Michael is Professor of Statistics at Indiana University in Bloomington, IN.
Michael received his BA degree in mathematics from Rice University in 1978 and went onto do a PhD degree in statistics from the University of California at Berkeley, in 1983. He has held faculty positions at the University of Arizona, the College of William & Mary, and Indiana University, where he currently chairs the Department of Statistics. He is the author of an introductory textbook, An Introduction to Statistical Inference and Its Applications with R. His research interests include euclidean representations of proximity data, nonlinear dimension reduction, computer experiments, and stochastic optimization.
