Short CV

V. Radu Craiu – Short CV

• Education
  • Ph.D. in Statistics (2001) – University of Chicago, USA.
  • M.S. in Mathematics (1996) – University of Bucharest, Romania.
• Present Position
  • Professor (2013) – University of Toronto, Canada.
• Awards
  • 2022 – Fellow of the American Statistical Association
  • 2020 – Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
  • 2020 – Faculty Affiliate of the Vector Institute
  • 2019 – CJS Award for the paper Likelihood Inflating Sampling Algorithm co-authored with Reihaneh Entezari and Jeffrey Rosenthal. (Photo)
  • 2016 – Winner of the CRM-SSC prize given by the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques and the Statistical Society of Canada. (Photo)
  • 2015 – Elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
• Editorial Service
  • Contributing Editor for the IMS Bulletin.
  • Associate Editor for Journal of the American Statistical Association.
  • Associate Editor for Harvard Data Science Review.
  • Associate Editor for Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
  • Associate Editor for Canadian Journal of Statistics.
  • Associate Editor for Statistics Surveys
  • Associate Editor for Statistical Methods and Applications
  • 2021-2024 – Associate Editor for Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.
  • 2012-2021 – Associate Editor for STAT – The ISI’s Journal for the Rapid Dissemination of Statistics Research.
  • 2014 – Guest Associate Editor for Technometrics Special Issue on Big Data.
  • 2014 – Guest Associate Editor for Statistics and Its Interface Special Issue on Big Data.
  • 2005-2011 – Associate Editor for Statistica Sinica
• Current Research Interests
  • Computational algorithms, especially Markov chain Monte Carlo.
  • Bayesian Inference.
  • Copula Models.
  • Model selection.
  • Statistical methods for astronomy, demography, ecology and genetics.
• Graduate Supervision
• Publications
• Selected Presentations
• Spoken Languages
  • English.
  • French.
  • Romanian.