Spall, James C.

PERSONAL:

Male. Education: Oakland University, B.S., 1979; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, S.M., 1981; University of Virginia, Ph.D., 1983.

ADDRESSES:

Office—Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723-6099. E-mail—[email protected]. CAREER: Writer. Worked for U.S. Department of Transportation, National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration, and General Motors Research Laboratory, between 1979 and 1982; Johns Hopkins University, Applied Physics Laboratory, Laurel, MD, member of senior professional staff, 1983-91, member of principal professional staff, 1991—, instructor, 1996—, research professor of applied mathematics and statistics, 2004—, Dunning Professor, 2004-05, chair of Applied and Computational Mathematics Program at Whiting School of Engineering, 1999—. Holder of patents for inventions in control systems. Conference organizer.

MEMBER:

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (fellow), American Statistical Association (president of Maryland chapter, 1998-2000), Tau Beta Pi.

AWARDS, HONORS:

Best paper award, Military Operations Research Symposium, 1995.

WRITINGS:

(Editor and contributor) Bayesian Analysis of Time Series and Dynamic Models, Marcel Dekker (New York, NY), 1988.

Introduction to Stochastic Search and Optimization: Estimation, Simulation, and Control, John Wiley (Hoboken, NJ), 2003.

Contributor to scientific and technical books. Contributor to professional journals, including International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing, Journal of Sound and Vibration, Journal of Testing and Evaluation, Automatica, Technometrics, Journal of Time Series Analysis, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods, and Management Science. IEEE Transactions on Automatic Control, associate editor, 1996- 99, associate editor at large, 2003—; contributing editor, Current Index to Statistics, 1992—. Member of editorial board, Johns Hopkins APL Technical Digest, 1996—.

BIOGRAPHICAL AND CRITICAL SOURCES:

PERIODICALS

Journal of the American Statistical Association, December, 2004, Jesse Frey, review of Introduction to Stochastic Search and Optimization: Estimation, Simulation, and Control, p. 1204.

Technometrics, August, 2004, Tim Hesterberg, review of Introduction to Stochastic Search and Optimization, p. 367.