After spending 26 years at Colorado State University, Richard Davis joined the Statistics Department at Columbia University in 2007. Davis received a PhD degree in Mathematics in 1979 from the University of California at San Diego, where he studied under the direction of Professor Murray Rosenblatt. He spent two years, 1979-1981, as an Instructor in Applied Mathematics at MIT before joining CSU as an Assistant Professor in Statistics. He has also held visiting appointments at several institutions, including the Center for Stochastic Processes at the University of North Carolina, the University of California at San Diego, the University of New South Wales, and the Melbourne Institute of Technology. Davis is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association, and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He is co-author (with Peter Brockwell) of the best selling books, Time Series: Theory and Methods , Introduction to Time Series and Forecasting , and the time series analysis computer software package, ITSM 2000 . In 1998, he won (with collaborator W.T.M Dunsmuir) the Koopmans Prize for Econometric Theory. He has been on the editorial boards of Stochastic Processes and Their Applications , Annals of Applied Probability , and the Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference. Currently, he is Associate Editor of Bernoulli and Extremes and serves as co-organizer (with James Stock of Harvard University and Ruey Tsay of the University of Chicago) of the annual time series workshops sponsored by the National Bureau of Economic Research and the National Science Foundation. With colleagues in the statistics department at CSU, he was awarded an EPA-STAR grant in 2001 that is used to support the Department's Space-Time Aquatic Resources Modeling and Analysis Program (STARMAP). In addition, the Departments of Biology, Mathematics and Statistics, along with quantitative ecologists at CSU, were awarded a NSF IGERT entitled "PRogram for Interdisciplinary Mathematics, Ecology, and Statistics (PRIMES)". Davis is the PI of the grant and with Don Estep, is co-director of PRIMES. He served as Chair of the Department of Statistics at CSU from 1997 to 2005.

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