Dr. Fabrizio Ruggeri

Fabrizio Ruggeri received a B.Sc. degree in Mathematics from the University of Milano, Italy, in 1982, an M.Sc. degree in Statistics from Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA, in 1989, and a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from Duke University, Durham, NC, USA, in 1994. He is currently a Senior Fellow at the Italian National Research Council, Milano, Italy, where he has been working since 1987. His research interests are mostly in Bayesian and industrial statistics, especially in robustness, decision analysis, reliability, and stochastic processes. Dr. Ruggeri is an ASA, IMS, and ISBA Fellow, an ISI Elected Member, an ENBIS Honorary Member, a former ISBA, ENBIS, and ISBIS President, and the current ISI President-Elect. He is a recipient of the Zellner Medal by ISBA. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry journal for 17 years and Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability (Wiley, 2007), and he is still an Editor-in-Chief of Wiley StatsRef Online.