Current Information
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Education
- Ph.D., Economics,
University of Minnesota, 1990.
- Thesis:
Agents Becoming Principals: Theory And Estimation of a Tournament Model Of Promotions In Partnerships. Advisor: Kenneth I. Wolpin
- B.A., Economics and Computer Science,
University of Wyoming, 1984.
- The Role of University Characteristics in Determining Post-Graduation Outcomes: Panel Evidence from Three Canadian Cohorts, with Julian Betts and Ross Finnie, Canadian Public Policy 39, 81-106, May, 2013.
- Explaining and Forecasting Results of The Self-Sufficiency Project, Review of Economic Studies, 79(4), 2012, 1495-1526. doi:10.1093/restud/rds008.
- Modeling the value of strategic actions in the Superior Colliculus, by Dhushan Thevarajah, Ryan Webb, Christopher Ferrall and Michael C. Dorris, Frontiers in Behavioral Neuroscience, 3, 57, February, 2010, 14 pages, doi: 10.3389/neuro.08.057.2009.
- Solving Finite Mixture Models: Efficient Computation in Economics under Serial and Parallel Execution, Computational Economics, 25, 4 (June), 343-379, 2005
- Unemployment Insurance and the Business Cycle, with Laura Brown, International Economic Review, 44, 3 (August), 863-894, 2003.
- Wage and Test Score Dispersion: Some International Evidence,
with Kelly Bedard,
Economics of Education Review, 22, 1 (February), 31-43, 2003.
- A Sequential Game Model of Sports
Championship Series: Theory and Estimation,
with
Anthony A. Smith, Jr., Review of Economics and Statistics,
LXXXI, November 1999, 704-19.
- Incentives and Transactions Costs Within the Firm: Estimating an Agency Model Using Payroll Records,
with Bruce Shearer,
Review of Economic Studies,
66, 2, 309-338, 1999.
- Endogenous Work Hours and Practice Patterns of Canadian Physicians,
with Allan Gregory and William Tholl,
Canadian Journal of Economics, 31,
1,1-27, 1998.
- Unemployment Insurance Eligibility and the Transition from School to Work in Canada and the United States,
Journal of Business and Economic Statistics 15, 2, April, 1997,
115-129.
- Empirical Analysis of Occupational Hierarchies,
Journal of Human Resources 32, 1, 1-34,
Winter 1997.
- Routines to Maximize a Function in Stata,
Stata Technical Bulletin, 38, July, 1997, 22-26. Text and programs available in http://econ.queensu.ca/~ferrall/stata/.
- Promotions and Incentives in Partnerships: Evidence from Major U.S. Law Firms,
Canadian Journal of Economics 29, 4, 1996, 811-827.
- Interactive Statistics Tutorials in Stata,
Journal of Statistics Education, Vol 3, 3, 1995.
- Levels of Responsibility in Jobs and the Distribution of Earnings
Among U.S. Engineers, 1961-1986,
Industrial and Labor
Relations Review, Vol. 49, No 1, October 1995, 150-169.
- Policies for Improving Public Schools, with Julian R. Betts, Policy Options,
18, 6, July/August, 1997, 35-39.
- Non-linearity in Rates of Assimilation Among Canadian Immigrants,
with Stella Cheung and Gregory Matthews, in North American Labour Markets in Transition,
M. Abbott, C. Beach, and R. Chaykowsky (eds.): Industrial Relations Centre and John Deutsch Institute, Queen's University, 1997.
- A Review of Stata 3.1,
Journal of Applied Econometrics,
vol. 9, 1994, 469-477.
- Pay-for-Performance in Mining: An Analysis of Historical Data on Production Bonuses, with Bruce Shearer, CRS Perspectives,
46 September/October, 1993, 2-12.
- Wages and Seniority When Coworkers Matter: Estimating a Joint Production Economy Using Norwegian Administrative Data, with Kjell Gunnar Salvanes and Erik Øiolf Sørensen, QED working paper 1200, April 2009.
