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- Douglas G. Kelly
- Professor, Department of Statistics
Senior Associate Dean, College of Arts & Sciences
Brief biography: I was born and raised in Gary, Indiana. I got my undergraduate degree in Mathematics from Princeton University in 1961, worked for IBM for a year, then went to graduate school at Indiana University (Bloomington). I finished my PhD in Mathematics in 1967. After a one-year postdoctoral fellowship at Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Caltech, I came to UNC in 1968. Except for sabbaticals, I have been here ever since.
I was chair of the Department of Statistics from 1995 until 2000, when I began a term as Senior Associate Dean for the Sciences in the College of Arts and Sciences.
Research and scholarly interests: My research for the past several years has consisted primarily of mathematical modeling and statistical data analysis applied to problems in neurobiology. Earlier, I worked in combinatorial mathematics - primarily matroid theory - and in applications of probability to problems in combinatorics and optimization. Some of my recent research publications are listed here.
I have also written a textbook, Introduction
to Probability, published in 1994 by Prentice-Hall. This is a post-calculus
text for upper-level undergraduates.
You should consider statistics as a career.
Click here for information on careers in statistics, what statisticians do, internships, and other useful links.
Remember: There
are more jobs for statisticians these days than there are statisticians
to fill them.
Send me an e-mail message at dgkelly@email.unc.edu.
