Biography
Resnick joined the Cornell
faculty in 1987 after nine years at Colorado State University, six years at Stanford University, and two years at
the Technion, in Haifa, Israel. He has also held visiting appointments at
several institutions, including the University of Amsterdam and the Amsterdam
Mathematics Center; the Australian National University and CSIRO, in Canberra,
Australia; the Technion in Israel (as a Lady Davis Fellow); Sussex University,
in Brighton, UK (as a Science and Engineering Research Council Fellow), Erasmus
University, in Rotterdam, The Netherlands; and ETH Zurich. Resnick is a fellow
of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and while at Colorado State was an
Oliver Pennock Distinguished Service Award winner. He was on the Bernoulli
Society Committee for Conferences in Stochastic Processes and was on the program
committee of the First World Congress of the Bernoulli Society in Tashkent,
USSR. He is a founding associate editor of Annals of Applied
Probability, and a current associate editor of Journal of Applied
Probability, Stochastic Models,
and The Mathematical Scientist. He is a former associate editor
of Stochastic Processes and Their Applications. He served a three-year term on the
Council of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and served on their ad hoc committee
on electronic publishing. He is currently an editor for Birkhauser, Boston
serving on the boards of the Progress in Probability and
Progress in Probability and Its Applications series.
Resnick was appointed to a five year term as Director of Cornell's School of Operations Research and Industrial
Engineering in July 1999.
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