, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, England.

1996

CMB's, Royal Astronomical Society Ordinary Meeting, London, England.
The Null Hypothesis, Royal Astronomical Society and Joint Associations for Geophysics discussion meeting on Assessment of Schemes for Earthquake Prediction, London, England.
On the consistency of multiple inference in inverse problems using l_p confidence sets, International Conference on Multiple Comparisons, Tel Aviv, Israel.

1995

Confidence Intervals in Inverse Problems, Conference in Honor of George Backus, Institute for Geophysics and Planetary Physics, La Jolla, CA
The Need for Wave-Equation Travel-Time Tomography, Institute for Mathematics and Its Applications, Conference on Tomography, Minneapolis, MN
Inference, Prior Information, and Misfit Measures, Interdisciplinary Inversion Conference on Methodology, Computation and Integrated Applications, University of Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Optimization and Inference in Travel-Time Seismology, National Research Council Board on Mathematical Sciences Symposium on Mathematical Sciences in Seismology, Washington, DC
Prior Information and Confidence Intervals in Inverse Problems, International Union of Geodesy and Geophysics Meeting, Boulder, CO
Something AGAINST Nothing: A Confidence Game, Joint Statistical Meetings of the American Statistical Association, International Biometric Society, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Orlando, FL
Uncertainties in Travel-Time Seismology, SIAM/GAMM Symposium on Inverse Problems: Geophysical Applications, Fish Camp, CA

1994

Toward Tubular Tomography, 27th General Assembly of the Int. Assoc. of Seismology and Phys. of the Earth's Inter. (IASPEI), Wellington, New Zealand
Alternative Data Analysis Techniques, Global Oscillation Network Group annual meeting, Los Angeles, CA (presented by C. Genovese due to illness).
Mathematical Aspects of Integral Equation Inversion, Global Oscillation Network Group workshop, Sydney, Australia.

1993

Conservative Finite-Sample Confidence Envelopes for Monotone and Unimodal Densities, Mathematisches Forschungsinstitut Oberwolfach meeting on Curves, Images and Massive Computation, Oberwolfach, Germany
Invited Discussant, Joint IMS/ASA/ENAR Meeting, Philadelphia, PA
Uncertainty of the Quadrupole Component of the Cosmic Microwave Background, Israel Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Tel Aviv
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

1992

Conservative Numerical Uncertainty Estimates in Inverse Problems, SIAM 40th Anniversary Meeting, Los Angeles, CA

1991

Minimax Estimation in Geomagnetism, European Geophysical Society Annual Meeting, Wiesbaden, Germany
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
Imagining Earth's Interior: Controversies in Seismology and Geomagnetism, Mathematical Sciences Research Institute Workshop on Statistical Methods in Imaging, Berkeley, CA

1990

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
Inference in Infinite-Dimensional Inverse Problems, Schmitt Institute for Physics of the Earth, Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Moscow
Inference in Infinite-Dimensions: Discretization and Duality, Israel Statistical Association Annual Meeting, Jerusalem
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

1989

Sparsity-Constrained Deconvolution, International Union of Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO
Invited Discussant. Statistics, Earth and Space Sciences Meeting of the Bernoulli Society, Leuven, Belgium
Rigorous Computer Solutions to Infinite-Dimensional Inverse Problems, rcp 264 problemes inverses, Montpellier, France

1988

Duality and Discretization Error, Conference on Mathematical Geophysics, Blanes, Spain

1987

Spectral extrapolation with positivity, International Union of Radio Science Meeting, Boulder, CO

1986

Travel-Time Constraints on Core Structure, Special Session on Geophysics of the Core and Core-Mantle Boundary, American Geophysical Union Spring Meeting, Baltimore, MD
Smooth Models from tau(p) and X(p) Data, Scripps Industrial Associates Short Course on Inverse Theory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA

