Professor
Hamparsum BozdoganProfile page
Business Analytics & Stat
Orcid identifier0000-0002-8238-7469
- Business Analytics & Stat
- bozdogan@utk.edu (Work)
- (865) 974-9311 (Work)
- University of Tennessee at Knoxville, Business Analytics & Statistics, 245 SMC, Knoxville, Tennessee, 37996, United States
BIO
PROF. HAMPARSUM “HAM” BOZDOGAN, PH.D.
TOBY McKenzie Professor
Department of Business Analytics and Statistics
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996, U.S.A.
Phone: (865) 974-1635 Office Fax: (865) 974-2490
E-Mail: bozdogan@utk.edu
http://bas.utk.edu/our-department/faculty/hbozdogan.asp
“Research is to teaching as sin is to confession without the one there is not much to say about the other."
-On the Wall of National Science Foundation
Prof. Dr. Hamparsum ("Ham") Bozdoğan, a Turkish-Armenian doyen in the Statistical Sciences of Model Selection and Information Complexity, was born in Caesarea (Kayseri), an ancient cultural city in central Turkey to a modest Turkish-Armenian Christian family. Caesarea (Kayseri) is nestled in the foothills of the majestic Mount Erciyes (12,700 feet), the ancient Mount Argaeus, an inactive volcano hovering over the central Anatolian plateau.
Dr. Bozdoğan’s father was a master brick maker who produced red bricks used in construction using manual labor. He was an extraordinarily capable person with no formal educational training. He provided the mastery of making the finest bricks, while his partners provided the capital. Growing up, both his older brother (who is a retired Senior Researcher at MIT in Cambridge, MA) and Dr. Bozdogan helped their father with things like bookkeeping, dealing with banks, disbursement of wages to workers, and various daily chores at a young age.
Professor Bozdogan completed his high-school education with top honors from the Atatürk Lyceum for Men in Istanbul 1964. He matriculated at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as an undergraduate and completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in 1970. Later, he received both of his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics in 1978 and 1981, respectively, from the University of Illinois at Chicago majoring in Probability and Statistics (Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Model Selection) with a full minor in Operations Research.
Currently, Dr. Bozdogan is Toby McKenzie Professor in Business, Information Complexity and in Model Selection in the Department of Business Analytics and Statistics, at the Haslam College of Business of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, which was granted to him effective as of July 1999 by the generous contributions of Mr. McKenzie and his family. This appointment to a new position of distinguished professorship within the College of Business as the first McKenzie Professor, is intended to allow Dr. Bozdogan to:
"Foster integrated, cross-functional, research and education across the College, and in fact across the University, to bring together advances in statistical and information sciences with the evolving needs and demands of the business world."
Dr. Bozdogan is also a faculty affiliate member in:
• The Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning (CISML),
• The Institute of Biomedical Engineering, and at
• The Department of Mathematics.
Dr. Bozdogan joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee in the Fall of 1990. Prior to coming to the University of Tennessee he was on the faculty of the University of Virginia in the Department of Mathematics, and was a Visiting Associate Professor and Research Fellow at the prestigious“Akaike’s Institute,” The Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo, Japan during 1988. During this year, he received the prestigious Research Assignment Leave Award from the Graduate School of Advanced Studies from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Bozdogan is a nationally and internationally recognized renowned expert in the area of information-theoretic statistical modeling and model selection. In particular, on the celebrated Akaike’s (1971) Information Criterion (AIC), he has extended its range of applications broadly, and has identified and repaired its lack of consistency with a new criterion of his own which is now being used in many statistical software packages including SAS, JMP, EQS, etc. Dr. Bozdogan is the developer of a new model selection and validation criterion called ICOMP (ICOMP for ‘information complexity’). His new criterion for model selection cleverly seeks, through information theoretic ideas, to find a balance among badness of fit, lack of parsimony, and profusion of complexity in high-dimensional complex data structures by combining scalability properties in data mining. From this basic work, he has undertaken the technical and computational implementation of the criterion to many areas of applications. These include: choosing the number of component clusters in mixture-model cluster analysis, determining the number for factors in Frequentist and Bayesian factor analysis, dynamic econometric modeling of food consumption and demand in the U.S. and the Netherlands, detecting influential observations in vector autoregressive models, to mention a few. His results elucidate many current inferential problems in statistics in linear and nonlinear multivariate models and ill-posed problems. Many doctoral students at UT, in US, and around the world, are currently using his informational modeling techniques.
Professor Bozdogan has been trained in a modern-school of thought in Statistics which was pioneered by Professor Hirotugu Akaike in Japan in 1971, a world renowned Japanese Statistician. Because of this, he has been often labeled as a new breed of “Informational-Japanese-School” Statistician. His research specialization and interests are in:
• Healthcare analytics, medical data mining, statistical modeling approach to cancer detection.
