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ACADEMIC VITAE
(January, ****)
CHIH-HSIANG HO
Department of Mathematical Sciences
University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV 89154 - 4020
Tel: 702-***-****
Fax: 702-***-****
E-mail: abo1jb@r.postjobfree.com
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. (Statistics), University of Minnesota, Minnesota, 1986 (Advisor: Donald A. Berry)
M.S. (Statistics), University of Minnesota, Minnesota, 1984
M.S. (Mathematics), New Mexico Highlands University, Las Vegas, New Mexico, 1981
B.S. (Mathematics), National Central University, Taiwan, 1975
RESEARCH INTERESTS
Statistical modeling and analysis for interdisciplinary research which concerns with
human and social betterment
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
American Statistical Association
International Chinese Statistical Association
EMPLOYMENT HISTORY
1986PresentDepartment of Mathematical Sciences, University of Nevada,
Las Vegas
Department Chair (
July 2006June 2009)
Director, Center of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (2 years, began S 2003)
Co-Associate Chair/College Executive Committee
(1 year, began F 2000)
Assistant (August 1986
)/
Associate (July 1991
)/
Full Professor (July 1996
)
19921993Institute and Department of Applied MathematicsNational Chung-Hsing University, Taichung, Taiwan
(Sabbatical Leave) Visiting Associate Professor
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SCHOLARLY ACTIVITY
Research Grants and Contracts Completed
Co-PI (with Jeffery Q. Shen and Roy Ogawa) for the project Development of an
Interdisciplinary Bioinformatics
Research/Education Program at UNLV, funded by the UNLV 2004-05 Planning Initiative
Awards, August 2004
December 2005, $30,000.
Principal Investigator for the project Statistical Analysis of Episodic Patterns of
Volcanism: Implications for
Volcanic Hazard Assessment at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, funded by a contract from the
Agency for Nuclear
Projects, State of Nevada, July 2003 June 2004, $40,000.
Principal Investigator for the project Statistical Analysis of Episodic Patterns of
Volcanism: Implications for
Volcanic Hazard Assessment at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, funded by a contract from the
Agency for Nuclear
Projects, State of Nevada, July 2002 June 2003, $34,000.
Principal Investigator for the project Statistical Analysis of Episodic Patterns of
Volcanism: Implications for
Volcanic Hazard Assessment at Yucca Mountain, Nevada, funded by a contract from the
Agency for Nuclear
Projects, State of Nevada, January 2002 June 2002, $17,000.
Statistical Consultant for the project The Effects of Substance Abuse on Child Welfare
Families
and Children and Levels of Intervention with Positive Toxicology Newborns and Related
Family Outcomes"
funded by State of Nevada Division of Children and Family Services, July 2000 June
2001, $50,000. (PI: An-Pyng
Sun)
Principal Investigator for the project A Report Summarizes the Statistical Modeling of
Nuclear Waste Repository
Site, funded by a grant from the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada, February
1996 December 1996,
$15,000.
Principal Investigator for the project Sensitivity Analysis on Smith s AMRV Model,
funded by a grant from the
Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada, October 1994 September 1995, $35,000.
Principal Investigator for the project A Compound Power-Law Model for Volcanic
Eruptions: Implications for Risk
Assessment of Volcanism at Proposed Nuclear Waste Repository at Yucca Mountain, Nevada,
funded by a grant
from the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada, October 1993 September 1994,
$35,000.
Principal Investigator for the project Sensitivity in Risk Assessment for the Yucca
Mountain High-Level Nuclear
Waste Repository Site: The Model and the Data, funded by a grant from the Nuclear Waste
Project Office, State of
Nevada, October 1992 September 1993, $30,000.
Principal Investigator for the project Risk Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level
Nuclear Waste
Repository Site, funded by a grant from the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of
Nevada, October 1991
September 1992, $30,000.
Principal Investigator for the project Time Trend Analysis of Basaltic Volcanism near
the Yucca Mountain Site,
funded by a grant from the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada, October 1991
September 1992,
$25,000.
