Dr. David Madigan, Northeastern University

Professor David Madigan is the Provost and Senior Vice President for Academic Affairs at Northeastern University, where he is also a Professor of Statistics. Previously he served as Executive Vice President of Arts and Sciences and Dean of the Faculty at Columbia University, and as Chair of Columbia’s Department of Statistics. He has also held positions at AT&T Inc., Rutgers University, and the University of Washington.

His research spans Bayesian statistics, text mining, Monte Carlo methods, pharmacovigilance, and probabilistic graphical models. He holds a B.Sc. in Mathematical Sciences and a Ph.D. in Statistics from Trinity College Dublin. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and the AAAS, and has served as Editor-in-Chief of Statistical Science.