Joseph L Gastwirth
Home Vita Research Publications Teaching
Home Vita Research Publications Teaching
Education Professional Record Societies Service Awards

Curriculum Vitae

Educational record

  • B.S. (Summa Cum Laude) Mathematics, Yale University, 1958
  • M.A. Pure Mathematics, Princeton University, 1960
  • Ph.D. Mathematical Statistics, Columbia University, 1963
Ph.D. thesis, written under the supervision of Professor L. Takacs, entitled,
"On Some Problems in the Theory of Particle Counting and Queues with Infinitely Many Servers."

Professional record

  • September 1963 - June 1964 -- Post-doctoral Research Associate
    Department of Statistics, Stanford University
  • July 1964 - June 1967 -- Assistant Professor
    July 1967 - June 1972 -- Associate Professor
    Department of Statistics, Johns Hopkins University
  • September 1970 - June 1971 -- Visiting Associate Professor
    Department of Statistics, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
  • July 1971 - June 1972 -- Visiting Faculty Advisor
    Office of Statistical Policy, Executive Office of the President, Washington, D.C. 20503
  • July 1972 - Present -- Professor of Statistics and Economics
    Department of Statistics, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052
  • January - June 1979 -- Visiting Professor of Applied Mathematics
    Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 02139
  • March 1981 - January 1986 -- Statistical Consultant
    Office of Information and Regulatory Analysis
    Office of Management and Budget, Washington, D.C. 20503
  • September 1985 - June 1986 -- Visiting Scholar (Guggenheim Foundation Fellow)
    University of California at Davis, Davis, CA 95616
  • June 1999 - July 2000 -- Visiting Scientist
    Biostatistics Branch, Division of Cancer Epidemiology and Genetics
    National Cancer Institute, Bethesda MD 20892

Membership in professional societies

  • American Statistical Association
  • Institute of Mathematical Statistics
  • Royal Statistical Society
  • American Association for the Advancement of Science
  • International Statistical Institute (Elected, 1980)
  • Industrial Relations Research Association
  • International Chinese Statistical Association
  • International Society for Bayesian Analysis
  • Biometric Society
  • International Genetic Epidemiology Society

Scientific committee and professional service

  • Member, Program Committee for IMS Eastern Regional Meetings
  • Publications Chairman, Business and Economics Section of ASA (1975-76)
  • Chairman, ASA Committee on Privacy and Confidentiality (1975-77), Member (1977-78)
  • Member, Steering Committee for U.S. Census Bureau's Conference on Women's Issues in Federal Statistics (1977-78)
  • Associate Editor, Journal of American Statistical Association (Theory and Methods, 1978-79; Applications, 1980-81; Book Reviews, 1983-86; Theory and Methods, 1986-88); Book Reviews (1993-95)
  • President-elect (1981-82) and President (1982-83) Washington Statistical Society
  • Member, Program Committee for the Bernoulli Society's Meeting in conjunction with the 1985 I.S.I. Conference
  • Organizer of a Session on Case-Control Studies for the 1987 I.S.I Conference
  • Member, ASA Committee on Law and Justice Statistics (1988-1993)
  • Member, Program Committee for the 2nd International Conference on Forensic Statistics (March, 1993)
  • Organizer of the Statistics and Law Session for the 1993 I.S.I. Conference
  • Member, Nominating Committee of the ASA (1995-96)
  • Member, Program Committee for the 3rd International Conference on Forensic Statistics (July, 1996)
  • Panel Member for grants to Small Business Program, National Science Foundation (Fall 1998)
  • Panel Member, Measurement Methodology and Statistics Program, National Science Foundation (Spring 1999)
  • Member, Program Committee for the 4th International Conference on Forensic Statistics (December, 1999)
  • Member, ASA Committee on Law and Justice Statistics (2000-2001)
  • Member, Program Committee for the 5th International Conference on Forensic Statistics (September, 2002)
  • Member, Nominations Committee for the Section on Non-parametric statistics of the American Statistical Association (2000)
  • Member, Committee to organize a special session in memory of Prof. Samuel W. Greenhouse for the spring 2001 meeting of the Biometric Society.
  • Chairman, American Statistical Associations Panel on Statistical Issues in Elections (2001-2)
  • Member, Program Committee for the 6th International Conference on Forensic Statistics (To be held in March, 2005).
  • Member, ASA Committee on Public Affairs (2003-2004).
  • Member, ASA Committee on Law and Justice Statistics ( appointed to serve during 2005-2007).
  • Member, Editorial Board of Law, Probability and Risk (2002-present).
  • Associate Editor, Biometrical Journal (2004- present).

Awards and honors

  • Recipient of the Washington Statistical Society Award (1969)
  • Fellowship in the American Statistical Association (Elected 1970)
  • Fellowship in the American Association for the Advancement of Science (1971)
  • Fellowship in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (Elected 1972)
  • Listed in Who's Who in Economics (1st edition 1980, 2nd ed. 1985)
  • Listed in Who's Who in America (1980-81 to present)
  • John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship (1985)
  • Recipient of the Shiskin Award for Economic Statistics (1998)
  • Co-Recipient of the American Statistical Associations Award for the Outstanding Applications Article (2002)

Membership in honorary societies

  • Phi Beta Kappa
  • Sigma Xi
hidden hidden hidden hidden hidden hidden hidden hidden hidden hidden