David Banks

David Banks is a Professor of the Practice in the Department of Statistical Science at Duke University, where he earned his PhD in statistics in 1984 from Virginia Tech. His academic career includes positions at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Cambridge, as well as six years in various federal government roles at NIST, the DOT, and the FDA. His research focuses on evidence-based public policy, adversarial risk analysis, dynamic text networks, statistical computation, and metabolomics. Banks has served as an editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association and was the founding editor of Statistics and Public Policy. He has led data mining research initiatives at the Isaac Newton Institute and the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute, served two terms on the Board of Directors of the American Statistical Association, and currently holds a position on the board of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. Additionally, he is the president of the International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics and a past president of the Classification Society.