Edward I. George Faculty Profile

Edward I. George
Universal Furniture Professor; Professor of Statistics
Chairperson, Statistics Department

PhD, Stanford University, 1981; MS, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1976; AB, Cornell University, 1972

Research Areas
Hierarchical Modeling; model uncertainty; shrinkage estimation; treed modeling; variable selection; wavelet regression

Current Projects
Bayesian treed modeling, default priors for model spaces, minimax Bayes model averaging, modeling the customer base of a brand.

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2001-present (Chairperson, Statistics Department, 2008-present; named Universal Furniture Professor, 2002). Previous appointment: University of Texas at Austin; University of Chicago. Visiting Appointments: Cambridge University; University of Valencia

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Fellow, American Statistical Association, (1997); Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, (1995); CBA Foundation Award for Outstanding Research Contributions (1998) and the CBA Foundation Award for Research Excellence (1995), The University of Texas at Austin; Excellence in Education Award (2001) and the Joe D. Beasley Award for Teaching Excellence (1996), The University of Texas at Austin. McKinsey Award for Excellence in Teaching (1987) and the Emory Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching (1987), The University of Chicago.

Professional Leadership 2005-2009
Executive Editor, Statistical Science, 2004-2007; Associate Editor, Bayesian Analysis, 2004-present; Associate Editor, Statistical Surveys, 2005-present; President, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2003.

Representative Publications
(with D.P.Foster)
"Calibration and Empirical Bayes Variable Selection." Biometrika (2000).

(with H. Chipman and R.E. McCulloch)
"Bayesian CART Model Search (with discussion)." Journal of the American Statistical Association (1998).

"Minimax multiple shrinkage estimation." Annals of Statistics (1986).