Born July 7, 1968, Columbus, Ohio.

Institution	Degree Date	Degree and Major
Rice University	1993	Ph.D. Statistics
Rice University	1992	M.A. Statistics
Rice University	1989	B.A. Statistics and Mathematical Sciences

Associate Professor -- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University. 1998 to present.

Visiting Fellow -- Centre for Mathematics and its Applications, Australian National University. 1999 to 2000, 2001, 2002.

Visiting Researcher -- Center for Computational Statistics, George Mason University. 1998.

Assistant Professor -- Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Utah State University. 1992 to 1998.

Summer Faculty Fellow -- Mathematical Technologies Section, Naval Surface Warfare Center, Dahlgren Division. 1996, 1997.

Research Assistant -- Department of Statistics, Rice University. 1990, 1991.

Teaching Assistant -- Department of Statistics, Rice University. 1989, 1990.

Student Extern -- Department of Biomathematics, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center. 1989.

Co-chair, 35th Annual Symposium, Interface Foundation of North America, 2003

Co-editor, Computing Science and Statistics, 2003

Associate Editor, The American Statistician, 1998-present

Associate Editor, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2000-present

Associate Editor, Computational Statistics, 2002-present

Member at Large, Board of Directors, Interface Foundation of North America, 1999-2007 (2 terms)

Past President, Utah Chapter, American Statistical Association, 2002-2003

President, Utah Chapter, American Statistical Association, 2001-2002

Member, Council of Chapters Committee on the World Wide Web, American Statistical Association, 2001

Mathematics Judge, KSL-Deseret News Sterling Scholar Competition, 2001

First Vice President, Utah Chapter, American Statistical Association, 2000-2001

Publications Officer, Section on Statistical Graphics, American Statistical Association, 1997-2000 (2 terms)

Co-organizer, Judge, 1st-2nd Annual Section on Statistical Graphics Student Paper Competition, American Statistical Association, 1997-1999

Judge, Undergraduate Data Analysis Contest, American Statistical Association, 1998

Secretary, Utah Chapter, American Statistical Association, 1994-1996

Peer Reviews

The American Statistician

The Annals of Statistics

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods

Computational Statistics

Computational Statistics and Data Analysis

European Series in Applied and Industrial Mathematics: Probability and Statistics

The Journal of the American Statistical Association

The Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

The Journal of Econometrics

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

The Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B (Theory and Methods)

Statistica Sinica

Statistics and Computing

Statistics and Probability Letters

Technometrics

Refereed

``Bump Hunting with Non-Gaussian Kernels,'' Peter Hall, Michael C. Minnotte, and Chunming Zhang, 2004. The Annals of Statistics, 32, 2124-2141.

``High-Order Data Sharpening for Density Estimation,'' Peter Hall and Michael C. Minnotte, 2002. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 64, 141-157.

``On the Estimation of Reliability Based on Mixture Inverse Gaussian Distributions,'' Olcay Akman, Prashant S. Sansgiry, and Michael C. Minnotte, 1999. In Applied Statistical Science IV, 221-228, Nova Science Publishers, Inc., Commack, NY.

``Achieving Higher-Order Convergence Rates for Density Estimation with Binned Data,'' Michael C. Minnotte, 1998. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 93, 663-672.

``The Bumpy Road to the Mode Forest,'' Michael C. Minnotte, David J. Marchette, and Edward J. Wegman, 1998. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 7, 239-251.

``Nonparametric Testing of the Existence of Modes,'' Michael C. Minnotte, 1997. The Annals of Statistics, 25, 1646-1660.

``The Bias-Optimized Frequency Polygon,'' Michael C. Minnotte, 1996. Computational Statistics, 11, 35-48

``The Mode Tree: A Tool for Visualization of Nonparametric Density Features,'' Michael C. Minnotte and David W. Scott, 1993. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2, 51-68.

``Noncancer Deaths in White Adult Cancer Patients,'' Barry W. Brown, Christopher Brauner, and Michael C. Minnotte, 1993. Journal of the National Cancer Institute, 85, 979-987.

Nonrefereed

``Visualization and Interpretation of High-Dimensional Classifiers,'' Michael C. Minnotte and Adele Cutler, 2002. Proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, August 5-9, 2001

``Nonparametric Likelihood Ratio Testing of Multimodality for Discrete and Binned Data,'' Michael C. Minnotte, 2000. 1999 Proceedings of the ASA Section on Statistical Computing, 222-227.

``The Data Image: A Tool for Exploring High Dimensional Data Sets,'' Michael C. Minnotte and R. Webster West, 1999. 1998 Proceedings of the ASA Section on Statistical Graphics, 25-33.

``Higher-Order Histosplines: New Directions in Binned Smoothing,'' Michael C. Minnotte, 1999. Computing Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 30th Symposium on the Interface, 296-301.

``Beyond Histograms: Superior Density Estimation with Binned Data,'' Michael C. Minnotte, 1998. 1997 Proceedings of the ASA Section on Statistical Computation, in press.