Principal Investigator for the project The Mathematical Model of Volcanism at Yucca
Mountain, funded by a
grant from the Nuclear Waste Project Office, State of Nevada, October 1989 September
1990, $20,000.
Research Grants and Contracts Unfunded
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Co-PI for the project Infrastructure Development for a Bioinformatics Program,
submitted (November 2007) to
UNLV for $99,890.
Co-PI (with S. Qian, Y. Jiang, J. Q. Shen, and M. Yang at UNLV, and H. M. Gash, B.
Freeman, and Y. Ma at
NVCI) for the project
BBSI Nevada Bioengineering and Bioinformatics Summer Institute
submitted (November
29, 2005) to NSF for $431,749, January 1, 2006December 31, 2008
.
Principal Investigator for the project Fingerprinting International Decade Volcanoes,
submitted
to NASA, 03/01/0402/28/05, $16,000.
Principal Investigator for the project Fingerprinting and Time-Series Models for
International Decade Volcanoes,
submitted to NSF EPSCoR, 01/01/04 12/31/04, $20,000.
Principal Investigator for the project 3-D Poisson Process for Volcanic Hazard
Assessment, submitted to NSF,
01/01/96 12/31/97, $79,512.
Principal Investigator for the project Studies Determining the Usefulness of a Compound
Weibull Process Model in
Volcanology, submitted to NSF, 07/01/95 06/30/98, $55,905.
Work In Progress
Forward and backward tests for change-points detection problems.
Empirical recurrence rates and ARFIMA models for forecasting bank failures.
A new powerful test for quality control and reliability.
Meetings held in Toronto, Canada, August 13 - 18, 1994.
"A Simulation Study of a Change-Point Poisson Process Based on Two Well-known Test
Statistics," presented at the
conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific Computing, held at
the University of
Nevada, Las Vegas, June 23 - 25, 1994.
"The Role of the Bayesian Prior in Volcanic Risk Calculations at the Yucca Mountain
Nuclear Waste Repository
Site, U.S.A.," presented at the 2nd Annual Meeting of the International Society for
Bayesian Analysis held in
Alicante, Spain, June 10 - 11, 1994.
"Volcanism at the Yucca Mountain Nuclear Waste Repository Site, U.S.A.: A Decision
Analysis Perspective,"
presented at the 5th Valencia International Meeting on Bayesian Statistics held in
Alicante, Spain, June 5 - 9, 1994.
Alternative Geologic Models: Their Significance with Respect to Calculation of Volcanic
Hazard at Yucca
Mountain, Invited presentation (with E.I. Smith) in the meeting of the United States
Nuclear Waste Technical
Review Board s Panel on structural geology and geo-engineering, held on March 8 - 9, 1994
at San Francisco.
Sensitivity in Risk Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste
Repository Site: The Model and
the Data, invited speaker at the Fourth International Meeting and A Decade Volcano
Workshop held in Colima,
Mexico, January 24 - 28, 1994.
Sensitivity in Risk Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste
Repository Site, presented, as
an invited discussant, in the meeting of the National Academy of Sciences Committee on
the Technical Bases for
Yucca Mountain Standards, held on November 9 - 10, 1993 in Las Vegas, NV.
Comments on the Preliminary Draft of Los Alamos National Laboratory on the Status of
Volcanic Hazard Studies
for the Yucca Mountain Site Characterization Project, presented at the meeting of DOE-
NRC Technical Exchange
on Volcanism Studies held in Las Vegas on June 9, 1993.
