BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Dr. William DuMouchel

William DuMouchel received the Ph.D. in Statistics from Yale University in 1971 and has held a number of positions in academia and industry. His most recent academic appointment was as Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics at Columbia University from 1994 to 1996.

Before that he held faculty positions at MIT, U. of Michigan, and UC, Berkeley. Industrial positions have included stints at Bolt Beranek Newman and the Statistics Research group at AT&T Labs.

His methodology for detecting and measuring associations in transactional databases, called the Gamma-Poisson Shrinker (GPS), has been applied to adverse drug reaction databases by many researchers at the FDA and elsewhere. Two papers describing this and related work have won Best Application Paper awards at the 2001 and 2003 International Conferences on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining (KDD). He has recently assumed the position of Vice-President, Research, at Lincoln Technologies, Inc. located in Wellesley Hills, MA.