Philip B. Stark
Philip Stark, Distinguished Professor of Statistics at UC Berkeley, brings together theory and practice in myriad ways. He studies inference problems and uncertainty quantification with applications in physical, biological, and social sciences, which have proven relevant to advertising, the census, elections, environmental litigation, First Amendment protections, geochemistry, intellectual property, jury selection, trade secrets, torts and toxic torts, water treatment, and white-collar crime, and more. Stark focuses on nonparametric and exact inference tailored for specific scientific goals.
Stark has consulted for major corporations and for the U.S. Department of Justice, the Federal Trade Commission, the U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Census Bureau, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the California Attorney General, the California Highway Patrol, the Illinois State Attorney, and the New Hampshire Secretary of State, and the New Hampshire Attorney General.
Stark has testified to the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on the Census; the State of California Senate Committee on Elections, Reapportionment and Constitutional Amendments; the State of California Assembly Committee on Elections and Redistricting; and the State of California Senate Committee on Natural Resources. He serves on the Board of Advisors of the US Election Assistance Commission and has developed methods for auditing elections now in law in more than 15 U.S. states.