Kenneth J. Ryan

Assistant Professor

Applied Statistics and Operations Research

Bowling Green State University

Office: 349 Business Administration Building

Phone: (419) 372-2958

E-mail: kjryan@bgsu.edu

Web: http://www.cba.bgsu.edu/faculty_staff/ryan/

Academic Degrees:

• Ph.D. in Statistics, Iowa State University, (Ames, Iowa), 2001
• M.S. in Statistics, Iowa State University, (Ames, Iowa), 1999
• B.S. in Chemistry and Mathematics, Millikin University, (Decatur, Illinois), 1996

Academic Positions:

• Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Statistics and Operations Research, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, Ohio, August 2006-present.
• NSF Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Illinois at Chicago, 2002-2003.
• Lecturer, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, 2001-2002.
• Graduate Assistant, Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa, 1997-2001.

1. Teaching Experience

     A. Undergraduate Courses

• STAT 212, Elementary Statistical Methods II

2.  Research Interests

• Bayesian Statistical Methods
• Design of Experiments
• Reliability Analysis
• Time Series Analysis

3. Selected Publications

• Ryan, K.J., and Bulutoglu, D.A. E(s²) -Optimal Supersaturated Designs with Good Minimax Properties," (accepted for publication in Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference), 2006.
• Mieske, K.J. and Ryan, K.J., "On the Performance of Gupta's Subset Selection Rule," Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 136, 2004-2019, 2006.

• Reese, C.S., Wilson, A.G., Hamada, M., Martz, H.F., and Ryan, K.J., "Integrated Analysis of Computer and Physical Experiments," Technometrics, 46, 2, 153-164, 2004.
• Ryan, K.J., "Some Flexible Families of Intensities for Nonhomogeneous Poisson Process Models and Their Bayes Inference," Quality & Reliability Engineering International, 19, 171-181, 2003.
• Ryan, K.J., "Estimating Expected Information Gains for Experimental Designs with Application to the Random Fatigue-Limit Model," The Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 12, 3, 585-603, 2003.

Non-academic Positions

• Statistician, Information Resources Inc., Chicago, Illinois, 2004-2006.
• Statistician, Allstate Insurance Company, Northbrook, Illinois, 2003-2004.
• Graduate Research Assistant, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico, 2000.