Other invited seminars

California State University, Chico (Mathematics 1993)
Colorado School of Mines (Dept. of Mathematical and Computer Sciences, 1997)
Copenhagen University (Niels Bohr Institute for Astronomy, Physics, and Geophysics 1996)
Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Statistics 1993)
National Solar Observatory (1997)
Naval Postgraduate School (Operations Research, 2001)
Reed College (Department of Mathematics, 2007)
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)
The Technion (Statistics 1987)
Tel-Aviv University (Geology and Geophysics 1988, 1991; Statistics 1991)
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)
University of California, Davis (Statistics 1995, 2006; Mathematics 2000)
University of California, Los Angeles (Mathematics 1992; Statistics 2000)
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 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 of Research

Checking It Twice, Julie J. Rehmeyer, Science News, 19 January 2008. (Election auditing)
Internet is 99 per cent porn free, Iain Thomson, vnunet.com, 15 November 2006. (Internet content filtering)
Internet Content Filters Fail to Block Sexually Explicit Material, Thomas Claburn, InformationWeek, 14 November 2006. (Internet content filtering)
1 percent of Web sites deemed pornographic, Maryclaire Dale, Associated Press, 14 November 2006. (Internet content filtering)
Only 1 percent of Web pages have porn?, Declan McCullagh, News.com, 14 November 2006. (Internet content filtering)
U.S., Google Set to Face Off in Court, Michael Liedtke, Associated Press, 14 March 2006. (Internet content filtering)
In Case About Google's Secrets, Yours Are Safe, Adam Liptak, New York Times, 26 January 2006. (Internet content filtering)

Media Appearances

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]
ABC 7 News story on census adjustment, 30 November 1998
KQED-FM Forum program on the 2000 Census, San Francisco, CA, 17 July 1998

