Curriculum Vitae Mendel FYGENSON USC Marshall School of Business Los Angeles, CA 90089 Tel: (805) 570-2520; Fax: (213) 740-7313; e-mail: mfygenson@marshall.usc.edu Education Ph.D. Biostatistics, University of Michigan, August, 1987 M.A. Statistics, State University of New York at Buffalo, June, 1985 B.S. Statistics, Haifa University (Israel), July, 1982 B.A. Philosophy, Haifa University (Israel) July, 1982 Employment 1997- Present Associate Professor with Tenure 1995-1997 Assistant Professor 1989-1995 Assistant Professor of Statistics Department of Statistics Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 1988-1989 Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1987-1988 Instructor of Applied Mathematics Department of Mathematics Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA Honors and Awards Golden apple Teaching Award for Mega-Sections 1996, 1998 and 2002-2003. Gamma Sigma Alpha Professor of the year 1998, 2000 and 2003. Highest Award of Excellence, Department of Statistics, Haifa University, 1982 Highest Award of Excellence, Department of Philosophy, Haifa University, 1982
2 PhD Students Yuri Marynets (Economics). Graduation: May 2007. Dissertation topic: Executive Compensation-Theory and Applications Dmitri Kantsyrev (Economics). Graduation: May 2007. Dissertation topic: Analysts Optimism and Predicting Economic Cycles. Alexei Ravichev (Economics). Expected Graduation: May 2009. Dissertation topic: Auction Strategies in Sequential Settings. Professional Service Panelist for the National Science Foundation: Statistics and Probability (2002-2004, 2007) Social Sciences and Economics (2002-2005) Reviewer for: Annals of Statistics, Biometrics, Communications in Statistics, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Mathematical Bioscience Invited to a closed round table discussion on Financial Risk Analysis in Penn s Wharton School of business, June 2005-7. Refereed Publications M. Fygenson, Pessimistic Modeling in the Benchmark Dose Method with Application to Bromate in Drinking Water, Statistica Sinica, 20, 281-301 (2010). H. Wang and M. Fygenson, Inference for Censored Quantile Regression Models in Longitudinal Studies, the Annals of Statistics, Vol. 37, No. 2, 756-781 (2009). M. Fygenson, Modeling and Predicting Extrapolated Probabilities with Outlooks, with discussion Statistica Sinica, 18: 9-90 (2008). P.A. Pavlou and M. Fygenson, Understanding and Predicting Electronic Commerce Adoption: An Extension of the Theory of Planned Behavior, MIS Quarterly, 30: 115-143 (2006). M. Fygenson, Risk Assessment of Low Dose Exposure to Carcinogens, Trends in Mathematics, 65-75 (2001). M. Fygenson and J.B. Kemperman, The convexity structure of the logit transform of classical distributions, Second International Conference on Mathematical Methods in Reliability: Methodology, Practice and Inference 1: 422-425 (2000). M. Fygenson and S. Bar-Lev, Tests for Exponentiality Versus Increasing Failure Rate Alternatives, Far East Journal of Theoretical Statistics 4: 73-86 (2000).