- Should I Stay or Should I Go . . .North? First Job Location of U.S. Trained Doctorates 1957-2005, with Natalia Mishagina, QED working paper 1194, January 2009, (updated July 2010).
- Estimation and Inference in Social Experiments, 2004, 55 pages.
- The Transition to Work for Canadian University Graduates: Time to First Job, 1982-1990 with Julian Betts and Ross Finnie, Statistics Canada research report #141,
- Human Capital Theory and the Life-Cycle Pattern of Learning and Earning, Income and Wealth, with David Andolfatto and Paul Gomme, working paper, May, 2000.
- Niqlow, a software package.
- SSHRC/CIHR
- SSHRC Strategic Joint Initiatives , no. 840-2010-0001, "Canadian Research Data Centre Network: Integrating New Initiatives for a Stronger Future", 2010-2014, approximately $25,000 per year to Queen's; Role: co-investigator.
- CIHR Grant, “Canadian initiative on social statistics (CISS) data training schools and research training centres," 2010-2014, approximately $25,000 per year to Queen's; Role: co-investigator.
- Initiative on the New Economy Research Grant, no. 501-2002-0123, "Public Policy Implications of Workplace and Household Interactions in the New Economy," $172,620, 2003-05; Role: PI
- Research Grant, "Econometrics of labour-market incentive contracts," $57,994; Role: Collaborator; (PI: Bruce Shearer).
- Research Grant, no. 410-99-1533, "Matching Models and Matched Data Sets," $39,330, 1999-02; Role: PI
- Strategic Grant, no. 884-95-0002, "School Quality, Educational Attainment, and Success in the Labour Market,"
$94,626, 1995-99; Role: PI
- Research Grant, no. 410-92-0791, "Structural Estimation: Information and Labour Market Incentives," $33,211, 1992-96.
- Other Agencies
- Canada Foundation for Innovation (Innovation Fund) ($12,836,440) and
Ontario Ministry of Economic Development and Trade (matching grant $12,836,440), "A Secure Multidisciplinary High Performance Computing Virtual Laboratory for Innovative Research," (one of 10 principal investigators), 2004.
- Research Contracts
- HRSDC, Labour Market Outcomes and Determinants of Success for the Integration of Internationally-educated Immigrants in the Canadian Labour Market: A Quantitative Study, 2014.
- Canadian Labour Market and Skills Researcher Network, "This is Cranial Tap: Canadian Outsourcing of Doctorate Education Since 1958," $15,000.
- Human Resource Development Canada and Social Research Demonstration Corporation, "The Dynamics of Income Assistance," 2 years, $11,500.
- Statistics Canada, "The Role of University Quality in Determining Post-Graduate Outcomes: Panel Evidence from Three Recent Canadian Cohorts," with Julian Betts (principal investigator) and Ross Finnie, 1 year.
- Statistics Canada, "The Transition to Work for the Canadian Graduate: Time to First Job, 1982-1990," with Julian Betts and Ross Finnie, 1 year, $5000.
- Queen's
- Principal's Development Fund, "A HyperText Course in Econometrics," $2500, 1995-96.
- Centre for Resource Studies, "Incentives, Risk and Optimal Extraction in the Mining Firm," with Bruce Shearer, $4800, 1991.
- Advisory Research Council and Principal's Development Fund, "Empirical Analysis of Occupational Hierarchies," $2300, 1990.
- 1999
- Harry Johnson Prize (annual best paper in the Canadian Journal of Economics).
- 1986-88
- Fellowship, Department of Economics, University of Minnesota.
- 1985-86
- Fellowship, Graduate School, University of Minnesota.
- 1984
- Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi, Senior Honor Book in Economics, John S. Bugas Award, University of Wyoming
- Current
- Professor of Economics, Queen's University, 2012.
- Director, John Deutsch Institute for the Study of Economic Policy, 2009-16.
- Previous
- Associate Professor of Economics, Queen's University, 1999-2012.