• High dimensional intelligent multivariate data mining:
o Combinatorial classification and mixture-model cluster analysis problems for pattern recognition;
o Linear and nonlinear multivariate models and structural complexity;
o Covariance complexity measure; complexity of inverse-Fisher information matrix (ICOMP) as a criterion for model identification.
o Model selection problems in machine learning.
• Statistical Information Theory & Entropy Complexity.
• Bayesian Modeling and Econometric Modeling.
• Symbolic open architecture statistical computing in macro language environment:
o Evolutionary and genetic algorithms;
o Developing expert information-theoretic statistical techniques for data mining.
Today, in the information age we live in, with increasingly sophisticated technology for gathering and storing data, many organizations and businesses collect massive amounts of data including electronic data at accelerated rates. We live in a world of high dimensional “big data”. Big data enterprise is growing very rapidly, and they are here to stay and are pervasive.
Therefore, Dr. Bozdogan’s current research innovations during the past decade, has triggered numerous practical applications in science, engineering, business, and in healthcare analytics and medicine with significant implications in developing intelligent hybrid models between any complex modeling problem, genetic algorithms (GA’s) and his information complexity criterion as the fitness function. Coupled with this, his current research is focused in a long-standing problem of model selection under misspecification. He is developing new techniques, which are robust and misspecification resistant. This is important because this new approach provides researchers and practitioners with knowledge of how to guard against the misspecification of the model as we actually fit and evaluate these models and guard against potential outliers in the data set. In practice, almost always researchers and practitioners alike misspecify their models for a given particular data set. In this sense, these new developments and results are very important in many areas of applied and basic research (e.g., in business analytics, engineering, social and behavioral, and medical data mining in computer-aided detection of breast cancerous tumors in mammographic images, which is currently ignored). He is further developing new tools for cancer classification from gene expression data in high-dimensions for undersized samples where the covariance matrix degenerates and is not computable to reduce the dimension to accurately classify the cancerous tissues and select the best genes for treatment protocols.
Dr. Bozdogan is the recipient of many distinguished teaching and research awards such as:
• The University of Tennessee Jefferson Faculty Prize Award for 2006. The Jefferson Prize was established through an endowment by an anonymous donor who wanted to recognize tenured or tenure-track faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in research and creative activity or have made other significant achievements that might not be recognized in the usual university reward system.
• The Bank of America Faculty Leadership Medal Award of the College of Business Administration (CBA) during April 2001. This award is given to a member of the faculty in good standing as determined by the committee; Demonstrated willing and significant work with students in classroom activities that encourage the development of student leadership skills; Demonstrated leadership in activities outside the classroom involving colleagues both inside and outside of the College of Business pertaining to curriculum innovation and/or development; Demonstrated leadership in academic professional organizations; Demonstrated leadership including elected or appointed positions within professional organizations, UT organizations or community, national, international, or regional organizations and charitable organizations.
• The Hoechst Roussel Teaching and Research Award of the College of Business Administration of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville Tennessee. This award is given to an outstanding faculty member in the College of Business Administration each year who uniquely combines and demonstrates the importance and effectiveness of their teaching and research in the classroom by what they have created through their research program. April, 1997.
• Won World Research Competition Award in Applied Econometric Modeling among 28 worldwide participating teams to forecast U.S. and Dutch food consumption during September 1996.
• Chancellor’s Award for Research and Creative Achievement, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), April 7, 1993. This award is given each year to 10 UTK faculty who have recently made significant contributions in their field of study. The award includes $2,500 cash prize and Chancellor’s Certificate of Citation.
He has received many other outreach and international awards and nominations as a finalist in teaching and research.
Dr. Bozdogan’s work has been published in many diverse and leading journals.
• He has published over 75 research articles.
• He is the editor of six books.
• Dr. Bozdogan is a member of many professional societies and serves as the Editor, and Editorial Board of seven journals and he is a referee to many prestigious statistical journals.
• Dr. Bozdogan currently writing three books.
• He has produced about 20 Ph.D. students, and 43 Master’s students.
• He has produced 6 post-doctoral scholars.
• He has served on 50 doctoral committees.
• Currently directing 2 Ph.D. students.
Dr. Bozdogan serves on the International Advisory Board of the Dean of the School of Business of the Istanbul University.
He is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences, and he is on program committees in many international scientific conferences.
His hobbies include social networking in scientific collaboration, traveling, learning other languages and cultures.
TOBY McKenzie Professor
Department of Business Analytics and Statistics
The University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN 37996, U.S.A.
