Brian Gray

Brian Gray
Associate Dean, James I. Harrison Family Teaching Excellence Faculty Fellow
Manderson Graduate School of Business
Office: 103 Bidgood, 205-348-8912
Specialty Areas:
Applied statistics, exploratory data analysis, data mining, regression analysis, statistical computing and graphics
Education:
University of Alabama at Birmingham (B.S.), Clemson University (M.S. and Ph.D.).
Honors, Achievements and Affiliations:
Dr. Gray is an active member of the American Statistical Association. He has published research articles in journals such as Technometrics, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, The American Statistician, Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation, and Statistics and Computing. Dr. Gray received the Wilcoxon Prize for Best Practical Application Paper in Technometrics in 1984. He co-authored the book Business Cases in Statistical Decision-Making: Computer Based Applications. He has received several teaching awards from the M.B.A. and Executive M.B.A. Associations of The University of Alabama and Texas Christian University.

Selected Publications

  • Ellinger, A. E., Natarajarathinam, M., Adams, F., Gray, J. B., Hofman, D., and O’Marah, K., (2011), “Supply Chain Management Competency and Firm Financial Success,” Journal of Business Logistics, to appear.

  • Lam, M., Mittenthal, J., and Gray, J. B. (2009), “The Impact of Stopping Rules on Hierarchical Capacitated Clustering in Location Routing Problems,” Academy of Information and Management Sciences Journal, 12, 13-28.

  • Howington, E. B. and Gray, J. B. (2009), “A Matrix-Based Genetic Algorithm for Computing the Minimum Volume Ellipsoid,” IEEE Transactions on Evolutionary Computation, 13, 1247-1260.
  • Gray, J. B. and Fan, G. (2008), “Classification Tree Analysis Using TARGET,” Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 52, 1362-1372.
  • Fan, G. and Gray, J. B. (2005), “Regression Tree Analysis Using TARGET,” Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 14, 206-218.
  • Brooks, R. E. and Gray, J. B. (2004), “History of the Forecasters: An Assessment of the Semi-Annual U.S. Treasury Bond Yield Forecast Survey as Reported in The Wall Street Journal,” Journal of Portfolio Management, 31, 113-117.