George Box was for many years a practicing statistician with Imperial Chemical Industries. He is the originator of many widely used methods for product and process improvement, in particular the techniques of Response Surface Methodology and Evolutionary Operation. He has also made fundamental contributions to the theory and practice of statistically designed experiments,process control, robust statistical methods, Bayesian methods, and time series analysis. He is presently Director of Research at the Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, where he founded the Department of Statistics.
Professor Box is an Honorary Member, Shewhart and Deming Medallist of the American Society for Quality; a Fellow of the Royal Society of London; a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences; a Fellow and Past Vice President of the American Association for the Advancement of Science; a Past President and Fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics; and a recipient of the Gold Medal of the Royal Statistical Society.
He has published more that 180 papers and many books, including The Design and Analysis of Industrial Experiments, Statistical Methods in Research and production, Time Series Analysis-Forecasting and Control, Bayesian Inference in Statistical Analysis, Evolutionary Operation, Statistics for Experiments, Empirical Model Building and Response Surfaces, and Statistical Control by Monitoring and Feedback Adjustment.
He received Ph.D. and D.Sc. degrees in mathematical statistics from the University of London and has been presented with honorary doctorates by the University of Rochester, Carnegie-Mellon University and the University of Madrid.