The Industrial Affiliates Program

The Statistics Department Industrial Affiliates Program was established to develop a practical relationship between the Department and University and the industrial community.

Establish Industry and Academia Relationships. This program is an opportunity to establish a knowledgeable working relationship between technical personnel in industry and University faculty.

Be the first to know. The Affiliates are informed of seminars and special talks so they have the opportunity to remain cognizant of the research progress within our department. Reports, preprints, and reprints are made available automatically to the Affiliates to facilitate the flow of information concerning new results and progress in specific areas. The availability of preprints circumvents publication delays of one or more years.

Get exposed to new results and techniques. Our annual conference surveys new results and techniques and explores their impact on current and anticipated future problems.

Work on real world problems. Statisticians require data! More importantly, we need to be in touch with the real world, to make sure we are working on relevant problems.

Evaluate employment opportunities. This association of industrial and academic participants also affords an excellent opportunity for an early evaluation of our graduate students and for them, in turn, to meet the senior research staff of the affiliate companies.