453 West Hall
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
1085 South University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107
1783 Industrial and Operations Engineering Building
Department of Industrial and Operations Engineering
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2117
Phone: (734)-763-8018, (734)-647-0814
Fax: (734)-763-4676
E-Mail: 
Website: http://www.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~vnn
Research Interests
I have a broad range of interests in methodology, theory, and applications. I have worked in Engineering Statistics, Reliability and Degradation Modeling, Network Tomography, Design and Analysis of Experiments (including applications in Behavioral Intervention Research), and Quality Improvement.
Courses Taught
Statistics 535/ IOE 365, Statistics 504, IOE 645, IOE 365 (now 265)
Positions
Professor and Chair, Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
Professor, Dept. of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan
Professional Societies
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
Fellow of the American Statistical Association
Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute
Education
B.A. Economics (First Class Hons.), University of Malaya, 1972
Ph.D. Statistics, University of California, Berkeley, 1978
Identifying Dispersion Effects from Unreplicated Factorial Experiments: A Critical Analysis and Proposed Strategies,'' Technometrics, 2001, Vol. 43, pp 388-405. (joint with William Brenneman)
Edge-Detection, Spatial Smoothing and Image Reconstruction with Partially Observed Multivariate Data. Journal of the American Statistical Association 2003, pp 77-89 (joint with Sarat Dass)
A Strategy for Optimizing and Evaluating Behavioral Interventions. Annals of Behavioral Medicine 2005, pp 65-73 (joint with Linda Collins, Susan Murphy, and Victor Strecher)
Estimating Network Loss Rates Using Active Network Tomography, Journal of the American Statistical Association -- Theory and Methods, 2006 Vol.101, pp 1430-1448 (joint with Bowei Xi and George Michailidis)
Network Delay Tomography Using Flexicast Experiments, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series, B, 2006, Vol. 68, pp 785-813 (joint with Earl Lawrence and George Michaildis)
Statistical Aspects of Data Networks, Technometrics, 2007, pp.317-334 (joint with 2007 Denby, L., Landwehr, J. Mallows, C., Tucker, J., Xi, B., Michaildis, G)
Brumbaugh Award for best paper in industrial quality control (2002)
Jack Youden Prize for best expository paper in Technometrics (2001)
Brumbaugh Award for best paper in industrial quality control (2002)
Adolphe Quetelet Medal, International Statistical Institute (1999)
Frank Wilcoxon Prize for best practical applications paper in Technometrics (1986)
Central Bank of Malaysia Gold Medal (1972)