Matthias Schonlau

Matthias Schonlau is a Professor in the Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. Prior to his current appointment he spent 14 years outside of academia at the RAND Corporation, the National Institute of Statistical Sciences, AT&T Labs and the German Institute for Economic Research, DIW. He won the Humboldt Prize and was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association. His interests include applied survey research -- in particular open-ended questions -- at the interface to statistical learning. His books and peer-reviewed papers have been cited more than 20,000 times.