Dr. Paul F. Velleman has a global reputation for innovative Statistics education. He is the designer and author of the multimedia Statistics program ActivStats, for which he was awarded the ICTCM Award for Innovation in Using Technology in College Mathematics and the EDUCOM Medal for innovative uses of computers in teaching statistics. Paul also developed the award-winning statistics program Internet site Data and Story Library (DASL) (ASL.datadesk.com) which provides data sets for teaching Statistics and Data Desk.

Dr. Velleman has taught Statistics at Cornell University since 1975, where he was awarded the MacIntyre Award for Exemplary Teaching. He got an A.B. from Dartmouth College in Mathematics and Social Science, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Statistics from Princeton University. His research often deals with statistical graphics and data analysis methods.