Adrian Raftery

Adrian is Blumstein-Jordan Professor Emeritus of Statistics and Sociology at the University of Washington. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences and the Center for Studies in Demography and Ecology. He works on developing new statistical methods for the social and environmental sciences. An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, he was identified as the world's most cited researcher in mathematics for the decade 1995-2005 by Thomson-ISI. He has supervised 36 Ph.D. graduates, of whom 21 hold or have held tenure-track university faculty positions, and has 170 academic descendants.