Graduate Advising

Former Students and Postdocs

Graduate Committees

Bar-Yossef, Ziv, Computer Science. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2001; dissertation committee, "The Complexity of Massive Data Set Computations," 2002
Bein, Ed, Biostatistics. MA examination, 2002
Berny, Axel Dominique, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2004; dissertation committee, "Analysis and Design of Wideband LC VCOs," 2006
Bodik, Peter, Computer Science. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2007
Bowman, John Penfield, IEOR. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2003
Bunn, Emory Freeman, Physics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1994; dissertation committee, "Statistical Analysis of Cosmic Microwave Background Anisotropy," 1995
Burstein, Richard David II, Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2004; dissertation committee, $quot;Hadamard Subfactors of Bisch-Haagerup Type," 2008.
Buttrey, Samuel Edward, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1994; dissertation committee, "Nearest-Neighbor Classification with Categorical Variables," 1996
Calef, Brandoch Hugh, Applied Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1997; dissertation committee, "Optimal Sampling of the Discrete Fourier Transform," 2002
Charman, Andrew Emile, Physics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2003; dissertation committee, "Random Aspects of Beam Physics and Laser-Plasma Interactions," 2006
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
Chien, Georgs, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1998
Feldman, Arnold R., EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1995; dissertation committee, "High-Speed, Low-Power Sigma-Delta Modulators for RF Baseband Channel Applications," 1997
Fodor, Imola K., Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1997; chair, dissertation committee, "Spectrum Estimation in Helioseismology," 1999
Fong, Keng Leong, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1996; dissertation committee, "Design and Optimization Techniques for Monolithic RF Downconversion Mixers," 1997
Gawiser, Eric Joseph, Physics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1998.
Genovese, Christopher Ralph, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1992; chair, dissertation committee, "Statistical Problems in Helioseismology," 1994
Gung, Yuan-Cheng, Geophysics. Dissertation committee, "Q Tomography of the Earth Mantle," 2003
Hansen, Bendek, Statistics. Chair, MA thesis committee, "Minimax Expected Length Confidence Intervals," 2000
Hansen, Mark Henry, Statistics. Chair, Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1992
Hengartner, Niklaus Walther, Statistics. Co-chair, dissertation committee, "Topics in Density Estimation," 1993
Huang, Hsiang-Ping, Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1996
Huang, Jianhua, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1994; dissertation committee, "Topics in Extended Linear Modeling," 1997
Huang, Yuanlin, Civil Engineering. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1993, 1994
Jiang, Xuesong, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2001
Jones, David Morgan, Mathematics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1994; dissertation committee, "On Modular Galois Representations in Characteristic 3," 1998
Katsis, Dimitrios, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2005
Kiesling, Max Karl, Civil Engineering. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1994
Li, Bo, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2004
Luen, Bradley, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2006; Chair, dissertation committee
Madar, Vered, Mathematics and Statistics, Tel Aviv University. MA thesis committee, "Non-equivariant confidence intervals," 2002
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
Murmann, Boris, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2002; dissertation committee, "Digital Calibration for Low-Power High-Performance A/D Conversion," 2003
Ou, Jeffrey Jiajiunn, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1995
Petkov, Vladimir Plamenov, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2003
Poobuapheun, Nuntachai, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2005; dissertation committee Pulliam, R. Jay, Geophysics. Ph.D. dissertation committee, "Imaging Earth's Interior: Tomographic Inversion of Mantle P-Wave Velocity Structure," 1991
Rein, Steven Richard, Statistics. Chair, Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1990
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
Son, Sang Won, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2000; dissertation committee, "High Dynamic Range CMOS Mixer Design," 2002
Suzuki, Toru, Demography. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1995; dissertation committee, "Projection of Households in Japan with a Dynamic Macro-Simulation Model," 1999
Tee, Luns, EECS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2001
Tenorio, Luis-Francisco, Mathematics. Ph.D. dissertation committee, "Asymptotic Dynamics of Locally Oblique Solitary Wave Soltuions of the KP Equation," 1992
To, Albert Chi Fu, Statistics. MA committee, 2005
Wagner, Tim Allen, CS. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1995; dissertation committee, "Practical Algorithms for Incremental Software Development Environments," 1997
Wicks, Charles Wesley Jr., Geophysics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1990; dissertation committee, "An Investigation of Mantle Discontinuities Beneath the Southwest Pacific," 1994
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
Zhang, Xiaoyan, Statistics. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 1997
Zagheni, Emilio, Demography. Ph.D. qualifying examination, 2008

Service

Professional Societies and Government Agencies

2007: California Secretary of State Post-Election Audit Standards Working Group
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: 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–: 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, Solar-Terrestrial Program, Statistics and Probability)

Private Industry

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

1998–1999: Editor, Statistical Science
1997–2000: Editorial Board, Inverse Problems
1994–1998: Associate Editor, Journal of Geophysical Research

Referee Service

American Association for the Advancement of Science
Annales Geophysicae
Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics
Annals of Statistics
Arabian Journal for Science and Engineering
Bulletin of the Seismological Society of America
Cambridge University Press
Chapman-Hall
Electronic Journal of Statistics
Geophysical Journal International
Geophysical Research Letters
Geophysics
Geophysical & Astrophysical Fluid Dynamics
HarperCollins
IEEE Journal on Acoustics, Speech and Signal Processing
IEEE Journal on Information Theory
Inverse Problems
Inverse Problems and Imaging
Journal of the American Statistical Association
Journal of Computational Physics
Journal of Economic Literature
Journal of Geophysical Research
Jurimetrics
Nature
Physics of the Earth and Planetary Interiors
Science
SIAM Review
Simon and Schuster
Springer-Verlag
Tectonophysics

University Service

2007–2008: Undergraduate Student Learning Initiative Faculty Advisory Committee
2005–2006: 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)

