Hung T. Nguyen Selected as a Distinguished Lukacs Professor.

Professor Hung T. Nguyen from New Mexico State University has been selected as a Distinguished Lukacs Professor in Statistics at the Bowling Green State University for Spring 2002. This position is one of the world's most prestigious in mathematical statistics. Previous appointees include renown statisticians such as Gabor Szekely (1991), Anatoly Skorokhod (1994), and C.R. Rao (1998).

This position was established in 1989 in the memory of Eugene Lukacz, a world renown statistician. Lukacz's research covered many areas of statistics, including his pioneering analysis of robustness (stability) of statistical characterization results. Many theoretical results of mathematical statistics are based on certain assumptions about the corresponding distributions. In practice, these assumptions can only be checked with a certain accuracy; so, the natural question is: if we know that the assumption holds with a certain accuracy, is it true that the conclusion holds with some accuracy? The answer to this questions requires that we consider _classes_ of probability distributions, specifically, classes of all distributions which are consistent with the given measurement results and with the existing expert knowledge.

Professor Nguyen was selected for his numerous research accomplishments, including his 1970s results that fuzzy sets and their operations can be re-interpreted in more traditional statistical terms as appropriate classes of probability distributions, and his more recent interval-related research in which an interval is also interpreted as a class of all distributions located on it. Nguyen's results helped to make fuzzy and interval methods mainstream and acceptable to the statistical community. Congratulations!

--
Contact Information:

Hung T. Nguyen: Department of Mathematical Sciences
                            New Mexico State University
                            Las Cruces, NM 88003-8001 USA
                            Phone: (505) 646-2105
                            FAX:   (505) 646-1064
                            email: hunguyen@nmsu.edu

    cwtao@ilantech.edu.tw, weig@nat.uncp.edu, dubois@irit.fr, arasteha@cs.wnmu.edu,
    vql@aero.ufl.edu, zadeh@cs.berkeley.edu, elie.sanchez@medecine.univ-mrs.fr,
    qnguyen@miners.utep.edu, hirota@hrt.dis.titech.ac.jp, bamber@spawar.navy.mil,
    msgn@brain.riken.go.jp, nhphuong@fmail, pmd@maths.uq.edu.au, dinola@cds.unina.it,
    phuong-tran@hsc.com, noreen.chen@stanford.edu, ralescud@math.uc.edu,
    yager@panix.com, bernadette.bouchon-meunier@lip6.fr, valdez@math.utep.edu,
    roesmerc@yahoo.com, lisma@solaris.bjpu.edu.cn, phamgit@umoncton.ca,
    liya@iss.nus.edu.sg, nmata@lsi.upc.es