Noel Cressie

Distinguished Professor of the School of Mathematics and Applied Statistics University of Wollongong

Noel Cressie is the Director of the Centre for Environmental Informatics in the National Institute for Applied Statistics Research Australia (NIASRA) and Distinguished Professor at the University of Wollongong, Australia. He is also Adjunct Professor at the University of Missouri. Cressie received his BSc (Hons) from the University of Western Australia and an MA and PhD from Princeton University, USA. His past appointments have been at The Flinders University of South Australia, Iowa State University, and The Ohio State University. He has published in the areas of goodness-of-fit, statistical modelling, empirical-Bayesian and Bayesian methods, remote sensing, and spatial and spatio-temporal statistics. Cressie is the recipient of the 2009 COPSS R.A. Fisher Award, the Statistical Society of Australia’s 2014 Pitman Medal, the Royal Statistical Society’s 2016 Barnett Award, the Institute for Mathematical Geosciences 2017 Matheron Award, and in 2018 he was elected a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science.