Handbook of Scan Statistics

Joseph Glaz has been recently appointed (effective July 1, 2011) as head of the Department of Statistics, University of Connecticut. He has co-authored 6 books; 4 of which published with either Birkhauser Boston or Springer New York. Glaz is the current editor-in-chief of the following Springer journal: Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability.

Honors and Awards include : election to the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences (2011), elected fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Sciences (2009), AAUP Excellence in Research Award (2006), Abraham Wald Prize in Sequential Analysis (2006), elected fellow of the American Statistical Assoc. (2000), elected member of the International Statistical Institute (1999).

Most importantly, Joe Glaz has worked closely with Joseph Naus, the father of scan statistics, since this area of statistics was conceived around 1999.

Markos Koutras is currently a full professor in the department of Statistics and Actuarial Science at the University of Piraeus in Greece and served as department chair 2003-2007. He received his PhD in mathematics from the  University of Athens in 1983. Koutras serves as a highly active member of the editorial board of the Springer journal: Methodology and Computing in Applied Probability and has served on the organizing committee for several international conferences. He has served as referee/reviewer on at least 15 journals and book series. Prof. Koutras had been appointed institutional scientific director of the modernization of the central library of the University of Piraeus and director of the Graduate Program in Applied Statistics (2001-2004; 2008-2011) at Piraeus.