Professor
Sidney Smith Hall | 100 St. George Street | Room: 6019
416-978-5709
Campus
- Downtown Toronto (St. George)
Fields of Study
- Data Science
- Statistical Computing
Areas of Interest
- Efficiency of Monte Carlo methods
- Bayesian inference
- Copula models
- Statistical genetics
- Statistical computing
Biography
Radu V. Craiu studied Mathematics at the University of Bucharest (BS 1995, MS 1996) and received a PhD from the Department of Statistics at The University of Chicago in 2001. His main research interests are in computational methods in statistics, especially, Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms (MCMC), Bayesian inference, copula models, model selection procedures and statistical genetics.
Awards
- CRM-SSC Prize in Statistics Centre de recherches mathématiques (CRM) and Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)
- ISI Elected Member International Statistical Institute (ISI)
- Fellow Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS)
- CJS Best Paper Award Canadian Journal of Statistics, Statistical Society of Canada (SSC)
Administrative Service
Department Chair