University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, Vienna (BOKU) - Research portal
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Head: Institute of Statistics Peter-Jordan-Straße 82, 1190 Wien friedrich.leisch(at)boku.ac.at Tel: +43 1 47654-85111 BOKUonline-Visitenkarte  ORCID: 0000-0001-7278-1983
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Curr. Vitae
| 2015 - 2021 | Head of Department of Landscape, Spatial and Infrastructure Sciences, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences |
| 2011 - | Professor, Institute of Statistics, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, head of institute |
| 2006 - 2011 | Professor, Department of Statistics, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich, head of working group Computational Statistics, head of department 2010-2011 |
| 1994 - 2006 | Assistant, Department of Statistics and Probability Theory, Vienna University of Technology, dissertation 1999, venia docendi for statistics 2005 |
| 1987 - 1993 | Studies in Applied Mathematics, Vienna University of Technology |
Statistik Austria, science classification
- programming; engineering mathematics; probability theory; artificial intelligence; computer-aided simulation; Fourier analysis; Bioinformatics; Statistics;
Expertise
- statistical computing; multivariate statistics; cluster analysis; generalized regression; biostatistics; mixture models; reproducible research; open source software; variable selection; machine learning;
Awards
| 2017 | INTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTIFIC EXPERTS IN TOURISM: Peter Keller Award for the paper "What drives the price of Airbnb properties in city destinations?", AIEST Conference, Tbilisi, Georgia |
Appointments/Memberships in Professional Societies
| 2013 -2022 | International Federation of Classification Societies member of the managing board |
| 2013 - | Gesellschaft für Klassifikation member |
| 2012 -2018 | Strategic Cooperation BOKU-Federal Environment Agency advisory board member |
| 2007 -2011 | International Association for Statistical Computing member of the managing board |
| 2007 -2013 | Faculty of Commerce,
University of Wollongong, Australia honory member |
| 2003 - | Austrian Statistical Society member of the managing board |
| 2002 - | R Foundation for Statistical Computing full member |
| 2002 -2014 | R Foundation for Statistical Computing general secretary |
| 1999 - | Austrian Statistical Society member |
Editorial board appointments for scientific journals
| 2016 -2018 |
Journal of Statistical Software:
1st level below top level (Associate Editor) |
| 2007 -2011 |
Computational Statistics:
Top level ( Editor in Chief) |
Reviewer for scientific journals
| 2020 - | Biotechnology Advances |
| 2017 - | Journal of Experimental & Theoretical Artificial Intelligence |
| 2017 - | Methods in Ecology and Evolution |
| 2016 - | J OUTDOOR RECREATION AND TOURISM |
| 2016 - | Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics |
| 2016 - | Advances in Data Analysis and Classification |
| 2014 - | Biotechnology Journal |
| 2014 - | Journal of Multivariate Analysis |
| 2014 - | Statistical Papers |
| 2013 - | Austrian Journal of Statistics |
| 2013 - | Annals of Tourism Research |
| 2013 - | Bioinformatics |
| 2013 - | Information Sciences |
| 2012 - | Communications in Statistics-Simulation and Computation |
| 2012 - | Journal of Classification |
| 2012 - | Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series C-Applied Statistics |
| 2012 - | Optimization |
| 2012 - | Briefings in Bioinformatics |
| 2011 - | J HOSPITALITY AND TOURISM RESEARCH |
| 2011 - | Molecular Biology and Evolution |
| 2011 - | Journal of Statistical Software |
| 2011 - | Computational Statistics & Data Analysis |
Reviewer/Expert funding organizations
| 2013 - | Schweizer Nationalfonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung - Switzerland |
| 2011 - | Australian Research Council - Australia |
Organizer of scientific conferences, Chairs
| 2019 | European Conference on Data Analysis Scientific Member of the Advisory Board |
| 2018 | Introduction to R Progtamming Organiser |
| 2015 | Eighth International Workshop on Simulation Member of the Organisation Committee |
| 2015 | Advanced R Programming Organiser |
| 2015 | European Conference on Data Analysis Scientific Member of the Advisory Board |
| 2013 | Advanced R Programming Organiser |
| 2013 | IFCS Scientific Member of the Advisory Board |