Adrian E. Raftery

Born in Ireland, Adrian Raftery is an American and Irish statistician and the Boeing International Professor of Statistics and Sociology at the University of Washington in Seattle. He works on the development of new statistical methods for the social, environmental and health sciences. An elected member of the U.S. National Academy of Sciences, he was identified as the world's most cited researcher in mathematics for the decade 1995-2005 by Thomson-ISI. He has supervised 29 Ph.D. graduates, of whom 21 hold or have held tenure-track university faculty positions.