Bio

C.F. Jeff Wu is a professor in ISyE and holds the Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics. He was formerly the H. C. Carver Professor of Statistics and Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor from 1993 - July 2003, the GM/NSERC Chair in Quality and Productivity at the University of Waterloo from 1988-1993, and before Waterloo, he taught in the Statistics Department at the University of Wisconsin from 1977-1988. He earned his BS in Mathematics from National Taiwan University in 1971 and Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of California, Berkeley (1973-1976). Dr. Wu joined Georgia Tech in the summer of 2003.

Dr. Wu's honors include membership on the National Academy of Engineering (2004), Member (Academician) of Academia Sinica (2000), COPSS (Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies) Presidents Award in 1987, honorary professor at Chinese Academy of Sciences, and an honorary doctor of mathematics at U. of Waterloo. (COPSS Award is presented annually to the best researcher under the age of 40.) He is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality, of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and of the American Statistical Association. Dr. Wu has won numerous awards, including Taiwan's Penwenyuan Technology Award in 2008, the 1990 Wilcoxon Prize for the best paper in Technometrics, the 1992 Brumbaugh Award for the single most important paper to quality control among the publications sponsored by the American Society for Quality Control, and the Jack Youden Prize twice (1997, 2004) for best paper in Technometrics. He was the 1998 P. C. Mahalanobis Memorial Lecturer at the Indian Statistical Institutes with widely cited research work and a listing as an "ISI Highly Cited Researcher" in 2002 on www.isihighlycited.com (ISI = Institute for Scientific Information).

Dr. Wu's work is widely cited in professional journals as well as in magazines, including a feature article about his work in Canadian Business and a special issue of Newsweek on quality. He has served as editor or associate editor for several prestigious statistical journals like Annals of Statistics, Journal of American Statistical Association, Technometrics, and Statistica Sinica. Professor Wu has published more than 130 research articles in peer review journals. He has supervised 35 Ph.D.'s, many of which are teaching in major research departments in statistics/engineering/business in US/Canada/Asia and two were senior VP in major US companies. He co-authors with Mike Hamada the award-winning book "Experiments: Planning, Analysis, and Optimization" (Wiley, 2nd Ed., 2009, 710 pages) and with R Mukerjee the book "A Modern Theory of Factorial Designs" (Springer, 2006, 230 pages).