David L. Banks

David Banks obtained an M.S. in Applied Mathematics from Virginia Tech in 1982, followed by a Ph.D. in Statistics in 1984. He wrote a thesis titled A Nonparametric Bayesian Test, supervised by Irving John Good.{{Cite web |title=David Banks - The Mathematics Genealogy Project |url=https://www.mathgenealogy.org/id.php?id=91796 |access-date=2024-01-10 |website=www.mathgenealogy.org}} He won an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Mathematical Sciences, which he took at UC Berkeley from 1984 to 1986. In 1986 he was a visiting assistant lecturer at the University of Cambridge, and then joined the Department of Statistics at Carnegie Mellon in 1987.

In 1997 he went to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, then served as chief statistician of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and finally joined the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2002. In 2003, he returned to academics at Duke University and is currently the director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute since 2018.

David Banks was the coordinating editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association.{{Cn|date=January 2024}} He co-founded the journal Statistics and Public Policy and served as its editor.{{Cite web |title=Statistics and Public Policy Editorial Board |url=https://www.tandfonline.com/action/journalInformation?show=editorialBoard&journalCode=uspp20 |access-date=9 January 2024 |website=www.tandfonline.com}} He co-founded the American Statistical Association’s Section on National Defense and Homeland Security,{{Cn|date=January 2024}} and has chaired that section, as well as the sections on Risk Analysis and on Statistical Learning and Data Mining.{{Cn|date=January 2024}} He has published 91 refereed articles, edited nine books, and written four monographs. He is a former editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association; a founding editor of the journal Statistics, Politics and Policy; and a co-editor of the monograph Statistical Methods for Human Rights.{{Cn|date=January 2024}} He is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Royal Statistical Society.{{Cn|date=January 2024}} He has been a member of the board of directors of the American Statistical Association, and he is a past-President of the Classification Society.{{Cn|date=January 2024}} He has taught at the University of Cambridge and at Carnegie Mellon University; he was also Chief Statistician of the U.S. Department of Transportation.{{Cn|date=January 2024}} Additionally, he has served on six National Academies panels.{{Cn|date=January 2024}}

His research areas include models for dynamic networks, dynamic text networks, adversarial risk analysis (i.e., Bayesian behavioral game theory), human rights statistics, agent-based models, forensics, and certain

topics in high-dimensional data analysis.{{Cn|date=January 2024}}

Banks is currently Professor of the Practice of Statistics at Duke University. In addition, Banks is in charge of the Modeling in the Economic and Social Sciences Focus Cluster, part of Duke's Freshman FOCUS Program.{{Cn|date=January 2024}} In 2015, he received the ASA Founders Award (the highest award made by the American Statistical Association).{{Cn|date=January 2024}}

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Banks coauthored a survey article in 2006 on statistical aspects of data quality,{{Cite journal |last1=Karr |first1=Alan F. |last2=Sanil |first2=Ashish P. |last3=Banks |first3=David L. |date=2006-04-01 |title=Data quality: A statistical perspective |url=https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1572312705000638 |journal=Statistical Methodology |volume=3 |issue=2 |pages=137–173 |doi=10.1016/j.stamet.2005.08.005 |issn=1572-3127|url-access=subscription }} and another in 2009 on adversarial risk analysis.{{Cite journal |last1=Insua |first1=Insua Rios |last2=Rios |first2=Jesus |last3=Banks |first3=David |date=2009 |title=Adversarial Risk Analysis |url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/40592227 |journal=Journal of the American Statistical Association |volume=104 |issue=486 |pages=841–854 |doi=10.1198/jasa.2009.0155 |jstor=40592227 |s2cid=219598336 |issn=0162-1459}} He also co-authored a chapter titled Network Analysis of Wikipedia in the book Statistical Methods in e-Commerce Research, published by Wiley in 2008.{{Cite book |title=Statistical methods in e-commerce research |date=2008 |publisher=Wiley |isbn=978-0-470-32318-2 |editor-last=Shmueli |editor-first=Galit |series=Statistics in practice |location=Hoboken, N.J |pages=81 |editor-last2=Jank |editor-first2=Wolfgang}} Moreover, Banks studied the use of social network analysis for understanding disaster response and discussed several mathematical models for the evolution of a network.{{Cite journal |last1=Varda |first1=Danielle M. |last2=Forgette |first2=Rich |last3=Banks |first3=David |last4=Contractor |first4=Noshir |date=2009-02-01 |title=Social Network Methodology in the Study of Disasters: Issues and Insights Prompted by Post-Katrina Research |url=https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-008-9110-9 |journal=Population Research and Policy Review |language=en |volume=28 |issue=1 |pages=11–29 |doi=10.1007/s11113-008-9110-9 |issn=1573-7829 |s2cid=144130904|url-access=subscription }}{{Cite journal |last1=Banks |first1=David L. |last2=Carley |first2=Kathleen M. |date=April 1996 |title=Models for network evolution |url=http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/0022250X.1996.9990179 |journal=The Journal of Mathematical Sociology |language=en |volume=21 |issue=1–2 |pages=173–196 |doi=10.1080/0022250X.1996.9990179 |s2cid=14094496 |issn=0022-250X|url-access=subscription }}

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