Scott Ferson (professor)
Scott Ferson | |
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Born | August 27, 1958 |
Residence | Liverpool, United Kingdom |
Nationality | United States |
Alma mater |
Wabash College (AB) Stony Brook University (PhD) |
Known for |
p-boxes probability bounds analysis |
Scientific career | |
Fields |
risk and uncertainty uncertainty quantification uncertainty propagation environmental science conservation biology |
Institutions |
University of Liverpool Stony Brook University Applied Biomathematics |
Doctoral advisor | Lawrence Slobodkin |
Website |
sites |
Scott David Ferson is Chair of Uncertainty in Engineering at University of Liverpool, Professor in its School of Engineering, and director of the Institute for Risk and Uncertainty there. Before joining University of Liverpool as a faculty member, Ferson taught as an adjunct professor at Stony Brook University and did research at Applied Biomathematics, a small think tank on Long Island, New York.[1] He is a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis, which gave him its Distinguished Educator Award in 2017.[2][3] From Shelbyville, Indiana, Ferson received a Ph.D. from Stony Brook University and earned an A.B. summa cum laude from Wabash College.[1]
Ferson is author or editor of several books and an author of over 100 other scholarly publications, mostly in methods for analysing risks and uncertainty for environmental and engineering problems.[4] He developed the notion of the probability box and probability bounds analysis, a technique for distribution-free risk analysis or sensitivity analysis for probabilistic assessments. He authored a series of reports[5] that have been influential in uncertainty quantification for engineering risk assessment and design problems.
References
- 1 2 "Ferson, Scott - University of Liverpool". www.liverpool.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Fellows of the Society : SRA". www.sra.org.
- ↑ "Nine honored by Society for Risk Analysis" (PDF).
- ↑ "Welcome to Prof Scott Ferson", University of Liverpool Institute for Risk and Uncertainty Newsletter, January 2017, editor Marco De Angelis, http://riskinstitute.uk.
- ↑ "Uncertainty projection in engineered systems". sites.google.com.