About me

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Rob J Hyndman is Professor of Statistics and Head of the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University. From 2005 to 2018 he was Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Forecasting and a Director of the International Institute of Forecasters. Rob is the author of over 150 research papers and 5 books 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 over 30 years, Rob has maintained an active consulting practice, assisting hundreds of companies and organizations around the world. He has won awards for his research, teaching, consulting and graduate supervision.

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Office: Room 762, Menzies Building, Clayton campus, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia.

In the news

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Administrative responsibilities

Head, Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics, Monash University.
Editor, Journal of Statistical Software.
Associate Editor, International Journal of Forecasting.
Editor of the NEP forecasting report.
Member of the Scaling committee, Victorian Tertiary Admissions Centre. This committee is responsible for producing the ATAR for VCE students.
Member of the Interstate Transfer Index Technical Group for the Australasian Conference of Tertiary Admissions Centres.
Member of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Statistical and Technical Advisory Group for the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare.

Memberships

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Trivia

My mathematical genealogy goes back to Leibniz, Bernoulli, Euler, Lagrange and Poisson.

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