Murad Salman Taqqu ( Arabic: مراد طقو) is an Iraqi probabilist and statistician specializing in time series and stochastic processes. His research areas have included long-range dependence, self-similar processes, and heavy tails. Taqqu is a professor emeritus at Boston University Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Taqqu was born in Baghdad and grew up in Switzerland.[ citation needed] As an undergraduate, he studied physics and mathematics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. [1] He obtained his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1972, with his dissertation Limit Theorems for Sums of Strongly Dependent Random Variables supervised by Benoit Mandelbrot. [2] Between 1972 and 1974 Taqqu lectured at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. From 1974 to 1985, he was a faculty member at the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell University. Since 1985, Taqqu has served as a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University, [1] where he is currently professor emeritus. [3] He has published over 250 papers, [4] and co-authored or co-edited 11 books. [5]
Murad Salman Taqqu ( Arabic: مراد طقو) is an Iraqi probabilist and statistician specializing in time series and stochastic processes. His research areas have included long-range dependence, self-similar processes, and heavy tails. Taqqu is a professor emeritus at Boston University Department of Mathematics and Statistics, and a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.
Taqqu was born in Baghdad and grew up in Switzerland.[ citation needed] As an undergraduate, he studied physics and mathematics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne. [1] He obtained his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1972, with his dissertation Limit Theorems for Sums of Strongly Dependent Random Variables supervised by Benoit Mandelbrot. [2] Between 1972 and 1974 Taqqu lectured at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot. From 1974 to 1985, he was a faculty member at the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell University. Since 1985, Taqqu has served as a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University, [1] where he is currently professor emeritus. [3] He has published over 250 papers, [4] and co-authored or co-edited 11 books. [5]