V. Radu Craiu — Short CV

• Education
  
  • Ph.D. in Statistics (2001) - University of Chicago, USA (supervisor: Xiao-Li Meng).
    
  • M.S. in Mathematics (1996) - University of Bucharest, Romania.
    
    
• Present Position
  
  • Professor (2013) - University of Toronto, Canada.
    
    
• Awards
  
  • 2022 — Fellow of the American Statistical Association
    
  • 2020 — Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
    
  • 2020 — Faculty Affiliate of the Vector Institute
    
  • 2019 — CJS Award for the paper Likelihood Inflating Sampling Algorithm co-authored with Reihaneh Entezari and Jeffrey Rosenthal. (Photo)
    
  • 2016 — Winner of the CRM-SSC prize given by the Centre de Recherches Mathematiques and the Statistical Society of Canada. (Photo)
    
  • 2015 — Elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
    
    
• Editorial Service
  

  • Associate Editor for Harvard Data Science Review.
  • Associate Editor for Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
  • Associate Editor for Canadian Journal of Statistics.
  • Associate Editor for Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.
  • Associate Editor for Statistics Surveys
  • Associate Editor for Statistical Methods and Applications
  • 2012-2021 — Associate Editor for STAT - The ISI's Journal for the Rapid Dissemination of Statistics Research.
  • 2014 — Guest Associate Editor for Technometrics Special Issue on Big Data.
    
  • 2014 — Guest Associate Editor for Statistics and Its Interface Special Issue on Big Data.
    
  • 2005-2011 — Associate Editor for Statistica Sinica
    
    

• Current Research Interests
  
  • Computational algorithms, especially Markov chain Monte Carlo.
  • Bayesian Inference.
  • Copula Models.
  • Statistical genetics.
  • Model selection.
    
    
• Graduate Supervision
  
  
• Publications
  
  
• Selected Presentations
  
  
• Spoken Languages
  
  • English.
  • French.
  • Romanian.