Christopher K. Wikle
Curators Distinguished Professor, Department Chair
146 Middlebush Hall
573-882-9659
WikleC@Missouri.edu
Education

PhD, Iowa State University, 1996

Research Interests

Spatio-temporal models, climatology, meteorology, oceanography, dynamical models, Bayesian hierarchical methods, deep learning, reinforcement learning, sports statistics, wildfire modeling, environmental and ecological statistics.

Honors

2019    Outstanding Reference/Monograph Award (Science and Medicine Category) for Spatio-Temporal Statistics with R, C.K.   Wikle, A. Zammit-Mangion and N. Cressie; Taylor and Francis

2019    Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
2018    Elected Fellow of the International Statistical Institute,  
2018    J. Stuart Hunter Award/Lecture, International Environmetrics Society (TIES)
2018    Senior Fellow, National Institute of Statistical Sciences, 2018 – present2017
2017    SPAIG Award: Co-awardee – American Statistical Association’s Statistical Partnership Among Academe, Industry, and Government (SPAIG) Award
2017    Outstanding Undergraduate Research Mentor Award, U. Missouri Office of Undergraduate Research
2016    Curators’ Distinguished Professor, University of Missouri System, 2016
2016    Wiley-TIES Best Paper Award,  for “A model-based approach for analog spatio-temporal dynamic forecasting,” Environmetrics, 2016, 27: 70–82, P. McDermott and C.K. Wikle.
2014    DeGroot Prize, for Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data from the International Society for Bayesian Analysis
2013    “Science” Inaugural Statistical Board of Reviewing Editors Nomination by American Statistical Association President.
2012    Outstanding Graduate Faculty Award, University of Missouri Graduate School and Graduate Student Association.
2011    PROSE Award, for excellence in the Mathematics Category from the Association of American Publishers, for the 2011 Wiley book, Statistics for Spatio-Temporal Data

2009 Distinguished Alumni Award, Iowa State University, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Department of Geological and Atmospheric Sciences/Department of Statistics.
2006    Chancellor’s Award for Outstanding Research and Creative Activity in the Physical and Mathematical Sciences, University of Missouri.
2004    Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association.
2003    ENVR Distinguished Achievement Award, ASA Section on Statistics and the Environment.

 

Teaching

Spring 2024

N/A