"Risk Assessment for the Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Repository Site:
Estimation of Volcanic
Disruption," presented at the U.S. Technical Review Board's Panel on Structural Geology
and Geo-engineering in
TEACHING ACTIVITIES
Student Support via My Research Grants
Graduate: David Lerman, Andy Tsang, Heng Wei Cheng
Undergraduate: Andy Tsang, Elizabeth Freeman, Scott MacDonald
Thesis Advising Completed
Master: Hui Wang, Jenny Liu, Sandhya Gunti, Heng Wei Cheng, Wandong Fu, Qing Chen, Siqi
Tan, Fangjin Cui,
Annabelle Starks, and Blessed Quansah
Courses Taught at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, UNLV
Statistics: Introductory Statistics, Statistical Methods I & II, Statistics for
Scientists I & II, Applied Statistics for
Engineers, Probability Theory, Advanced Mathematical Statistics, Applied Regression
Analysis, Nonparametric
Statistics, Experimental Design, Multivariate Statistical Methods, Advanced Mathematical
Statistics, Decision
Theory, Analysis of Variance, Regression & Multivariate Analysis, Techniques of
Statistical Consultation, Statistical
Modeling & Computation. Point process - Modeling & Application
Mathematics: Algebra, Trigonometry, Finite Mathematics, Calculus
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SERVICE ACTIVITIES
Significant Professional Services
Principal investigator for the Yucca Mountain project, funded by the Agency for Nuclear
Projects, State of Nevada,
October 1989 - June 2004. (In the belief that a decision based on up-to-date information
and modern analytical
techniques are preferable to one based on less sophisticated analysis. The challenge is
to better address the question:
Does the possibility of a volcanic eruption pose a great enough risk to the public to
disqualify Yucca Mountain as a
nuclear waste repository?) I pursue this work with the conviction that I can actually
make a contribution in the site
characterization study whose solution is vital to the welfare of the State of Nevada and
the nation.
Reviewed (October 18, 1996) DOE Probabilistic Volcanic Hazard Analysis Report.
I testified (August 1, 1995) in the district court as witness (for statistical analysis)
on behalf of the State of Nevada in
a criminal action prosecuted by the state.
I was invited to participate in the meeting (held on November 9 - 10, 1993) of the
National Academy of Sciences'
Committee on the Technical Bases for Yucca Mountain Standards. I offered scientific
opinions on some important
elements that might form the technical bases for a site-specific standard to protect
public health and safety.
Conducted a four-day workshop of Statistical Analysis System (SAS) at the National Chung-
Hsing University,
Taiwan (April 23, 28, 30, and May 3, 1993).
I was invited to participate in the 2nd International Meeting and the 4th International
Meeting on Volcanology held
on January 20 - 24, 1992 and on January 24 - 28, 1994 respectively. Both meetings were
held at Colima, Mexico. I
was motivated by the potential value of my work to people who live under threat from the
world's restless volcanoes.
My contribution to the volcanic research program and risk mitigation plans was
acknowledged in a certificate of
recognition awarded by the Chief Committee Organizer.
I was invited to present the idea and application of Bayesian concepts to clinical
research by Hoechst-Roussel
Pharmaceuticals Inc. (April 16, 1992). They were interested in the methodologies that I
demonstrated in several of
my published papers in the area of clinical trials.
Participated in the cancer and biomedical joint research with faculty of the University
of Nevada School of Medicine
to produce advanced medical procedures (Murry Brown was saved by the revolutionary blood-
warming technique
developed by my coauthors, L. Gentilello et al., and supported by my statistical
analysis). It demonstrates that my
research and publication show a scholarship concerned with human and social betterment.
Reviewed Los Alamos National Laboratory Study Plan 8.3.1.8.1.1, Probability of Magmatic
Disruption of the
Repository.
University
Science and Engineering Facility Programming Committee (2000 - 2001)
Chairman of the Faculty Senate Appeals Committee (1 year, began Fall 1996)
University Research Grants and Fellowships Committee (3 years, began Fall 1996)
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Faculty Senate Appeals Committee (began Fall 1994, member for 2 years, chair for 1 year
and wrote new Committee
Bylaws)
Faculty Senate Special Hearing Committee (1 year, began Fall 1994)
Graduate College Faculty Representative/member of several MS/Ph.D. Examination
Committees.
