Eric Chicken

Eric Chicken is a professor and chair of the Department of Statistics at Florida State University. He received his Ph.D. in statistics at Purdue University. His research is primarily in the fields of function estimation and statistical process control. His research is broadly interdisciplinary, with applications and collaborations in engineering, medicine, hydrology, education and operations research. 

Chicken has been funded by several federal and state agencies including the National Science Foundation and the Department of Defense. He is a fellow of the Institute for Defense Analyses and an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, the main professional association for statisticians, and has been awarded two Oak Ridge Institute for Science and Education Fellowships. He has also served as the President of the Florida Chapter of the American Statistical Association, organized conferences related to his research, and remains active in editorial and review duties with journals and grant organizations in his research area.