Rob J Hyndman

Brief bio

(The fol­low­ing bio and pho­tos may be used in media releases without fur­ther permission.)

Rob J Hyndman is Pro­fessor of Stat­ist­ics in the Depart­ment of Eco­no­met­rics and Busi­ness Stat­ist­ics at Mon­ash Uni­ver­sity and Dir­ector of the Mon­ash Uni­ver­sity Busi­ness & Eco­nomic Fore­cast­ing Unit. He is also Editor-​​in-​​Chief of the Inter­na­tional Journal of Fore­cast­ing and a Dir­ector of the Inter­na­tional Insti­tute of Fore­casters. Rob is the author of over 100 research papers in stat­ist­ical sci­ence. In 2007, he received the Moran medal from the Aus­tralian Academy of Sci­ence for his con­tri­bu­tions to stat­ist­ical research, espe­cially in the area of stat­ist­ical fore­cast­ing. For 25 years, Rob has main­tained an act­ive con­sult­ing prac­tice, assist­ing hun­dreds of com­pan­ies and organ­iz­a­tions. His recent con­sult­ing work has involved fore­cast­ing elec­tri­city demand, tour­ism demand, the Aus­tralian gov­ern­ment health budget and case volume at a US call centre.

Pho­tos: low-​​res, medium-​​res, high-​​res.

Admin­is­trat­ive responsibilities

• Dir­ector, Mon­ash Uni­ver­sity Busi­ness and Eco­nomic Fore­cast­ing Unit.
• Dir­ector, Inter­na­tional Insti­tute of Forecasters
• Editor-​​in-​​Chief, Inter­na­tional Journal of Fore­cast­ing.
• Editor, Journal of Stat­ist­ical Soft­ware.
• Pre­vi­ously (2001−2004) The­ory & Meth­ods Editor for the Aus­tralian & New Zea­l­and Journal of Stat­ist­ics.
• Editor of the NEP fore­cast­ing report.
• Mem­ber of the Sci­entific Pro­gram Advis­ory Group for the Stat­ist­ical Soci­ety of Aus­tralia.
• Mem­ber of the Scal­ing com­mit­tee, Vic­torian Ter­tiary Admis­sions Centre. This com­mit­tee is respons­ible for pro­du­cing the ENTER for VCE stu­dents.
• Mem­ber of the Advis­ory Board, Kaggle. Kaggle is a great web plat­form for data pre­dic­tion competitions.

Mem­ber­ships

I am a mem­ber of the fol­low­ing organizations

• Inter­na­tional Insti­tute of Forecasters
• Inter­na­tional Stat­ist­ical Institute
• Inter­na­tional Asso­ci­ation for Stat­ist­ical Computing
• Amer­ican Stat­ist­ical Association
• Stat­ist­ical Soci­ety of Australia
• Aus­tralian Pop­u­la­tion Association
• T_EX Users Group

Trivia

My Erdös num­ber is 3 in two dif­fer­ent ways.

• via Peter Brock­well /​ Kai-​​Lai Chung /​ Paul Erdös
• via J. Keith Ord /​ Peter C Fish­burn /​ Paul Erdös

Fur­ther information

• Wiki­pe­dia page
• REPEC page
• Math­em­at­ical gene­a­logy page