3 M. Fygenson, A New Approach in Modeling a Categorical Response. Part I: The Binary Case, Journal of the American Statistical Association 92: 322-333 (1997). A. Cohen and M. Fygenson, Testing Homogeneity of Uniform Scale Distributions Against Two-Sided and One-Sided Alternatives, Journal of the American Statistical Association 90: 1062-1068 (1995). A. Cohen, M. Fygenson and H.B. Sackrowitz, Unbiased Testing of Treatments Against a Control, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics 22: 95-104 (1995). M. Fygenson and Y. Ritov, Monotone Estimating Equations for Censored Regression, Annals of Statistics 22: 732-746 (1994). M. Fygenson and M. Zhou, Regression and Analysis with right Censored Data, Annals of Statistics 22: 747-762 (1994). M. Fygenson and M. Zhou, Modification of the Koul Susarla & Van Ryzin Estimator for Linear Regression Models with Right Censoring, Statistics and Probability Letters 13: 295-299 (1992). M. Fygenson, Optimal Sequential Estimation for Semi-Markov & Markov Renewal Processes, Communications in Statistics 20: 1427-1444 (1991). M. Fygenson, A Fundamental Matrix for Regular Semi-Markov Processes, Stochastic Processes and their Applications 32: 151-160 (1989). Dissertation M. Fygenson, "Mathematical and Statistical Contributions in Semi-Markov Processes," Ph. D. Thesis, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, August, 1987 Advisor: Professor Anant M. Kshirsagar Seminar Presentations (Sept 2007) Defendable Standards For Beneficial Carcinogens: A Pessimistic Approach for Economic Analysis Institute for Empirical Research in Economics University of Zurich, Switzerland. (June 2007) (June 2007) Pessimistic Modeling and Inference in the Risk Evaluation of Carcinogens International Symposium on Recent Development of Statistics in Biological Sciences, Taipei, Taiwan. Extrapolating Conditional Probabilities of A Catastrophe
4 International Symposium on Recent Development of Statistics, Taipei, Taiwan. (April 2007) Pessimistic Modeling and Inference in the Risk Evaluation Department of Statistics, Stanford University. (March 2007) Classifying and Ordering Distribution According to Outlooks, Department of Mathematics, University of Arizona-Tuscan. (June 2006) (May 2006) (Dec 2003) (July 2000) (May 1999) (Oct 1997) (Sep 1996) (July 1996) (Mar 1996) (Feb 1995) (Feb 1995) Modeling probabilities with an outlook, FUR XII - 12th International Conference on the Foundations and Applications of Utility, Risk and Decision Theory, Rome, ITALY. Modeling and predicting probabilities with pessimism, Department of Statistics, UI Urbana-Champaign Model uncertainties in problems with catastrophic outcomes, Department of Statistics, UC Riverside The convexity structure of the logit transform of symmetric distributions, Proceedings in Reliability: Methodology, Practice and Inference, Bordeaux, FRANCE. Risk assessment of low dose exposure to carcinogens, Workshop on Statistical Methodology for Sciences: Environmetrics and Genetics, held in Ascona, Switzerland. "The impact of cross category promotion: the case of crosspromotion," Section: Cross Category Interaction in Product Perception and Choice. The Conference of the Association for Consumer Research, Tucson, AZ. A New Approach in Modeling Categorical Responses: The Binary Case, Department of Statistics and Operations Research, Stern School of Business, New York University Department of Statistics, Stanford University Department of Statistics, Technion Institute of Technology Department of Statistics, Columbia University Department of Information and Operations Management, Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California University Service Coordinator BUAD 310, IOM Department, USC, 1995 - Present
5 Member Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, USC, 1996-2000 Undergraduate Director, Statistics Department, Rutgers University, 1994 1995 University Consultant, Biostatistics Center, Rutgers University, 1992-1995 University Consultant, Statistics Center, MIT, 1988-1989 Ph.D. Examination Committee, Rutgers University, 1994 Master Examination Committee, Rutgers University, 1992-1994 Ph.D. Committee, Department of Civil Engineering, M.I.T, 1988 Teaching Experience Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 18.445J Stochastic Processes (graduate elective) Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 18.05 Introductory Probability and Statistics (undergraduate requirement) 18.465 Topics in Statistics (graduate elective) 18.457 Sampling, Simulation and Monte Carlo (graduate elective) Department of Statistics Rutgers University 16.960:211 Introductory Probability & Statistics (undergraduate requirement) 16.960:285 Business Statistics (undergraduate requirement) 16.960:563 Regression Analysis (graduate elective) 16.960:584 Biostatistics I (graduate elective) 16.960:585 Biostatistics II (graduate elective) 16.960:590 Design of Experiments (graduate elective) Department of IOM, Marshall School of Business, USC BUAD 310 Applied Business Statistics (undergraduate requirement) GSBA 524/514 Applied Managerial Statistics (MBA graduate requirement) GSBA Data Analysis in Accounting Methodologies (MA in Taxation /Auditing)