Vijay Nair

Vijay Nair is the Donald A. Darling Professor of Statistics and Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He has been Chair of the Department of Statistics since 1998. Previously, he was a Research Scientist in the Mathematical Sciences and Operations Research Centers at Bell Laboratories for 15 years. Dr. Nair has a Bachelor's degree in Economics from the University of Malaya and a Ph. D. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley.

Vijay's research interests include engineering statistics (quality improvement, reliability, design and analysis of industrial experiments, and process control), information technology (modeling and analysis of computer and communication networks and sensor networks), and design of behavioral intervention studies. He also has extensive consulting experience on a broad range of problems in the automotive, semiconductor, and telecommunications industries.

Vijay is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Statistical Association, and the Institute for Mathematical Statistics. He is a former editor of Technometrics and of the International Statistical Review. He has served (or is serving) as Chair of the Board of Trustees of the National Institute Statistical Sciences, vice-president of International Institute of Statistics, and a member of the National Academies' Committee on National Statistics.