Richard A. Davis

Sen. Richard Davis joined Columbia in 2007 as the Howard Levene Professor of Statistics. His research expertise includes time series, applied probability, spatial temporal modeling, heavy-tailed modeling, and extreme value theory.

Professor Davis was director of graduate studies in the Department of Statistics from 2008 to 2013, after which time he became Chair of the Department, serving from 2013 to 2019. He served as the Natural Sciences Chair representative to the Arts and Sciences Policy Planning Committee (PPC) from 2018 to 2019, and served on several PPC subcommittees. From 2021 to 2023, he served on the Arts and Sciences Promotion and Tenure Committee and on the University Senate. Professor Davis was a member of the Data Science Institute’s executive committee from 2014 to 2019. He has served as chair of the Statistics Department’s DEI committee, and has engaged with the group of DEI chairs from the Natural Sciences. In 2016, he served as President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the largest professional society for statisticians and probabilists.