Michael Baron

Michael Baron
Professor of Statistics

Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Texas at Dallas

Office: ECSN 3.912
Email: mbaron at utdallas.edu
Phone: (972) UTD-6874
Fax: (972) UTD-6622

Mail
Address:

Department of Mathematical Sciences
The University of Texas at Dallas
800 W. Campbell Road
Richardson, TX 75080-3021

Research

Research areas:

Click on the links above to read about my recent research projects in these areas
... including my five doctoral students.

Courses in the Fall 2009

STAT 7338 Time Series Modeling and Filtering
on MW 5³⁰ - 6⁴⁵ pm in room CB3 1.314, formerly called AH3, which is the new building right near CBW

CS 3341/SE 3341 Probability and Statistics for Computer Science and Software Engineering
on MW 7⁰⁰ - 8¹⁵ pm in room ECSS 2.306

Textbook "Probability and Statistics for Computer Scientists"

I wrote this textbook for junior undergraduate through beginning graduate level students, and it can be used as the first course in Probability and Statistics. One semester of Calculus that includes limits, derivatives, and integrals, is assumed, although the main Calculus concepts are reviewed in Appendix. Each chapter has numerous examples and exercises. Instructors get a complete Solutions Manual. Matlab codes are supplied for impressive classroom demonstrations.

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Table of contents
     Introduction
     Probability
     Discrete random variables
     Continuous random variables
     Computer simulations and Monte Carlo methods
     Stochastic processes
     Queuing systems
     Introduction to Statistics
     Statistical inference
     Regression
     Appendix

Short Bio

Dr. Michael Baron is Professor of Statistics at the University of Texas at Dallas. Occasionally supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency, and the Semiconductor Technical Council, he conducts research in the areas of sequential analysis, change-point detection, and Bayesian inference, applying obtained results in epidemiology, clinical trials, energy finance, and semiconductor manufacturing. The last application brought M. Baron to IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he was a one-year Academic Visitor in 2003-04.

M. Baron has published a book, a number of research articles and book chapters, and gave an even greater number of invited presentations and seminars. In 2007, M. Baron received prestigious Abraham Wald prize for the best paper in sequential analysis. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Sequential Analysis. He is a member of the American Statistical Association and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis.

M. Baron has a University Diploma in Mathematics from St. Petersburg State University, Russia (1992), and a Ph.D. degree in Statistics from the University of Maryland (1995). His University Diploma paper entitled "On the First Passage Time for Queueing Processes" was supervised by Prof. Ildar Ibragimov, and his doctoral dissertation "Confidence Estimation in the Change-Point Problem" was supervised by Prof. Andrew Rukhin. In his turn, M. Baron graduated five doctoral students and is currently working on three more. During his free time, he plays piano, go, and ice hockey.

Michael Baron