Gareth M. James

Gareth Michael James is the E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration and a professor of data sciences and operations at the USC Marshall School of Business, where he currently serves as interim dean. He also founded the Institute for Outlier Research in Business. (iORB)

Early life and education[]

Gareth M. James^[1] is a native of New Zealand. In 1994, he earned a bachelor of science and a bachelor of commerce from the University of Auckland, New Zealand, where he majored in statistics and finance. He was awarded a Fulbright Scholarship to study in the United States and attended Stanford University, where he earned a Ph.D. in statistics in 1998.

Career[]

James joined the faculty of the Information and Operations Management department at the USC Marshall School of Business in 1998. In 2013, he became professor of data sciences and operations, and he served as vice dean for faculty and academic affairs from 2013 to 2017. He was named E. Morgan Stanley Chair in Business Administration in 2014.

In 2019, James was named interim dean, serving after James G. Ellis and before Geoffrey Garrett, the current dean of the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania who will take the leadership role at the end of the 2019-2020 academic year. James founded Marshall’s Institute for Outlier Research in Business, which launched in 2017. iORB’s mission is to nurture and grow outlier research, defined as rigorous and relevant academic work that positively impacts the business community and society in general.

An expert in statistical methodology, James specializes in functional data analysis and high-dimensional statistics and their application in marketing. He has published extensively in peer-reviewed journals and is a co-author of one of the leading books on statistical learning methods. An Introduction to Statistical Learning with Applications in R was the winner of the 2014 Eric Ziegel award from Technometrics, a journal of statistics for the physical, chemical and engineering sciences.

He is an elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association, a life member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and a member in good standing with Phi Kappa Phi.

Family[]

James is married and has two children. His wife is a member of the public health faculty at UCLA.

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