Mark Johnson
professor
STATISTICS
University of Central Florida
United States of America
Biography
Dr. Mark Johnson is Professor of Statistics in the College of Sciences. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, Chartered Statistician with the Royal Statistical Society and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. He wrote the book Multivariate Statistical Simulation published by John Wiley and has received numerous awards for his research papers. In 1996 he started working in the area of hurricane risk modeling which has generated well over a million dollars in funding . He heads the professional team that audits computer hurricane models for insurance rate filings in the state of Florida and has also consulted with North Carolina and Massachusetts on hurricane modeling issues and catastrophic risk problems internationally.
Research Interest
Florida Commission on Hurricane Loss Projection Methodology, statistician and professional team leader; related hurricane research with Watson Technical Consulting and Kinetic Analysis Corporation Agency for Health Care Administration, expert witness Black Belt statistics instructor Multivariate Statistical Simulation, John Wiley & Sons, 1987
Publications
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Simulated Annealing & Optimization: Modern Algorithms with VLSI Optimal Design, & Missile Defense Applications, American Sciences Press, (1988).
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Multivariate Statistical Simulation, in Wiley Series in Applied Probability and Statistics, John Wiley and Sons, Inc. (1987).
