Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers

3/25/13

SLU Statistics Professor Receives Fulbright Award

    
CANTON – St. Lawrence University Associate Professor of Statistics Michael Schuckers was recently selected for a Fulbright award to Finland, granted by the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board, for the fall 2013 semester.

Schuckers will be working on statistical modeling of metabolic processes with Marko Sysi-Aho, a senior scientist and team leader in the Quantitative Biology and Bioinformatics group at the VTT Technical Research Centre in Espoo, Finland. The Centre is the biggest multi-technological applied research organization in Northern Europe and provides high-end technology solutions and innovation services.  With 2013 being the International Year of Statistics, Schuckers also plans to work on the communication of statistical data analyses.  

Schuckers is the director of the Martha E. '62 and Gregg E. Peterson Quantitative Resource Center at St. Lawrence. A graduate of Penn State, he earned his master’s degree from the University of Michigan and a doctorate in statistics from Iowa State University.

Among Schuckers’ other research interests is the performance of biometric authentication devices such as fingerprint scanners. He is the co-founder of Statistical Sports Consulting LLC (statsportsconsulting.com), a firm focused on developing data-based decision-making tools for a competitive edge.

Recently, a research paper Schuckers co-wrote with St. Lawrence alumnus James Curro ’12 was runner-up from a field of more than 100 papers in the Research Paper Competition at the 7th Annual MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference.

The Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board is the president-appointed 12-member board responsible for establishing worldwide policies for the Fulbright Program and for selecting Fulbright recipients. The principle goal of the program is to increase mutual understanding between the people of the United State and the people of the more than 150 countries that currently participate in the Fulbright Program. Since the inception of the program more than 60 years ago, approximately 300,000 Fulbrighters have participated.