is a consultant with Neptune and Company in Denver, CO. Prior to joining Neptune, he spent a few years each as a technical staff member at Los Alamos National Laboratory and as an assistant professor at the University of Colorado, Denver. His research interests are in Bayesian statistics, decision analysis, statistical physics, and simulation.
Education:
BS Mathematics, Pepperdine University
MS Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
PhD Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University
Areas of Expertise:
Spatio-Temporal Modeling
Bayesian Modeling and Analysis
Statistical Computing and Simulation
Environmental Statistics
Monte Carlo Simulation
Decision Analysis
Statistical Physics
Publications:
Co-author, "Application of Decision Frameworks to Address Uncertainty and Reduce Technical Risk in the I-Block Closure Project.” Umatilla Chemical Depot I-Block Closure Plan, Hermiston, OR, 2007.
Co-author, “Numerical Simulations of local material property variation on deformation of webs during loading”, ASME Journal of Applied Mechanics, 2005.
Co-author, “A Bayesian dynamic model for multivariate space-time groundwater data,” American Statistical Association Proceedings of the Joint Statistical Meetings, 2005.
Co-author, “Hierarchical Models for Permutations: Analysis of Auto Racing Data” Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2003
Co-author, “Adaptive Importance Sampling in Particle Dispersion Simulations.” Communications in Statistics, Theory and Methods, 2001
Websites links:
Dr. Mark Fitzgerald
Courses:
Bayesian Environmental Statistics