Biographical Sketch:
George Casella is the Arun Varma Commemorative Term Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of Florida. Until last year he was Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Bioglogical Statistics in the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences at Cornell University. He is active in many aspects of statistics, having contributed to theoretical statistics in the areas of decision theory and statistical confidence, to environmental statistics (running an NIH-funded doctoral training program in that subject), and has more recently concentrated efforts in statistical genomics. He also maintains active research interests in the theory and application of Monte Carlo and other computationally-intensive methods. Casella has been very active in teaching, and has developed a number of courses, including a computer-intensive freshman-level introduction to mathematical and statistical problems in biology.
Casella has also served as associate editor of The American Statistician, Statistical Science and the Journal of the American Statistical Association (JASA); and also on the Board of Directors of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics Council. He has chaired the ASA committee on Constitutional Revision and the ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment, and was the Theory and Methods Editor of JASA, 1996-1999. Casella has authored four textbooks: Statistical Inference, 1990, with Roger Berger; Variance Components, 1992, with S. R. Searle and C. E. McCulloch; Theory of Point Estimation, Second Edition, 1998, with Erich Lehmann, and Monte Carlo Statistical Methods , 1999, with Christian Robert. He is currently working on a second edition of Statistical Inference.