James E. Gentle, PhD, is University Professor of Computational Statistics at George Mason University. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. Professor Gentle has held several national offices in the ASA and has served as editor and associate editor of journals of the ASA as well as for other journals in statistics and computing. He is author of
Random Number Generation and Monte Carlo Methods (Springer, 2003) and
Computational Statistics (Springer, 2009).