Professor
Phone: 407-823-2695
Local: CC2 201
email: mejohnso@mail.ucf.edu
Education
Ph.D Industrial and Management Engineering, 1976 – University of Iowa
M.S Industrial and Management Engineering, 1974 – University of Iowa
B.A Mathematics (with Highest Honors, Phi Beta Kappa), 1973 – University of Iowa
Memberships
American Society for Quality (Senior Member)
American Statistical Association (Fellow, 1988)
ASA representative, SRCOS, 1994.
ASA/IMS Annual Meetings, 1995, Local arrangements committee.
Biometric Society (ENAR)
Discussant, Random Variate Generation Invited Session, Winter Simulation Conference,CA, 1979
External Examiner, Dr. X. Chen, University of Waterloo, May 1996.
Institute of Mathematical Statistics
International Statistical Institute (Elected Member)
Member, NRC review committee on nuclear waste storage in bedded salt. December 4-8,1978.
Member, Program Committee, ASA Winter Conference, 1990.
Member, Program Committee, Interface Symposium, 1988.
Mhonk Conference, Orlando, May 1997, Program committee.
Program Chairman, SPES Section, American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, 1987.
Royal Statistical Society (Fellow and Chartered Statistician)
Research
Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology, statistician and professional team leader; Related hurricane research with Watson Technical Consulting and Kinetic Analysis Corporation Agency for Health Care Administration, expert witness Black Belt statistics instructor Multivariate Statistical Simulation, John Wiley & Sons, 1987 Various publications in mainline statistics journals (JASA, RSS, Technometrics, JQT, and so forth) More recently, publications in other discipline journals (BAMS, SPE, JIR, and so forth)
Biography
Dr. Mark Johnson is Professor of Statistics in the College of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Chartered Statistician with the Royal Statistical Society and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. He wrote the book Multivariate Statistical Simulation published by John Wiley and has received numerous awards for his research papers. In 1996 he started working in the area of hurricane risk modeling which has generated well over a million dollars in funding . He heads the professional team that audits computer hurricane models for insurance rate filings in the state of Florida and has also consulted with North Carolina and Massachusetts on hurricane modeling issues and catastrophic risk problems internationally.