Edward George

Education

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

Career and Recent Professional Awards

• Elected Fellow of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis (2014); Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (1997); Elected 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, 2008-2014; named Universal Furniture Professor, 2002)
• Previous appointment: University of Texas at Austin, University of Chicago.
• Visiting Appointments: Cambridge University; University of Paris; University of Valencia

Professional Leadership

• Editor, Annals of Statistics, 2016-2018; Executive Editor, Statistical Science, 2004-2007.

Awards and Honors

• Cornell University Distinguished Alumni for the Department of Statistical Sciences, 2018
• Simons Fellowship, Isaac Newton Institute for Mathematical Sciences, Cambridge, 2018
• Bohrer Lecturer, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2017
• Fellow, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, 2014
• Challis Lecturer and Award for Outstanding Contributions to Statistics, University of Florida, 2012
• Geisser Distinguished Lecturer, University of Minnesota, 2012
• Palmetto Lecturer, University of South Carolina, 2012
• Loeb Lecturer, Washington University in St. Louis, 2011
• Medallion Lecturer, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2010
• Penn IUR Faculty Fellow, 2009-2010
• Hartley Memorial Lecturer, Texas A&M University, 2007
• Wharton Core Professor Award, “Tough But We’ll Thank in Five Years”, 2004
• Wharton Core Professor Award, “Goes Above and Beyond”, 2004
• ISI Highly Cited Researcher in Mathematics, 2004
• Excellence in Education Award, The University of Texas at Austin, 2001
• Faculty Honor Roll for Core Class Teaching, The University of Texas at Austin, 2000
• Lawrence Baxter Memorial Lecturer, SUNY at Stony Brook, 1998
• Dean’s Fellow, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998-1999
• CBA Foundation Award for Outstanding Research Contributions, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998
• Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1997
• Fellow, Center for Management of Operations and Logistics, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996
• Member, International Statistical Institute, 1996
• Joe D. Beasley Award for Teaching Excellence, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996
• Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1995
• CBA Foundation Award for Research Excellence, The University of Texas at Austin, 1995
• GBC Award for Excellence in Teaching of the Core Curriculum, Graduate School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993
• Spurgeon Bell Centennial Fellowship, Graduate School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, 1993-1994
• McKinsey Award for Excellence in Teaching, The University of Chicago, 1987
• The Emory Williams Award for Excellence in Teaching, The University of Chicago, 1987
• DeGroot Lecture, Department of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, 2020
• Yakovlev Colloquium, Department of Biostatistics and Computational Biology, University of Rochester, 2020