Prof. David Steinberg

David M. Steinberg is Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics and Operations Research at Tel Aviv University and recently completed a four-year term as Chair of the School of Mathematical Sciences there. He has published more than 130 papers in refereed journals along with several book chapters and about 15 papers in conference proceedings. His field of research specialization is the statistical design of experiments, including factorial experiments, Latin hypercubes, computer experiments, robust parameter design experiments and seismic networks. He has worked on numerous applications in a variety of fields. For 10 years he headed the Statistical Laboratory at Tel Aviv University and was a collaborator in a great deal of medical research in that capacity.

In 2013 he received the George Box Medal from the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (ENBIS). In 2017 he was awarded the Walter Shewhart Medal from the American Society for Quality. Both awards recognize lifetime contributions to research in quality and in industrial statistics.

From 2008-2010, he served as Editor of the leading journal Technometrics (and as Editor-Elect during 2007). He is currently on the editorial boards of Technometrics, the Journal of Quality Technology, the International Statistical Review and the Journal of Uncertainty Quantification. He was Section Editor for Experimental Design for the Wiley Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability.