About me
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Rob J Hyndman is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Econometrics and Business Statistics at Monash University. 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 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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pdf Curriculum Vitae
Office: Room 762, Menzies Building, Clayton campus, Monash University, VIC 3800, Australia.
In the news
Here is a list of recent news articles about me.
Administrative responsibilities
- 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.
- Director, International Institute of Forecasters
- 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.
- Member of the Methodology Advisory Committee for the Australian Bureau of Statistics.
Memberships
I am a member of the following organizations:
- International Institute of Forecasters (director)
- International Statistical Institute (elected member)
- International Association for Statistical Computing
- International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics
- Statistical Society of Australia
- Foundation for Open Access Statistics
Things I’ve started
- CrossValidated.com: a Q&A site for questions on statistics modelling, machine learning, data analysis, data visualization, etc. (Further information in this interview.)
- Time Series Data Library: About 800 time series, including data from many time series textbooks. Now hosted on DataMarket. (Further information in this blog post.)
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
Religion
For nearly 30 years, until July 2013, I was an active Christian believer, writer and speaker. I have written several books on the Bible and I have spoken at many Christian conferences in Australia and in several other countries. I even helped establish a new church.
I am no longer a Christian. Eventually I came to the view that there was little or no evidence that the Bible was inspired, or that God (if he exists at all) was interacting with humans in any way. So if you’re looking for my religious materials, they are no longer here. That part of this site is now closed, and that part of my life is now over.
In 2015 I wrote a book about my deconversion titled Unbelievable.