Phone: (865) 974-1635 Office Fax: (865) 974-2490
E-Mail: bozdogan@utk.edu
http://bas.utk.edu/our-department/faculty/hbozdogan.asp
“Research is to teaching as sin is to confession without the one there is not much to say about the other."
-On the Wall of National Science Foundation
Prof. Dr. Hamparsum ("Ham") Bozdoğan, a Turkish-Armenian doyen in the Statistical Sciences of Model Selection and Information Complexity, was born in Caesarea (Kayseri), an ancient cultural city in central Turkey to a modest Turkish-Armenian Christian family. Caesarea (Kayseri) is nestled in the foothills of the majestic Mount Erciyes (12,700 feet), the ancient Mount Argaeus, an inactive volcano hovering over the central Anatolian plateau.
Dr. Bozdoğan’s father was a master brick maker who produced red bricks used in construction using manual labor. He was an extraordinarily capable person with no formal educational training. He provided the mastery of making the finest bricks, while his partners provided the capital. Growing up, both his older brother (who is a retired Senior Researcher at MIT in Cambridge, MA) and Dr. Bozdogan helped their father with things like bookkeeping, dealing with banks, disbursement of wages to workers, and various daily chores at a young age.
Professor Bozdogan completed his high-school education with top honors from the Atatürk Lyceum for Men in Istanbul 1964. He matriculated at the University of Wisconsin in Madison as an undergraduate and completed his Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics in 1970. Later, he received both of his M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics in 1978 and 1981, respectively, from the University of Illinois at Chicago majoring in Probability and Statistics (Multivariate Statistical Analysis and Model Selection) with a full minor in Operations Research.
Currently, Dr. Bozdogan is Toby McKenzie Professor in Business, Information Complexity and in Model Selection in the Department of Business Analytics and Statistics, at the Haslam College of Business of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee, which was granted to him effective as of July 1999 by the generous contributions of Mr. McKenzie and his family. This appointment to a new position of distinguished professorship within the College of Business as the first McKenzie Professor, is intended to allow Dr. Bozdogan to:
"Foster integrated, cross-functional, research and education across the College, and in fact across the University, to bring together advances in statistical and information sciences with the evolving needs and demands of the business world."
Dr. Bozdogan is also a faculty affiliate member in:
• The Center for Intelligent Systems and Machine Learning (CISML),
• The Institute of Biomedical Engineering, and at
• The Department of Mathematics.
Dr. Bozdogan joined the faculty of the University of Tennessee in the Fall of 1990. Prior to coming to the University of Tennessee he was on the faculty of the University of Virginia in the Department of Mathematics, and was a Visiting Associate Professor and Research Fellow at the prestigious“Akaike’s Institute,” The Institute of Statistical Mathematics in Tokyo, Japan during 1988. During this year, he received the prestigious Research Assignment Leave Award from the Graduate School of Advanced Studies from the University of Virginia.
Dr. Bozdogan is a nationally and internationally recognized renowned expert in the area of information-theoretic statistical modeling and model selection. In particular, on the celebrated Akaike’s (1971) Information Criterion (AIC), he has extended its range of applications broadly, and has identified and repaired its lack of consistency with a new criterion of his own which is now being used in many statistical software packages including SAS, JMP, EQS, etc. Dr. Bozdogan is the developer of a new model selection and validation criterion called ICOMP (ICOMP for ‘information complexity’). His new criterion for model selection cleverly seeks, through information theoretic ideas, to find a balance among badness of fit, lack of parsimony, and profusion of complexity in high-dimensional complex data structures by combining scalability properties in data mining. From this basic work, he has undertaken the technical and computational implementation of the criterion to many areas of applications. These include: choosing the number of component clusters in mixture-model cluster analysis, determining the number for factors in Frequentist and Bayesian factor analysis, dynamic econometric modeling of food consumption and demand in the U.S. and the Netherlands, detecting influential observations in vector autoregressive models, to mention a few. His results elucidate many current inferential problems in statistics in linear and nonlinear multivariate models and ill-posed problems. Many doctoral students at UT, in US, and around the world, are currently using his informational modeling techniques.
Professor Bozdogan has been trained in a modern-school of thought in Statistics which was pioneered by Professor Hirotugu Akaike in Japan in 1971, a world renowned Japanese Statistician. Because of this, he has been often labeled as a new breed of “Informational-Japanese-School” Statistician. His research specialization and interests are in:
• Healthcare analytics, medical data mining, statistical modeling approach to cancer detection.
