Chan named Robert V. Hogg Professor

Monday, April 10, 2017

Professor Kung-Sik Chan
Kung-Sik Chan

The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (CLAS) has named Professor Kung-Sik Chan of the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science as the Robert V. Hogg Professor.

“Professor Chan is a prolific researcher and a dedicated mentor and teacher to his students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels,” said CLAS Dean Chaden Djalali. “I am very pleased to announce his appointment to this professorship, and I am confident that Professor Hogg would be delighted to see his former colleague carry on the Hogg legacy.”

The Hogg Professorship was established by a gift from the estate of Professor Robert Hogg. Hogg was a widely admired and highly influential professor in the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science who earned his doctoral degree at the UI and went on to serve on the faculty for 54 years until his retirement in 2002. Hogg died in 2014.

Chan joined the faculty of the Department of Statistics & Actuarial Science in 1991. His primary research interests are time series analysis, data mining, high-dimensional inference, lung-image analysis, statistical ecology, fisheries statistics, hydrology, epidemiological modeling, stochastic differential equation modeling, sampling-based inference, chaos, and semiparametric statistics. He has authored more than 160 peer-reviewed publications, several articles, book chapters, and co-authored two monographs; delivered numerous invited lectures and conference presentations; and garnered many individual/collaborative grants and contracts.

A fellow of both the American Statistical Institute and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, Chan received the UI Faculty Scholar Award in 1996. He earned his doctoral degree from Princeton University in 1986.

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The University of Iowa College of Liberal Arts and Sciences offers about 70 majors across the humanities; fine, performing and literary arts; natural and mathematical sciences; social and behavioral sciences; and communication disciplines. About 15,000 undergraduate and nearly 2,000 graduate students study each year in the college’s 37 departments, led by faculty at the forefront of teaching and research in their disciplines. The college teaches all Iowa undergraduates through the college's general education program, CLAS CORE. About 80 percent of all Iowa undergraduates begin their academic journey in CLAS. The college confers about 60 percent of the university's bachelor's degrees each academic year.