Distinguished Lecture: Professor Brian Reich

Distinguished Lecture: Professor Brian Reich

Join us for an insightful evening with Professor Brian Reich—Gertrude M. Cox Distinguished Professor of Statistics—at the Edinburgh Futures Institute, The University of Edinburgh. Come prepared to be inspired and learn from one of the leading minds in the field. Reserve your spot now!

The event is partially funded by Prob_AI and jointly organized with GAIL (Generative AI Laboratory) and GLE²N (Glasgow–Edinburgh Extremes Network).

Short Bio

Brian J. Reich is the Gertrude M. Cox Distinguished Professor of Statistics at North Carolina State University. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and member of the International Statistics Institute. He has served as Associate Editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association, the Annals of Applied Statistics and Biostatistics and as Editor-In-Chief for the Journal of Agricultural, Biological, and Environmental Statistics. His research interests include Bayesian methods, spatial statistics, extreme value analysis and machine learning. A major focus of his research is to develop new models for spatial extreme value analysis and computational approaches to fit these models. In addition to these methodological interests, Brian applies these methods to areas such as meteorology, climate change, air pollution and health effects. He co-authored the textbook Bayesian Statistical Methods (Chapman & Hall/CRC Press, 2019).