- Adjunct Associate Professor of Economics, New York University, Fall 2001.
- Research Fellow, SNF, Bergen, Norway, 1998-00.
- Guest Professor, Dept. of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, F2000.
- Assistant Professor, Queen's University, July, 1991 - June, 1999.
- Guest Professor, Dept. of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, 1997-98.
- Visiting Assistant Professor, GSIA, Carnegie Mellon University, 1992-93.
- Lecturer, Queen's University, 1990-1991.
- Summer Research Fellow, Mitsui Marine Research Institute, Tokyo, Japan, 1991.
- Teaching Assistant, Univ. of Minnesota, 1985-1990
- Consultant, World Bank, 1988,
see Rosenzweig and Wolpin, JPE 1993
- Visiting Scholar, Department of Economics, Univ. of Michigan, 1987
- Research Assistant, Univ. of Michigan and NBER, 1987
- Research Assistant, Department of Economics, Univ. of Wyoming, 1985,
see Brookshire and Coursey, AER 1987
- Instructor, Department of Computer Science, Univ. of Wyoming, 1985
- Research Assistant, Department of Agricultural Engineering,
Univ. of Wyoming, 1984, see
Pochop et al. (1984).
- 2014
- Dalhousie
- 2013
- Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis, U. Minnesota
- 2012
- UC-Santa Barbara
- 2011
- Summer Institute for Theoretical Economics (Segment 2).
- 2010
- Seminars: Federal Reserve Bank of New York
- 2009
- Seminars: McMaster, Western Ontario, NYU
- 2008
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Joint CLSRN and HRSDC Workshop, Toronto
Seminars: Calgary, Oslo
- 2007
- Seminars: Penn, Wisconsin, ITAM, Bank of Canada, Duke.
- 2005
- Structural Models in Labor, Aging, and Health, Duke;
- 2004
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Labor Market Policy Evaluation, Seville;
Seminars: CEMFI (Madrid), Northwestern, Northern Illinois, HEC-Montreal, Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Minnesota, Concordia.
- 2003
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Econometrics Society, Washington;
Human Capital, Productivity And The Labour Market, Western Ontario;
Seminars: Chicago.
- 2002
- Society for Economic Dynamics, New York;
Canadian Econometrics Study Group, Quebec;
Seminars: Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, Brown, Concordia.
- 2001
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Society for Computational Economics, Yale;
Canadian Economics Association, Montreal;
HPCVL Symposium, Kingston;
Seminars: Penn State, Laval, NYU, SUNY-Stony Brook.
- 2000
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The Econometrics of Strategy and Decision Making, Yale;
EALE/SOLE World Labor Conference, Milan;
"Economic Analysis of Linked Employee-Employer Data", Aarhus;
Labour Market and Employment (plenary session), Oslo;
Seminars: Iowa, Minnesota, Oslo, Tinbergen Institute
- 1999
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North American Winter Econometric Society Meeting, New York.
- 1998
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CERF Conference on Labour Market Transitions, Ottawa.;
Seminars: Bergen, IIES Stockholm, Uppsala, NYU.
- 1997
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Seminars: Tilburg, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Leeds, Stirling, Aberdeen, Glasgow, Norwegian School of Economics.
- 1996
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International Health Economics Association, Vancouver;
Seminars: McMaster, Carnegie Mellon - Pittsburgh Applied Micro Workshop,
University of California-San Diego.
- 1995
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North American Labour Markets in Transition, Fettschrift for Steve Kaliski, Kingston;
Summer Institute for Theoretical Economics, Stanford;
Econometrics Society Meetings San Francisco;
Seminars: Guelph, Laval, UQAM, U. Western Ontario.
- 1994
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Canadian Employment Research Forum (Calgary);
Econometrics Society Meetings (Quebec);
Seminars: Wilfrid Laurier, Lakehead
- 1993
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Canadian Employment Research Forum (Vancouver);
Econometrics Society Meetings (Boston);
Seminars: Michigan
- 1992
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Incentives and Contracts: Theory and Evidence, (U. of Montreal);
Seminars: Toronto, McMaster, Carnegie Mellon
- 1991
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Canadian Econometrics Study Group (Quebec);
Seminars: Concordia, McGill
- 1990
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Empirical Application of Structural Models, University of Wisconsin;
Seminars: Queen's, Toronto.
