Dr. William Rosenberger has been named a University Professor by the George Mason University Board of Visitors. The University Professor title is, along with endowed chairs, the highest academic rank Mason maintains for faculty. He is cited for his theoretical contributions to statistics in the areas of experimental design and sequential analysis that have been recognized locally, nationally, and internationally.
Rosenberger received his Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics from George Washington University's Statistics Department in 1992. He has served as Department Chair at the Volgenau School since 2006. His principle research area is experimental design, randomization, and clinical trials.
"We are one of only four statistics departments in the nation housed in an engineering school," says Rosenberg. To him the fit is obvious¬. "Engineers deal with stochastic phenomena, modeling, and data, and statistics is the science of data collection and analysis using stochastic modeling. Both disciplines are routed in mathematical theory, computation, and modern information technology."
In fall 2014 Rosenberg will travel to Aachen, Germany as a Fulbright Scholar and conduct collaborative research at the RWTH University of Aachen Medical School. He will also spend his sabbatical in fall 2014 and spring 2015 writing the second edition of his 2001 book Randomization in Clinical Trials: Theory and Practice. The faculty at RWTH Aachen are involved in a €3 million grant from the European Union on methodology for clinical trials of rare diseases. Rosenberger will collaborate on problems involving the use of randomization in very small clinical trials.
About the Department of Statistics:
The department has expertise in many cutting-edge areas of statistical research. Three particular emphases are biostatistics, the application of statistics to medical research; biometric identification; and computational statistics, including visualization and data mining.