• High dimensional intelligent multivariate data mining:
o Combinatorial classification and mixture-model cluster analysis problems for pattern recognition;
o Linear and nonlinear multivariate models and structural complexity;
o Covariance complexity measure; complexity of inverse-Fisher information matrix (ICOMP) as a criterion for model identification.
o Model selection problems in machine learning.
• Statistical Information Theory & Entropy Complexity.
• Bayesian Modeling and Econometric Modeling.
• Symbolic open architecture statistical computing in macro language environment:
o Evolutionary and genetic algorithms;
o Developing expert information-theoretic statistical techniques for data mining.
Today, in the information age we live in, with increasingly sophisticated technology for gathering and storing data, many organizations and businesses collect massive amounts of data including electronic data at accelerated rates. We live in a world of high dimensional “big data”. Big data enterprise is growing very rapidly, and they are here to stay and are pervasive.
Therefore, Dr. Bozdogan’s current research innovations during the past decade, has triggered numerous practical applications in science, engineering, business, and in healthcare analytics and medicine with significant implications in developing intelligent hybrid models between any complex modeling problem, genetic algorithms (GA’s) and his information complexity criterion as the fitness function. Coupled with this, his current research is focused in a long-standing problem of model selection under misspecification. He is developing new techniques, which are robust and misspecification resistant. This is important because this new approach provides researchers and practitioners with knowledge of how to guard against the misspecification of the model as we actually fit and evaluate these models and guard against potential outliers in the data set. In practice, almost always researchers and practitioners alike misspecify their models for a given particular data set. In this sense, these new developments and results are very important in many areas of applied and basic research (e.g., in business analytics, engineering, social and behavioral, and medical data mining in computer-aided detection of breast cancerous tumors in mammographic images, which is currently ignored). He is further developing new tools for cancer classification from gene expression data in high-dimensions for undersized samples where the covariance matrix degenerates and is not computable to reduce the dimension to accurately classify the cancerous tissues and select the best genes for treatment protocols.
Dr. Bozdogan is the recipient of many distinguished teaching and research awards such as:
• The University of Tennessee Jefferson Faculty Prize Award for 2006. The Jefferson Prize was established through an endowment by an anonymous donor who wanted to recognize tenured or tenure-track faculty members who have demonstrated excellence in research and creative activity or have made other significant achievements that might not be recognized in the usual university reward system.
• The Bank of America Faculty Leadership Medal Award of the College of Business Administration (CBA) during April 2001. This award is given to a member of the faculty in good standing as determined by the committee; Demonstrated willing and significant work with students in classroom activities that encourage the development of student leadership skills; Demonstrated leadership in activities outside the classroom involving colleagues both inside and outside of the College of Business pertaining to curriculum innovation and/or development; Demonstrated leadership in academic professional organizations; Demonstrated leadership including elected or appointed positions within professional organizations, UT organizations or community, national, international, or regional organizations and charitable organizations.
• The Hoechst Roussel Teaching and Research Award of the College of Business Administration of the University of Tennessee in Knoxville Tennessee. This award is given to an outstanding faculty member in the College of Business Administration each year who uniquely combines and demonstrates the importance and effectiveness of their teaching and research in the classroom by what they have created through their research program. April, 1997.
• Won World Research Competition Award in Applied Econometric Modeling among 28 worldwide participating teams to forecast U.S. and Dutch food consumption during September 1996.
• Chancellor’s Award for Research and Creative Achievement, the University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK), April 7, 1993. This award is given each year to 10 UTK faculty who have recently made significant contributions in their field of study. The award includes $2,500 cash prize and Chancellor’s Certificate of Citation.
He has received many other outreach and international awards and nominations as a finalist in teaching and research.
Dr. Bozdogan’s work has been published in many diverse and leading journals.
• He has published over 75 research articles.
• He is the editor of six books.
• Dr. Bozdogan is a member of many professional societies and serves as the Editor, and Editorial Board of seven journals and he is a referee to many prestigious statistical journals.
• Dr. Bozdogan currently writing three books.
• He has produced about 20 Ph.D. students, and 43 Master’s students.
• He has produced 6 post-doctoral scholars.
• He has served on 50 doctoral committees.
• Currently directing 2 Ph.D. students.
Dr. Bozdogan serves on the International Advisory Board of the Dean of the School of Business of the Istanbul University.
He is a frequent keynote speaker at national and international conferences, and he is on program committees in many international scientific conferences.
His hobbies include social networking in scientific collaboration, traveling, learning other languages and cultures.
DEGREES
- Ph.D., MathematicsUniversity of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, United States1 Sep 1976 - 1 Aug 1981
LANGUAGES
- TurkishCan read, write, speak, understand and peer review
- ArmenianCan understand
- FrenchCan read and understand
- JapaneseCan understand