Bio:
David J. Edwards is Professor and Head of Mathematical Sciences. Prior to joining The Citadel, he served as Professor and Chair of Statistical Sciences and Operations Research at Virginia Commonwealth University. He holds a BS in Mathematics from Virginia Tech and an MS and PhD in Statistics from The University of Tennessee. His research is focused on applied statistics and data analytics with especial interest in design and analysis of experiments, model selection, and interpretable machine learning. He is heavily involved in interdisciplinary research and has worked on projects as varied as air transportation, middle school math specialists, pharmaceutical engineering, and the human microbiome. Dr. Edwards is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and is Editor-in-Chief of Quality Engineering, a journal devoted to applied statistical methods for industrial practice. He is a former Associate Editor for Technometrics.