Current and Former PhD Students
- *: awarded the annual Curtis Prize for best QED thesis within the last two years.
+: Designated Social Sciences Outstanding Thesis.
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Bruce Shearer
- Professor, Department of
Economics, Laval University. Ph.D., December 1994.
Title: Empirical Models of Labour Market Incentives:
Applications to the Brittania Copper Mine.
(co-supervisor: Charles Beach).
- Lisa Powell
- Professor and Director of Health Policy and Administration, Institute for Health Research and Policy, University of Illinois at Chicago. Ph.D., July 1995. Title: Child Care and Female Labour Supply
(co-supervisors: Charles Beach
and Tom Crouchene).
- Kelly Bedard
- Chair and Professor, Department of Economics,
University of California at Santa Barbara. Ph.D., September 1996.
Title: The Structure of Education and the Distribution of Wages*
- Laura Brown
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Associate Professor, Department of Economics,
University of Manitoba. Ph.D., December 1996.
Title: An Equilibrium Model of Unemployment Insurance in a Cyclical Economy,.
- Christopher Auld
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Associate Professor, Department of Economics,
University of Victoria. Ph.D. June, 1999. Title: Three Essays on the Economics of
Health-Related Behaviour*.
- Raymond Yeung
- Chief China Economist, ANZ Banking Group.
Ph.D. September 1999. Title: Towards a Family Model of the Labour
Market Behaviour of Immigrants: Estimates of a Discrete Choice Dynamic Programming Model.
- Andrew Leach
- Associate Professor, School of Business, University of Alberta. Ph.D. December 2003. Title: Three Papers on the Economics of Climate Change*.
- Kathleen Rybczynski
- Associate Professor,
Department of Economics, University of Waterloo. Ph.D. December 2005. Title: Gender Differences In Self-Employment: The Contribution of Credit Constraints and Risk Aversion to
Self-Employment Entry, Duration, and Earnings in Canada.
- Erik Ø. Sørensen
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Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Norwegian School of Economics and Business Administration (NHH), dr. øcon January 2006. Title: Essays on the production of human capital (supervisory committee member).
- J. F. Houde
- Associate Professor, Department of Economics, Cornell University, Ph.D. July 2006. Title: An Empirical Investigation of Spatial Differentiation and Price Floor Regulations in Retail Markets for Gasoline*+ (co-supervisor Susumu Imai).
- Natalia Mishagina
- Researcher, CIRANO , Ph.D. September 2009. Title: Labor Market Behavior of Sciences and Engineering Doctorates: Three Essays. (co-supervisor Susumu Imai).
- Pamela Cardozo
- Researcher, Central Bank of Colombia, Ph.D. December 2009. Title: Bidders' Behaviour and Theory of Share Auctions with Applications to the Colombian Primary Bond Market.
- David Byrne
- Senior Lecturer, Department of Economics, University of Melbourne, Ph.D., December 2010. Title:
An Empirical Study of the Causes and Consequences of Mergers in the Canadian Cable Television Industry * (co-supervisor Susumu Imai).
- Ryan Webb
- Assistant Professor, Rotman School of Business, University of Toronto, Ph.D., June 2011.
Title: Towards a Neural Measure of Value and the Modelling of Choice in Strategic Games, (co-supervisor Michael C. Dorris).
- Michael Barber, Ph.D. Candidate
- Department of Economics, Queen's.
- Kamin Peyrow, Ph.D. Candidate
- Department of Economics, Queen's.
