CLAS faculty named BOT Distinguished Professors

Richard Bass

Richard Bass, professor of mathematics and statistics, and Dipak Dey, professor and head of the Department of Statistics, were named Board of Trustees Distinguished Professors for 2008.

Bass, who received the Chancellor's Research Excellence Award in 2001, has an international reputation for his research in probability theory. He is known for using innovative probabilistic techniques to obtain results in harmonic analysis, partial differential equations, mathematical physics, and mathematical finance.

He is the editor of Transactions of the American Mathematics Society , a leading mathematics journal.

Dey, who received the 2005 Research Excellence Award from the UConn Alumni Association and the 2004 Research Excellence Award from the UConn Chapter of the American Association of University Professors, applies statistics to the study of areas such as public health.

Dipak Dey

His research interests include Bayesian modeling, computational statistics, decision theory, and statistical genetics.

He is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association and an elected member of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and of the International Statistical Institute.

Recently he was awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award of Purdue University, where he received his PhD degree.

The Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor title is the University's highest honor for faculty; only 5 percent of active faculty can hold the title. To date, 22 of the 39 BOT Distinguished Professors are members of the faculty of CLAS.