``New Terrain in the Mode Forest,'' Michael C. Minnotte, David J. Marchette, and Edward J. Wegman, 1998. Computing Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 29th Symposium on the Interface, 473-477.

``On the Mixture Inverse Gaussian Strength-Stress Model,'' Olcay Akman, Prashant S. Sansgiry, and Michael C. Minnotte, 1997. Bulletin of the International Statistical Institute, 51st Session, Book 2, 435-436.

``The Bumpy Road to the Mode Forest,'' Michael C. Minnotte, David J. Marchette, and Edward J. Wegman, 1997. Computing Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the Second World Conference of the International Association for Statistical Computing, 28-34.

``Fast Convergence of Nonparametric Density Estimates Using Binned Data,'' Michael C. Minnotte, 1996. Computing Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 28th Symposium on the Interface, 635-640.

``The Bias-Optimized Frequency Polygon,'' Michael C. Minnotte, 1996. 1995 Proceedings of the ASA Section on Statistical Computation, 119-124.

``Adaptive Kernel Density Estimation Using Mode Information,'' Michael C. Minnotte and Nizar S. Jawhar, 1995. Computing Science and Statistics: Proceedings of the 27th Symposium on the Interface, 545-549.

``The Decline of the Kodiak Island King Crab,'' David W. Scott, Michael C. Minnotte, and Ronnie W. West, 1991. 1990 Proceedings of the ASA Section on Statistical Graphics, 134-139.

Papers presented at professional meetings

``Statistical Visualization for Trees and Forests,'' August 8, 2005; 2005 Joint Statistical Meetings, Minneapolis, MN (invited roundtable luncheon chair).

``Higher-Order Density Estimation and Bump Hunting,'' June 9, 2005; 37th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, St. Louis, MO (contributed).

``Effects of Non-Gaussian Kernels on Multimodality Investigations,'' August 13, 2002; 2002 Joint Statistical Meetings, New York, NY (topic contributed).

``Graphical Analysis of High-Dimensional Classifiers,'' April 19, 2002; 34th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, Montreal, Canada (contributed).

``Higher-Order Histosplines: Superior Binned Density Estimation,'' December 20, 2001; International Conference on Statistics, Combinatorics, and Related Areas, Wollongong, Australia (invited).

``Visualization and Interpretation of High-Dimensional Classifiers,'' August 8, 2001; 2001 Joint Statistical Meetings, Atlanta, GA (contributed).

``Data Sharpening for Higher-Order Density Estimation,'' June 15, 2001; 33rd Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, Costa Mesa, CA (contributed).

``Higher-Order Density Estimation Through Data Sharpening,'' August 14, 2000; 2000 Joint Statistical Meetings, Indianapolis, IN (contributed).

``Nonparametric Likelihood Ratio Testing of Multimodality for Discrete and Binned Data,'' August 11, 1999; 1999 Joint Statistical Meetings, Baltimore, MD (contributed).

``The Data Image: A Tool for Exploring High Dimensional Data,'' August 11, 1998; 1998 Joint Statistical Meetings, Dallas, TX (invited).

``Higher-Order Histosplines: New Directions in Binned Smoothing,'' May 15, 1998; 30th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, Minneapolis, MN (contributed).

``Beyond Histograms: Superior Density Estimation with Binned Data,'' August 12, 1997; 1997 Joint Statistical Meetings, Anaheim, CA (contributed).

``Higher-Order Histosplines: Superior Binned Density Estimation,'' July 30, 1997; 60th Institute of Mathematical Statistics Annual Meeting, Park City, UT (contributed)

``The Mode Forest and Other Graphical Terrain,'' July 26, 1997; Mini-Conference on Computer Intensive Statistical Methods, Logan, UT.

``The Bumpy Road to the Mode Forest,'' May 16, 1997; 29th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, Houston, TX (contributed).

``Local Testing of Mode Existence,'' May 13, 1997; NSF Workshop: Bumps, Jumps, Clustering, and Discrimination, Houston, TX (invited).

``Statistics and the Internet,'' May 8, 1997; Spring, 1997 Meeting, Utah Chapter of the American Statistical Association, Brigham City, UT (invited).

``Higher-Order Histosplines: Density Estimation, Splines, and Bernoulli Polynomials,'' April 11, 1997; 1997 Annual Spring Meeting, The Intermountain Section of the Mathematical Association of America, Logan, UT (contributed).

``The Bumpy Road to the Mode Forest,'' February 21, 1997; Second World Conference of the International Association for Statistical Computing, Pasadena, CA (contributed).

``Fast Convergence of Nonparametric Density Estimates Using Binned Data,'' July 9, 1996; 28th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, Sydney, Australia (contributed).

``The Bias-Optimized Frequency Polygon,'' August 15, 1995; 1995 Joint Statistical Meetings, Orlando, FL (contributed).

``Adaptive Kernel Density Estimation Using Mode Information,'' June 24, 1995; 27th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, Pittsburgh, PA (contributed).

``The Bias-Optimized Frequency Polygon,'' June 17, 1994; 26th Symposium on the Interface: Computing Science and Statistics, Research Triangle Park, NC (contributed).

