David Madigan

David Bennett Madigan (born December 11, 1962) is an Irish and American statistician and an academic professor.^[1] He is currently the Executive Vice-President for Arts & Sciences, Dean of the Faculty,^[2] and Professor of Statistics^[3] at Columbia University in the City of New York. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Statistics at Columbia University (2008-2013), Dean, Physical and Mathematical Sciences, Rutgers University (2005-2007), Director, Institute of Biostatistics, Rutgers University (2003-2004), and Professor, Department of Statistics, Rutgers University (2001-2007).

Professional life

Education

Dr. Madigan received his bachelor's degree in Mathematical Sciences (1984, First Class Honours, Gold Medal) and a Ph.D. in Statistics (1990), both from Trinity College Dublin.

Early career

Madigan began his academic career in the 1990s at the University of Washington where he was an Assistant and then Associate Professor of Statistics, winning the University's Distinguished Teaching Award in 1995. Dr. Madigan has also served as Vice President, Data Mining, Soliloquy, Inc. (2000-2001), Principal Technical Staff Member, AT&T Labs-Research (1999-2000), Information Technology Consultant, KPMG (1989-1990), Technology Manager, Peregrine Expert Systems Ltd. (1986-1989), Expert System Consultant, SkillSoft, (1985-1986), and Actuarial Associate, Hibernian Life Assurance, Ireland (1984-1985).

Honors

Madigan is an elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (2014), a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (2012), a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2006), and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1999). He served as Editor-in-Chief of Statistical Science, 2008-2010, and as Editor-in-Chief of Statistical Analysis and Data Mining, the ASA Data Science Journal, 2013-2015.

Scholarship

He has over 150 publications in such areas as Bayesian statistics, text mining, Monte Carlo methods, pharmacovigilance and probabilistic graphical models.

Personal life

Madigan grew up in Athlone in the center of Ireland where he attended the Marist Brothers schools. He is married to Áine Madigan. They have three college-age children and live in suburban New Jersey.

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