Bovas Abraham

Bovas Abraham was the former director of the Institute for Improvement in Quality and Productivity.

Bovas has been a faculty member at the University of Waterloo in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science since 1977 and now retired. Bovas received his Bachelor of Science from the University of Kerala in India, he then obtained his MSc from the University of Guelph and his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison, U.S.A.

Bovas has been involved as a consultant in a wide range of statistical applications in industry in Canada and the United States. Some of these companies include: General Motors, Standard Products, Manchester Plastics, Wescast Industries, Imperial Oil, Nortel, and BF Goodrich. In addition to extensive consulting and teaching experience in the automotive and automotive suppliers industry, Bovas has been involved in consulting for the Ministry of the Environment.

His main areas of interest include Quality Improvement, and the management and implementation of statistical procedures such as Designed Experiments, SPC, and Time Series Analysis. He is co-author of the books "Statistical Methods for Forecasting", "Introduction to Regression Modeling" and the editor of a volume "Quality Improvement Through Statistical Methods".

Bovas is a Fellow of the American Society for Quality, a Fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and a member of the International Statistical Institute, International Environmetrics Society and the Statistical Society of Canada.