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Ed George
Universal Furniture Professor; Professor of Statistics,  Department Chair


Education

PhD, Stanford University, 1981; MS, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1976; AB, Cornell University, 1972

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards

Fellow, American Statistical Association, (1997); Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, (1995); CBA Foundation Award for Outstanding Research Contributions (1998) and the CBA Foundation Award for Research Excellence (1995), The University of Texas at Austin; Excellence in Education Award (2001) and the Joe D. Beasley Award for Teaching Excellence (1996), The University of Texas at Austin. McKinsey Award for Excellence in Teaching (1987) and the Emory Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching (1987), The University of Chicago.

Academic Positions Held

Wharton: 2001-present (Chairperson, Statistics Department, 2008-present; named Universal Furniture Professor, 2002). Previous appointment: University of Texas at Austin; University of Chicago. Visiting Appointments: Cambridge University; University of Valencia

Professional Leadership 2005-2009

Executive Editor, Statistical Science, 2004-2007; Associate Editor, Bayesian Analysis, 2004-present; Associate Editor, Statistical Surveys, 2005-present; President, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2003.

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Publications
Denison D., Ed George (2011), Bayesian Prediction with Adaptive Ridge Estimators, “Contemporary Developments in Bayesian Analysis and Statistical Decision Theory : A Festschrift for William E. Strawderman”, IMS Collections, Vol. 8
Maruyama, Y., Ed George (2011), Fully Bayes Factors with a Generalized g-Prior, Annals of Statistics
Ed George, Hui, K. (2011), Optimal Pricing Using Online Auction Experiments: A Polya Tree Approach, Annals of Applied Statistics
Chipman, H.A., Ed George, McCulloch, R.E. (2010), BART: Bayesian Additive Regression Trees, Annals of Applied Statistics, Vol. 4, No. 1, 266-298
Ed George (2010), Dilution Priors: Compensating for Model Space Redundancy, Borrowing Strength: Theory Powering Applications – A Festschrift for Lawrence D. Brown, IMS Collections, Vol. 6, 158-165

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Honors And Awards
Excellence in Education Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001
CBA Foundation Award for Outstanding Research Contributions, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998
Joe D. Beasley Award for Teaching Excellence, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996
CBA Foundation Award for Research Excellence, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995
McKinsey Award for Excellence in Teaching, The University of Chicago, 1987

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Ed George
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Philadelphia, PA 19104
Phone: (215) 898-8229
edgeorge@wharton.upenn.edu

Research Interests:
Hierarchical Modeling; model uncertainty; shrinkage estimation; treed modeling; variable selection; wavelet regression