- Queen's Visiting Research Student
- Nibene Habib Some, Université Laval, 2013-4
- Modibo Sidibé, Université Lyon, 2009-10
- Erik Ø. Sørensen, NHH, 2001-1
- M.A. Essays (with last known position)
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Firrisaa Abdukarim (2016)
; Eric Richert (2016, PhD Student, Queen's)
; Alex Sernoskie (2016)
; Sinduja Vivekananthan (2015)
; Francis Bergeron (2015)
; Calvin Pritchard (2014)
; M-A Bisaillon (2014)
; Haiyun Du (2014)
; Jenny Watt (2013, PhD Student, Queen's)
; Danqing Yao (2013, PhD student, BU)
; Liam Mulligan (2010)
; Christopher Jones (2010, TD Canada Trust)
; Michael Barber (2009, PhD student, Queen's)
; Patrick Day (2009, Gov. of British Columbia)
; Craig Galbraith (2008)
; Bernice Lau (2006, Industry Canada)
; Ying Shang (2006, PhD student, Queen's)
; Konrad Zmitrowicz (2006, Bank of Canada)
; Mishagina, Natalia (2002, CIRANO)
; Tim Prendergast (2002, Statistics Canada)
; Carrie Lee (2001)
; Michelle Reinsborough (2001, Environment Canada)
; Adam Slade (2001)
; Karen Buhr (2000, Asst. Professor, U. of Maine)
; Kevin Gale (2000)
: Francois Goulet (2000, Industry Canada)
; Emmanuel Asiedu (1999, Government of Ghana)
; Ronald Oertel (1999, Visiting Professor, Western Washington)
; Jerome Mercier (1999,HRSDC)
; Shawn Peddie (1996, Government of Alberta),
; Adrienne Ten Cate (1996, HRSDC)
; Stella Cheung (1994, Bank of Canada),
; Scott Daniels (1994)
; Christine Hinchley (1994, Statistics Canada),
; M. Christopher Auld (1993, Professor, U. Victoria)
; Kelly Bedard (1993, Professor, UC-Santa Barbara)
; Matt Cumberworth (1992)
.
- Honours B.A. Theses
- Kate Burnett (BaH 2010), co-supervisor; Jefferson Doughtery (BaH 1995)
; Greg Matthews (BaH 1995)
- Ph.D. Comprehensive Exam Committee Membership (*=chair)
- Public Finance (F90, S91)
- Labour (F91, *S92, *F94, *S96, F97)
- Micro Theory (S94)
- Econometrics (S96, S97)
- Oral Exam Committee Membership (*=chair)
- Ph.D.
Paula Peare; David Scoones; Nicolaus Marceau;
Wendy Louise Pirie (Management); Myles Corak; Urvashi Dhawan; Irene Chan;
*X. Lu (Management); Ryan Davies; Xin Zhang (Management);
*Matthew Williams (Political Studies); Jason Allen; David Milstein (Neuroscience); Dorte Heger; Jeffrey Penney
- MA/MS
Don Franklin (Psychology); Hyunmo Pang (Pychology);
Dhushyanthan Thevarajah (Centre for Neuroscience Studies);
*Jacques Menard (Law); *C. F. Green (Political Studies); *Lucinda Fisher (Law)
- B.A. / M.A. Essay Reader
- Rohan Gaghadar; Jashan Singh Narhan (SIR); C. Paradis; A. Sfeir-Camarena;
Loren Vazquez-Zubieta; Marcell Cormier; Jeong Im Kim; Maria Muir; Daniel Kearns; Eric Stephens;
David Goodwin
- Graduate
- Econ 999: PhD Seminar (1/2 98-00, 03-05, (Full 06), 1/2 07-08
- Econ 960: Advanced Topics in Labour Economics (F90-91, F93-94, 1/2 F95)
- Econ 950/1/4: Advanced Topics in Econometrics / Quantitative Economics (1/2 F95, NHH F00, F02, W99, W01, W09, F11, F12, W14)
- Econ 916: Advanced Topics in Macroeconomics (W07)
- Econ 882: Research Problems and Methodology (W13, W14)
- Econ 860/1: Labour Economics (W91-92, 1/2 in F94, W94-96, NHH W98, F98, W00-02, NYU F01, W06, F14, W16, W17)
- Methods Review (MA \& PhD): F01, F03-F04, F07-16
- Undergraduate
- Econ 483/6: Seminar in Microeconomics (W03, W06, W08, W09)
- Econ 360: Labour Economics (W99, W00, W03)
- Econ 452: Applied Econometrics (F99, W00, W01, F14, F15, W17)
- Econ 354: Computational Methods (W16, F16)
- Econ 351: Introductory Econometrics (F90-91, FW94-95, W96, F09-10, W10-11)
- Econ 212: Intermediate Microeconomics (F93, CMU F92 W93)
- Editing
- Income, Inequality, and Immigration: Special Issue of Canadian Public Policy, 39, Supplement 1, 2013, co-guest editor.
