Howard M. Taylor is a former professor of statistics and probability at Cornell University and the University of Delaware. He co-authored the textbooks A First Course in Stochastic Processes, A Second Course in Stochastic Processes, and Introduction to Stochastic Modeling. He has also published numerous papers in journals such as the Annals of Probability, the Journal of Applied Probability, and the Annals of Mathematical Statistics. His Erdos number is two.