Dr. Jay Devore is Professor Emeritus of Statistics at California Polytechnic State University. He got his undergraduate degree in Engineering Science from the University of California at Berkeley, spent a year at the University of Sheffield in England, and his Ph.D. in statistics at Stanford University. Dr. DeVore previously taught at Oberlin College and the University of Florida and has had visiting appointments at Harvard, the University of Washington, Stanford, New York University, and Columbia University. From 1998 to 2006, he served as Chair of the Cal Poly Statistics Department. He has written several widely used statistics textbooks for scientists and engineers and an ebook in applied mathematical statistics.

Dr. Jay is the recipient of a distinguished teaching award from Cal Poly, is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and has served several terms as an Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking, tennis, reading, and travel to faraway places.