College
Executive Committee (member, August 2000 - June 2001; July 2006 - June 2009
)
Peer Review Committee (3 years, began Fall 1998
)
Department
Department Chair (July 2006 - June 2009
)
Executive Committee (member, May 2005 - June 2009
)
Director, Center for Applied Statistics and statistical Advising (2 years, began Spring
2003
)
Ph.D. Proposal Committee (Fall 2002
)
Co-Associate Chairman (August 2000 - June 2001)
Graduate (2 years, began Fall 1998
)
Personnel/Promotion and Tenure
)
Advising (2 years, began Spring 1987)
Search Committee, Applied Statistics/Applied Analysis
(Chair, in 1996, 1998, 2004, and 2005; Member, 2003)
Proposed (with R. Dalpatadu) and successfully obtained a minor in actuarial science.
Developed a minor in statistics for the Math Department.
Restructured the statistical program (MAT 461, 462; STA 411, 412, 467, 491, 492).
Developed four new statistics graduate courses (STA 693, 695, 713, and 715) in 1986, and
initiated the courses in
1989.
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STATISTICAL CONSULTANT
I have acted as an in-house statistical consultant to different departments at UNLV, UN
School of Medicine, and
various organizations in Las Vegas since 1986.
A Simple Note: Statistical Consulting in a University
"Late on Friday afternoon (after 2:30 p.m.), I was working in my room struggling with a
tricky optimization problem,
namely how to position my chair and an open drawer of my desk to achieve the most
comfortable position in which
to rest while scanning The Annals of Statistics. A knock on my door disturbed my intense
concentration (this is not a
euphemism for it woke me up!), and into the room entered a person whom I had never met
before, but who
proceeded to inform me that he had a "small problem" with which he needed some
statistical help. Ever eager to
please I asked him to explain his problem, and was almost at once bombarded with words
and phrases such as
"visual cortex", "arrays of implanted electrodes," "phosphenes," "ghosts," etc., etc. I
eventually managed to stop the
flow and reminded my client that I was a statistician not a physiologist and that he
would need to explain his
problems using language I could understand. Clearly this came as a surprise, as if the
fact that a phosphene is a spot
of light seen by a blind person with an array of electrodes implanted onto the visual
cortex, when these electrodes are
stimulated by radio waves across the skull, was self evident! Nevertheless, I persevered
and eventually began to
understand what appeared to be a very interesting problem, and we began to discuss
possible approaches to its
solution. All of these involved a considerable amount of work on my part and I estimated
that it would take me at
least 3 months before I would have any answers. "Oh that's no use" was the reply, "I need
the results in the next 2
weeks so that I can finish writing up my M.D. thesis!" (I later discovered that the data
had taken 5 years to collect
and yes, the visit to me was the first to a statistician!)"
The quoted story was published by E.S. Everitt in Statistical Science, 1987, vol. 2, No.
2, p 107-134. It shows that
successful consulting generally requires both statistical skills and interpersonal
skills. The statistician's contribution
goes beyond just cranking out numbers. Statistical consulting is defined as the
collaboration of a statistician with
another professional for the purpose of devising solutions to research problems.
Statisticians in a university often
have a heavy consulting load and a strenuous teaching schedule. Clients come to a first
consultation with varied
expectations about what statistical consultants do. The most common roles that
consultants are expected to assume
are those of helper, leader, data-blesser, collaborator, and teacher. These roles and
others present several challenges.
This anecdote emphasizes the significant service I provide to helping each project
through to its completion. Each of
my clients (or collaborators) and I pool our talents and expertise to produce research
better than that which would
have occurred in the absence of statistical consultation. My involvement with several
projects in cooperation with
UNLV's biology department, geology department, and UN School of Medicine characterizes my
consultant role at
UNLV as unique in scope, important, and valuable.
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Another note: A Chinese essay written for my high school students quite a long time ago
Below is a Chinese essay that I wrote that elaborates my teaching philosophy. It was
published in the school bulletin
of a senior high school where I taught mathematics for three years, before I headed to
the USA for advanced degrees.
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Another note: A Chinese essay written for my high school students quite a long time ago
(cont.)
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