A. Russell Chandler III Chair and
Professor
Education
- Ph.D. Statistics (2002), University of Michigan
- M.Tech. Quality, Reliability, and Operations Research (1995), Indian Statistical Institute
- B.Tech. Product Engineering and Management (1993), National Institute of Technology-Calicut
Expertise
- Statistics
- Experimental Design
- Bayesian Computation
- Uncertainty Quantification
- Quality Engineering
- Big Data Analytics
About
Roshan Vengazhiyil Joseph is a A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. He is a core member of the statistics group in ISyE. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and American Society for Quality, and a former Editor of Technometrics.
Research
Dr. Joseph's research interests are in the broad areas of applied and computational statistics. He leads the engineering analytics group in ISyE, where the major focus is on developing novel data analytic methods for solving complex engineering problems. Dr. Joseph is an author of more than 100 journal articles and has received many research awards. His book on experimental design summarizes more than 25 years of his work in the field of design and analysis of experiments.
Teaching
Dr. Joseph teaches graduate courses on Design of experiments, Advanced design of experiments, Regression analysis, Advanced statistical modeling, and Bayesian statistics, and undergraduate courses on Methods for quality improvement and Regression & forecasting.
Awards and Honors
- Inaugural Outstanding Faculty Achievement in Research: Mid-Career, ISyE, Georgia Tech, 2024.
- Distinguished Alumni Award-Academic Excellence, National Institute of Technology Calicut, India, 2024.
- Wilcoxon Award, American Society for Quality, 2023.
- Lloyd S. Nelson Award, American Society for Quality, 2021.
- Fellow, American Society for Quality, 2020.
- SPAIG Award, American Statistical Association, 2020 (for collaboration with P&G).
- Statistics in Physical & Engineering Sciences Award, American Statistical Association, 2019.
- Franz Edelman Laureate, INFORMS, 2017.
- Fellow, American Statistical Association, 2012.
- Best Paper Award, IIE Transactions-Quality and Reliability Engineering, 2009.
- Jack Youden Prize, American Society for Quality, 2005.
- CAREER Award, National Science Foundation, 2005.
- Distinguished Dissertation Award, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, 2003.
Representative Publications
Joseph, V. R. (2026). Experimental Design for Data Science and Engineering. Chapman & Hall/CRC, forthcoming (March 2026).
Song, D., Lewis, W. E., Knapp, P. F., Wu, C. F. J., and Joseph, V. R. (2026). “Efficient Optimization of Plasma Radiation Detectors using Imperfect Inference Models”. JASA, to appear.
Huang, C. and Joseph, V. R. (2025). “Factor Importance Ranking and Selection using Total Indices”. Technometrics, 67, 573-589.
Joseph, V. R. (2025). “Rational Kriging”. JASA, 120, 548-558.
Joseph, V. R. (2022). “Optimal Ratio for Data Splitting”. Statistical Analysis and Data Mining: The ASA Data Science Journal, 15, 531-538.
Joseph, V. R. and Vakayil, A. (2022). “SPlit: An Optimal Method for Data Splitting”. Technometrics, 64, 166-176.
Mak, S. and Joseph, V. R. (2018). “Support Points,” The Annals of Statistics, 46, 2562-2592.
Plumlee, M., Joseph, V. R., and Yang, H. (2016). “Calibrating Functional Parameters in the Ion Channel Models of Cardiac Cells,” JASA, 111, 500-509.
Joseph, V. R., Gul, E., and Ba, S. (2015). “Maximum Projection Designs for Computer Experiments,” Biometrika, 102, 371-380.
Joseph, V. R. (2012). “Bayesian Computation Using Design of Experiments-based Interpolation Technique” (with discussions). Technometrics, 54, 209-242.