Donald A. Darling Professor Emeritus of Statistics; Professor Emeritus of Industrial and Operations Engineering
He/him/
About
Vijay Nair retired from UM in 2017 and worked at Wells Fargo until 2025, where he was Managing Director and Head of an R&D group. The responsibilities included quantiative modeling in finance, machine learning, NLP, and GenAI. Over the years, he has contributed to research in risk analysis and machine learning, AI, engineering statistics, design and analysis of industrial experiments, reliability analysis, network tomography, and behavioral intervention research.
Courses Taught at UM:
- Statistics 535
- Statistics 570
- IOE 365 (now 265)
- IOE 645
Positions
- Donald A Darling Professor Emeritus of Statistics (2017-present)
- Managing Director and Head of R&D, Wells Fargo (2017-2025)
- Professor of Statistics, University of Michigan (1993-2017)
- Professor of Industrial and Operations Engineering, University of Michigan (1993-2017)
- Chair, Department of Statistics (1998-2010); On sabbatical during 2003-04
- Research Scientist, Bell Laboratories, NJ (1978-1993)
- Assistant Research Officer, Rubber Research Institute of Malaysia (1972-73)
- President, International Statistical Institute (2013-2015)
- President, International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (2011-13)
Professional Societies
- Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- Fellow of the American Statistical Association
- Fellow of the American Society for Quality
- Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