Grants

PI, NASA Grant NAG 5-883, "Constructing Core Fields Consistent with Geomagnetic Data and Geophysical Constraints," 1987–1990.
Project Director and PI, NSF Grant DMS-8810192, "Inference in Curved-Ray Tomography: Solid Earth Structure," 1989–1992.
PI, NSF Grant INT-9205103, "Long and Medium-Term Research: Inference in Seismological Investigations of Subducting Lithosphere," 1992–1994.
PI, NSF Grant DMS-930006P, "Estimating the Sun's Internal Angular Velocity from Free-Oscillation Frequency Splittings," 1993–1994.
PI, NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award DMS-8957573, 1989–1995.
Co-I, NASA Grant NAG5-2438, "The Analysis of Cobe DMR Sky Maps," 1993–1994. PI: J. Silk
PI, NASA Grant NAGW-2515, "New Methods for Inversion and Analysis of Solar Free-Oscillation Data," 1991–1995.
PI, NSF Grant DMS-9404276, "New Methods for Inference From COBE Data," 1994–1997.
PI, NSF Grant AST-9504410, "Function Estimation and Inference in Helioseismology," 1995–1998.
PI, LLNL/IGPP Grant 97-AP028, "Helioseismology with Solar Luminosity Constraints," 1996–1997.
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
PI, NASA Grant NRA-96-09-OSS-034SOHO, "Modern Statistical Methods for Helioseismic Spectrum Estimation," 1997–1998.
PI, NASA Grant NAG 5-3919, "Data Sampling Rate Reduction for the Oersted Satellite," 1997–1998.
PI, UC Berkeley Classroom Technologies Grant, "Statistics Statim," 1997–1998.
Co-I, NSF Grant DMS-9872979,"KDI: Computational Challenges in Cosmology," 1998–2000. PI: A. Jaffe.
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.
PI, Hewlett Packard Company Grant 89293, "Applied Mobile Technology Solutions in Learning Environments," 3/19/2003–8/31/2004. (status report)
PI, Hewlett Packard Company Grant 14928, "Applied Mobile Technology Solutions in Learning Environments—2004 Extension Grant," 4/1/2004–6/30/2005.
PI, LLNL Grant B565605, "Uncertainty in Complex Simulations," 4/3/2007–9/30/2007.

Consulting

Bramson, Plutzik, Mahler & Birkhaeuser LLP, Walnut Creek, CA: consumer class action litigation.
Brinks, Hofer, Gilson & Lione: intellectual property litigation (client R.J. Reynolds).
Capital One: economic modeling and risk management; intellectual property 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.
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.).
HSBC: economic modeling and risk management.
Kaiser Permanente Northern California, Redwood City, CA: clinical trials in oncology.
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: sampling in litigation.
Law Offices of Gorman & Miller, San Jose, CA: trade secret litigation.
Law Offices of Ilson W. New, San Francisco, CA: natural resource legislation.
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 and Los Angeles, CA: sampling in employment wage and hour litigation.
Los Angeles Superior Court, Central District: sampling in employment wage and hour litigation.
Mayer, Brown, Rowe & Maw, Chigago, IL: intellectual property litigation.
Morrison & Foerster, San Francisco, CA: product liability class action litigation.
Munger, Tolles & Olson, LLP, San Francisco, CA: consumer class action litigation (client Verizon Wireless).
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.
Pacific Gas & Electric Co., San Francisco, CA: statistics and causal inference in litigation.
Paul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLP, Washington, DC: intellectual property litigation.
Schlumberger-Doll Research, Ridgefield, CT: inverse problems, signal processing.
Shearman & Sterling, Washington, DC: survival analysis.
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, San Francisco, CA: case-control studies.
Spriggs & Hollingsworth, Washington, DC: environmental litigation.
St. Paul Fire and Marine Insurance Company, Baltimore, MD: projecting tort liability.
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.
U.S. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census, Washington, D.C.: estimation and modeling.
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.
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.
Willoughby, Stuart & Bening, San Jose, CA: insurance litigation.
Zimmerman Reed, Scottsdale, AZ: consumer class action litigation.

Recent deposition and trial testimony

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 v. 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 (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.

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