Hans-Hermann Bock

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Hans-Hermann Bock (born September 1, 1940 ) is a German statistician . He is professor emeritus for applied statistics and a former chair at the Institute for Statistics and Business Mathematics at RWTH Aachen University .

Life

Bock studied in Karlsruhe , Paris and Freiburg and received his doctorate in 1968 under Edward Walter while working as an assistant at Morgenstern in Freiburg with a thesis on cluster analysis . In 1978 he was appointed professor for applied statistics at the Institute for Statistics and Business Mathematics at RWTH Aachen University, where he taught until his retirement in 2005. Bock is an honorary doctor of the University of Cracow , an honorary member of the Belarusian Statistical Association, an honorary president of the GfKl and the first holder of the IFCS research medal.

education

Bock began his scientific career with a basic course in mathematics, physics and chemistry at the University of Karlsruhe , which he completed in 1961 with an intermediate diploma in mathematics. He then completed a degree in mathematics, statistics and econometrics at the Institut de statistique de l'université de Paris (ISUP), which he completed a year later with an exam in econometrics .

From 1962 Bock studied mathematics at the University of Freiburg. He completed this course three years later with a diploma. The title of his thesis was On the Application of Lyapunov's Methods to Stochastic Control Processes .

academic career

After receiving his diploma in 1965, Hans-Hermann Bock accepted a position as Morgenstern's assistant at the Institute for Statistics at the University of Freiburg. During this employment, in 1968, Bock received his doctorate with a thesis on cluster analysis. It is entitled Statistical Models for the Single and Double Classification of Normally Distributed Observations and, from the point of view of that time, was very far-sighted when considering the current importance of cluster analysis and its ramifications (such as data mining and unsupervised classification ).

From 1971, Bock and Morgenstern followed a call to the TU Hannover , where he worked as an academic senior counselor at the Institute for Mathematical Stochastics. In 1978 he accepted the call to RWTH Aachen University, where he was offered a professorship for applied statistics, which he held until his retirement in 2005. In addition, from 1999 to 2005 he was professor at the Institute for Statistics and Business Mathematics in Aachen.

In addition to his employment at German universities, Bock also had engagements at foreign universities. He held conference series and guest lectures in Italy and France, spent research semesters in the USA, Canada and France, and in 2000 worked on a research project in Japan, where he also attended several universities.

Engagement in scientific associations and in scientific publications

In addition to his professional expertise and research results, Bock also distinguished himself through international lecturing and organizational talent, which was particularly useful for his involvement in scientific associations.

In 1977 he was one of the co-founders of the Society for Classification (GfKl) . Two years later he founded the working group on data analysis and numerical classification (AG DANK) within the organization, of which he was head until 2001. He also held the office of President of the GfKl from 1986 to 1995. In 2007 Bock was made an honorary member and honorary president of the GfKl for his commitment to society.

Bock also appears as a founding member of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) and as the first president of the association from 1985 to 1989. In 2015, the same organization presented Bock with the Research Medal, a research award from the IFCS.

Bock is the author of numerous publications on the subjects of data science, classification, statistics, cluster analysis and the like. He is also co-founder and editor of the academic series Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization and the Springer magazine Advances in Data Analysis and Classification

Awards and honorary degrees

  • Honorary Member of the Belarusian Statistical Association (August 2000)
  • Honorary member and president of the GfKl (March 2008)
  • Award of an honorary doctorate by the University of Krakow in Poland (May 2008)
  • Awarded the Research Medal of the IFCS (July 2015)
  • Award of the DAGStat medal for special services to statistics in Germany by the German Statistics Working Group (March 2016)

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f g Society for Classification: Letters for Classification. January 2016, accessed on April 17, 2017 (German).
  2. ↑ a b c d e Hans-Hermann Bock: CV of Prof. i. R. Dr. Dr. H. c. Hans Hermann Bock. April 2016. Retrieved April 17, 2017 .
  3. ^ Publication by Hans-Hermann Bock. August 2015, accessed April 24, 2017 .
personal data
SURNAME Bock, Hans-Hermann
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German statistician
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1940