- Journal Refereeeing
- American Economic Review;
J. Applied Econometrics;
B.E. J. in Economic Analysis & Policy;
Canadian J. of Economics;
Canadian Public Policy;
Computational Economics;
Econometrica;
J. of Econometrics;
J. Economic Dynamics and Control;
Economic Journal;
European Economic Review;
Health Economics;
Industrial and Labor Relations Review;
International J. of Industrial Organization;
International Economic Review;
J. of Labor Economics;
Labour Economics;
J. of Human Capital;
J. of Human Resources;
J. of Business and Economic Statistics;
J. of Political Economy;
Quarterly J. of Economics;
Review of Economic Studies;
Canadian Business Economics;
Scandinavian J. of Economics;
- Grants and Research Report Refereeing
- National Science Foundation; Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada; Social Science Research Demonstration Corporation; Canadian Foundation for Innovation; United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation
Administration and Service
- Community
- Member, Ontario Graduate Schools Scholarship Committee (2008-9)
- Member, Sun Microsystems / HPCVL Scholarship Committee, 2001-4.
- University
- Member, Senate Committee on Cyclical Program Review (2015-7)
- Member, Executive Committee, Data Analytics and Computing Research Group
- Member, Steering Committee, Queen's Research Data Centre (2013-)
- Member, Graduate School Awards Committee (2010)
- Acting Director, Queen's Collaborative Graduate Program in Computational Science and Engineering (2009)
- Arts and Sciences Award Committee (Member, 2008-11, Chair 2009-11)
- Chair, Internal Academic Review Committee, School of Computing (2006-7)
- Academic Director, Queen's Research Data Centre (2004-11)
- Member, Steering Committee, Queen's Research Data Centre (2012-)
- Member of High Performance Computing Review Committee (2006-)
- Member of Management Committee & Departmental Representative, Queen’s Collaborative Graduate Specialization in Computational Science and Engineering (QCSE) (2005-10)
- Organizing Committee, QCSE (2002-4)
- Chancellor's Award Committee (2004,06,07,12,14)
- Arts & Sciences Computing Committee (2001-4, Chair 2001-4)
- Economics Headship Search Committee (1999-00)
- Dean's Library Advisory Committee (1997)
- Document Library Data User Group (1997)
- Review of Faculty of Education Committee (1996)
- Sub-committee on Numerically Intensive Computing (1994-95)
- Queen's Numerically Intensive Computing Group (1996-)
- School of Industrial Relations Advisory Board (1993-)
- Task Force on Student Notebook Computing (1996)
- Department
- Chair, Scarthingmoor Prize Committee (2012-3)
- Member, Visitors Committee (2011)
- Director, John Deutsch Institute (2009-2016)
- Member, Curtis Prize Committee (2009, 2015)
- Director, PhD Placement (2005-2009, 2014-2015)
- Faculty Appointments Committee (1998-00, 2006, 2013-14)
- Computing Committee (1994-2002, Chair 95-96)
- Undergraduate Studies (1995-97)
- Quantitative Workshop (1993-94,98-00)
- Undergraduate Advisor (1993-94, 2001-2)
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