Professor of Statistics and Professor of Industrial & Operations Engineering University of Michigan

Vijay Nair is Donald A. Darling Professor and Head of the Department of Statistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA. He also holds a joint appointment as Professor in the Department of Industrial & Operations Engineering. He has worked extensively in the areas of Engineering Statistics, Reliability, Design of Experiments, and Modeling of Computer and Communications Networks. His recent interests include Credit Risk Modeling, Neuroinformatics, and Behavioral Intervention Studies. Before joining the University of Michigan, he was a Research Scientist at Bell Laboratories for fifteen years. He has a PhD in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley and a Bachelor in Economics from the University of Malaya, Malaysia.