Hans-Georg Mueller

Bio:
Hans-Georg Müller is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Davis. He has served as Chair of the Department of Statistics, founding chair of the Graduate Program in Biostatistics at UC Davis and co-editor of Statistica Sinica. Over the years he has been engaged in various biomedical research consortia, aiming to quantify brain and neurocognitive development from brain imaging data, to sequence the wheat genome, and to model aging, longevity and human mortality, with support from NIH, NSF and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. His contributions to statistics include early work on smoothing methods for nonparametric regression and density estimation, methodology for growth curves and change-points, and semiparametric and structured modeling in regression. He then devoted major efforts to develop the theoretical and methodological foundations for functional data analysis, notably functional principal component analysis, empirical dynamics, time warping and functional regression, and also to build a bridge between functional and longitudinal data analysis, aligning these two areas. In his recent research, he is developing concepts and methods for the emerging field of statistical analysis and inference for random objects, including distributional data analysis and transport regression.