Jerry Lawless

Jerry Lawless is a distinguished professor emeritus of Statistics and held the General Motors Canada - Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada Industrial Research Chair in Quality and Productivity from 1994 to 2004. Professor Lawless received his PhD from the University of Waterloo in 1969 and has been a faculty member there since 1972, serving as department chair from 1979-84. His research interests include biostatistics, survival and event history analysis, reliability, regression methodology, and process analysis.

He is the author of various papers and the book "Statistical Models and Methods for Lifetime Data" (John Wiley and Sons, 1982), and has served as a consultant to industry and government. Professor Lawless is a past editor of Technometrics and a past president of the Statistical Society of Canada. He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association (1983) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1990), and a recipient of the Gold Medal of the Statistical Society of Canada (1999). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2000.