April 1, 2011
Dennis C. Gilliland – Curriculum Vitae
Home Address:
4348 Heartwood Road, Okemos, MI 48864 Office Address:
Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, E. Lansing, MI 48824
(517)353­7820 gilliland@stt.msu.edu
Education:
B.A., summa cum laude in Mathematics, Kent State University, 1959
Case Institute of Technology Honors Fellow, Cleveland, Ohio, 1960 – 61
M.S. in Mathematics, Michigan State University, 1963
Ph.D. in Statistics, Michigan State University, 1966
Industrial Experience:
Laborer, Chase Bag Company, Chagrin Falls, Ohio, summer 1957
Laborer, Cormax Metal Treating Company (part­time), Burton, Ohio, 1957 – 59
Development Engineer, Goodyear Aerospace Corporation, Akron, Ohio, 1959 – 60, 1961 – 62
Consultant, Goodyear Aerospace Corporation, Akron, Ohio, 1960 – 61, 1963 – 65
Academic Experience:
Visiting Lecturer, Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1966 – 67
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, 1966 – 69
Associate Professor, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, 1969 – 74
Professor, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, 1974 –
Visiting Scholar, University of Chicago, 1982
Adjunct Professor, Cooley Law School, Lansing, Michigan, 1990
Adjunct Professor, Michigan State University College of Law, 2006 –
Administrative Experience: Chairperson, Department of Statistics and Probability, Michigan State University, 1985 – 89
Director/Co­Director, Statistical Consulting Service, Dept. of Statistics and Probability, 1986 – 97, Spring 2004
Co­Director, MSU Center for Statistical Training and Consulting, Michigan State University, 2004 – 07
Professional Societies:
American Society for Quality, 1986 – 2001
American Statistical Association, 1964 –
Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1963 –
Michigan Political History Society, Charter Member, 1994 –
Awards/Honors:
Winner, Freshman Mathematics Competition, Ohio University, 1956
Senior Mathematics Award, Kent State University, 1959
Case Institute of Technology Honors Fellow, 1960 – 61
American Statistical Association, Outstanding Member Award, MidMichigan Chapter, 1989
American Society for Quality Control, Section Distinguished Excellence in Quality Award, 1989
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
American Statistical Association, MidMichigan Chapter Service Award, 2010
Professional Service (Examples):
Journal Refereeing: S&P Letters, JASA, AMS, AS as examples; Proposal Evaluation: NSF, AURIG as examples
Program Committees: ASA, ASQC, IMS, INTERFACE as examples
MAA Visiting Lecturer to High Schools, 1978 – 82
Member, Technical Advisory Subcommittee of Michigan Public Service Commission, 1981
Member, ASA National Committee on Government Statistics, 1985 – 86
Director, Big Ten Salary Survey, 1985 – 89
Charter President, MidMichigan Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 1985
Member, Ad Hoc Committee for Outreach, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1989
Organizer, Conference on Education in Statistical Quality and Productivity for Michigan Industry,
East Lansing, 1986
Presenter, College of Natural Science LINK Program, 1988 – 94
Member, Ad Hoc Committee for Nomination of Robert Stempel for Honorary Ph.D., 1989
Chairperson, IMS Membership Survey Subcommittee, 1989 – 92
Chairperson, Organizing Committee, Michigan Conference on Teaching and Use of Statistical
Theory and Methods, 1990
Consultations/Outreach to minority owned businesses, Industrial Development Institute, Michigan State
University, 1990
Instructor, Statistics for Lawyers , Cooley Law School, Lansing, MI, 1990
Reviewer, Statistics Program at Purdue University/Indiana University – Indianapolis, 1991
Member of Proposal Committee and Planning Committee, Ford/Michigan State University
Partnership in Quality, 1994 – 95
President, MidMichigan Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 1994 – 98
Chairperson of Quality Month Activities, Lansing­Jackson Section of ASQC, 1995
Delivered Workshop in Statistics, Graduate School, Michigan State University, 1996 Developed and delivered workshops and short courses to the Michigan Department of State and
the Michigan Department of Agriculture, 1992 – 96 Presenter, Workshops sponsored by the School of Packaging, 1989 – 99 Invited Speaker, Frontiers in Mathematics and Science Program, 1996 – 98
