Dr. Robert Lund
About his Academic and Professional Experience
Robert Lund holds undergraduate and Masters degrees from Auburn University and has a PhD in Statistics at The University of North Carolina. He spent 11 years at the University of Georgia, where he was Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, and Full Professor, and also an Associate Head of the Statistics Department. He then was a Professor at Clemson University’s Department of Mathematical Sciences for 17 years. Currently, he is a Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Lund is a 2007 Fellow of the American Statistical Association and was the 2005-2007 Chief Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association, Reviews Section. He served as a National Science Foundation Program Manager from 2016-2018. Lund has graduated 25 PhD students and 11 Masters students to date.
Lund’s research interests
Lund’s research interests involve Markov chains, time series, statistical climatology, applied probability, and spatial statistics. Lund has authored more than 110 published refereed papers, a book, and five book chapters.
His most cited papers according to Google Scholar are “A review and comparison of changepoint detection techniques for climate data.” Journal of Applied Meteorology and Climatology (2007) and “Detection of undocumented changepoints: A revision of the two-phase regression model.” Journal of Climate (2002).
Lund’s most recent work involves trends in snow presence/absence in the Northern Hemisphere, changepoint methods, count time series, and statistical forensic fraud detection methods.