``The Mode Tree: Nonparametric Visualization of Density Features,'' August 10, 1993; 1993 Joint Statistical Meetings, San Francisco, CA (invited).

Invited colloquia

``Bias Reduction in Kernel Density Estimation via Data Sharpening,'' October 10, 2005; Colorado State University Department of Statistics.

``Visualization and Interpretation of High-Dimensional Classifiers,'' January 22, 2002; Brigham Young University Department of Statistics.

``Higher-Order Histosplines: Superior Binned Density Estimation,'' November 15, 2001; Washington University in St. Louis Department of Mathematics.

``Visualization and Interpretation of High-Dimensional Classifiers,'' July 26, 2001; Australian National University Centre for Mathematics and its Applications.

``Higher-Order Histosplines: Superior Binned Density Estimation,'' April 7, 2000; University of Western Australia Department of Mathematics and Statistics.

``Higher-Order Histosplines: Superior Binned Density Estimation,'' February 25, 2000; University of Auckland Department of Statistics.

``Higher-Order Histosplines: Superior Binned Density Estimation,'' February 17, 2000; University of Waikato (New Zealand) Department of Statistics.

``Higher-Order Histosplines: Superior Binned Density Estimation,'' November 18, 1999; Australian National University Centre for Mathematics and its Applications.

``Higher-Order Histosplines: Superior Density Estimation for Binned Data,'' September 5, 1997; George Mason University Department of Applied and Engineering Statistics.

``Higher-Order Histosplines: Superior Density Estimation for Binned Data,'' August 21, 1997; Naval Surface Warfare Center B Department.

``The Bumpy Road to the Mode Forest,'' April 15, 1997; Brigham Young University Department of Statistics.

``The Bumpy Road to the Mode Forest,'' September 4, 1996; George Mason University Department of Applied and Engineering Statistics.

``The Bumpy Road to the Mode Forest,'' August 29, 1996; University of South Carolina Department of Statistics.

Math 571: Theory of Probability. Fall, 1992; Fall, 1993; Fall, 1994.

Math 572: Introduction to Mathematical Statistics I. Winter, 1993; Winter, 1994; Winter, 1995.

Math 573: Introduction to Mathematical Statistics II. Spring, 1993; Spring, 1994; Spring, 1995.

Math 5710: Introduction to Probability. Summer, 1999; Summer, 2000; Summer, 2005.

Stat 201: Introduction to Statistics. Winter, 1994; Spring, 1994; Winter, 1995; Fall, 1995 (two sections); Winter, 1996.

Stat 301: Statistical Methods I. Spring, 1993; Spring, 1997.

Stat 505/605: Linear Regression. Spring, 1996; Spring, 1997; Spring, 1998.

Stat 601: Mathematical Statistics I. Fall, 1996; Fall, 1997.

Stat 602: Mathematical Statistics II. Winter, 1997; Winter, 1998.

Stat 603: Mathematical Statistics III. Spring, 1997; Spring, 1998.

Stat 681: Topics in Nonparametric Smoothing. Fall, 1997.

Stat 682: Topics in Nonparametric Smoothing. Winter, 1996.

Stat 752: Topics in Nonparametric Density Estimation. Fall, 1992.

Stat 1040: Introduction to Statistics. Spring, 1999; Fall, 2000; Spring, 2001; Fall, 2001 (two sections).

Stat 3000: Statistics for Scientists. Fall, 2002; Spring, 2003; Fall, 2003; Summer, 2004; Fall, 2004; Spring, 2005; Fall, 2005.

Stat 5300: Statistical Process Control. Spring, 1999; Spring, 2001; Spring, 2002; Spring, 2003; Spring, 2004; Spring, 2005.

Stat 6510: Resampling Methods. Fall, 2003.

Stat 6510: Modern Nonparametric Statistics. Fall, 2005.

Stat 6520: Nonparametric Density Estimation and Smoothing. Spring, 2002; Spring, 2004.

Stat 6560: Statistical Graphics and Visualization. Fall, 1998; Fall, 2000; Fall, 2002; Fall, 2004.

Stat 6710: Mathematical Statistics I. Fall, 1998.

Stat 6720: Mathematical Statistics II. Spring, 1999.

Ralph M. Johnson College of Science Lecture Series Committee, 1992-1993

Department of Mathematics and Statistics Graduate Committee, 1993-1996, 2000-2001

Department of Mathematics and Statistics Undergraduate Committee, 1996-1999

Department of Mathematics and Statistics Computer Committee, 2000-2005

Chair, 2001-2005

Utah State Math Contest, Exam Preparation Committee, 1997, 1998, 1999

Primary Creator, Junior Level Exam, 1997

Prize Coordinator, 1999

Statistics Faculty Search Committee, 1993-1994, 1995-1996, 1997-1998, 1998-1999, 2003-2004, 2004-2005, 2005-2006.

Chair, 2003-2004

Advisor, Mathematical Contest in Modeling, 1993-1997