Invited Speaker, Midwest Conference on Teaching Statistics, Oshkosh, WI, 1997
Invited Speaker, MSU Chapter of Society of Women Engineers, 1998 Faculty Advisor, DREAMS Summer Research Program, 1998
Teacher, Michigan State University Champ­Plus Program, 1998 – 2000
Invited Speaker, Ingham County Intermediate School District Program “Gotta Teach”, 1999
Consultant, State of Michigan Court of Appeals, Delay Reduction Taskforce, 2002 – 05
Associate, Teachers for a New Era Project, Michigan State University, 2004 – 06
Quantitative Literacy Taskforce Member, Michigan State University, 2004 – 05
Technical Assistance Consultant, Sterile Barrier Integrity Task Group, IoPP Medical Device Packaging
Committee, 2004 – 05
President, MidMichigan Chapter of the American Statistical Association, 2005 and 2006
Presenter, PROM/SE Making Decisions Based on Data and Chance to high school teachers in Michigan
and Ohio, 2005 and 2006
Instructor, Analytical Methods for Lawyers – Statistics, Michigan State University College of Law, 2006 – 07
Presenter, Frontiers Programs in Biological and Physical Science for High School Teachers, 2007 Presenter, Grandparents University Program, College of Natural Science, Michigan State University, 2007
University Committee on Liberal Learning Member, Michigan State University, 2007 – 08
Public Service:
Member and Vice President, OAKS, Okemos, 1972 – 75
Member, many times President, MSU Takedown Club, 1974 – 87
Okemos Boosters Executive Committee, 1977 – 80
MSU President's Club, 1984 – 90
MSU Beaumont Tower Society, 1990 – 2005
MSU John Hannah Society, 2005 – 09
Michigan Parade Committee, 2002 – 06
Michigan State University, Sesquicentennial Parade Committee, 2004 – 05
City of Lansing, Lansing 150 Parade Committee, 2009
MSU Jonathan L. Snyder Society, 2009 –
Consulting (Academia):
Consultant to numerous faculty and graduate students, 1967 –
Private Consulting:
Consultant to attorneys and industry, 1974 –
Consultant, Michigan Department of State, Bureau of Elections, 1974 –
Consultant on contested elections and/or recounts in congressional, senatorial and gubernatorial
elections in Michigan, Arizona, Connecticut, New Jersey, North Carolina, Washington, 1980 –
Designed and implemented ascertainment surveys and/or utility pole surveys in Michigan, Indiana,
Illinois, Maryland, 1981 –
Consultant on numerous cases and projects within twelve departments/agencies/courts, State of Michigan, 1974 –
Consultant on cases with United States Department of Justice, 2007 –
Grants:
National Science Foundation, 1968 – 69, 1971 – 75, 1977 – 81 (with J. Hannan)
Michigan Research and Economic Development, 1986
United States Department of Agriculture, 1986 – 87
United States Department of Agriculture, 1987 – 89
Michigan Department of Mental Health, 1988 – 89
National Science Foundation (to equip a computer laboratory), 1990 – 91
Institute of Mathematical Statistics (to design and administer a membership survey), 1992
Strategic Partnership Grant, Michigan State University Foundation, 2004 – 2007 (with C. Page)
Quantitative Literacy Study, Michigan State University Quality Funds, 2006 – 2011 (with V. Melfi)
Ph.D. Students:
Merrilee K. Helmers, On the continuity of Bayes response, 1972
Thomas E. O’Bryan, Empirical Bayes results in the case of non­identical components, 1972
Robert J. Ballard, Extended rules for the sequence compound decision problem with m x n component,
1974
John E. Boyer, Some admissibility considerations in the finite state compound and empirical Bayes
decision problems, 1976
How Jan Tsao, On the risk performance of Bayes empirical Bayes procedures in the finite component
case, 1980
Tze Fen Li, On asymptotic optimality of Bayes empirical Bayes estimators, 1981
Rohana J. Karunamuni, Empirical Bayes with sequential component, 1985
K. L. D. Gunawardena, Extended rules for the classification of dependent parameters, 1988
Inha Jung, Parametric empirical Bayes problems with cost for component observations, 1988
Zhihui Liu, Set compound estimation in exponential families with entropy loss, 1997
(co­director J. Hannan)
Lei Chen, Applications of play against past strategies in repetitions of a game, 1997
Fanzhi Kong, Bayesian modeling on inhomogeneous point patterns via independent increment random
measures, 2002 (co­director O. Schabenberger)
Mingfei Li, Repeated games, 2008