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Professor Jerzy Filar
Position: Foundation Professor of Mathematics & Statistics Professor Jerzy Filar
Division/Portfolio: Division of Information Technology, Engineering and the Environment
School/Unit: School of Mathematics and Statistics
Campus: Mawson Lakes Campus
Office: OC1-12
Telephone: +61 8 830 23530
Fax: +61 8 830 25785
Email: Jerzy_dot_Filar_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Jerzy.Filar


Curriculum Vitae

Jerzy Filar is Editor-in-chief of Environmental Modeling & Assessment

Euler's "Knight's Tour" (visualisation by Kuva Jacobs)

Jerzy Filar's Erdos Number: 3

Jerzy Filar's Mathematical Genealogy. From N. Tartaglia Fontana in 16th century Italy, through Galileo Galilei, I.Newton, A. Cayley, R.A. Fisher, C.R. Rao, T.E.S. Raghavan and many others to G.T. Nguyen, 2009, Australia.

Professional associations

Fellow, Australian Mathematical Society

Member, INFORMS

Qualifications

1972 B.Sc.(Hons) Mathematical Statistics University of Melbourne, Australia

1975 M.Sc.Statistics, Monash University, Australia

1977 M.A. Mathematics, University of Illinois, Chicago

1980 Ph.D. Mathematics, University of Illinois, Chicago

Research interests

  • Operations Research/Optimization with emphasis on Markov Decision Processes; Theory of Games; Environmental Modelling; Optimal Control; Linear and Nonlinear Programming, and the applications of the above in engineering and economics.

Research publications

Book: Filar, J.A. and Vrieze, O.J. "Competitive Markov Decision Processes - Theory, Algorithms, and Applications" Springer-Verlag, New York, 1996.

Edited Volume: Filar, J.A. and Carraro, C. "Control and Game Theoretic Models of the Environment", Birkhauser, New York, 1995.

Edited Volume: Filar, J.A., Gaitsgory, V and Mizukami, K. "Contributions to Dynamic Games", Birkhauser, New York, 2000.

Edited Volume: Hou, Z., Filar, J.A. and Chen, A. and “Markov Processes and Controlled Markov Chains”, Kluwer, Boston, 2002.

Filar, J.A. “Mathematical Models” In: KNOWLEDGE FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT An Insight into the Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems, UNESCO/EOLSS, released at the World Summit on Sustainable Development, Johannesburg, South Africa, ISBN: 0 9542989-0-X, Vol. I (2002) pp 339-354.

Filar, J. A., “Controlled Markov Chains, Graphs and Hamiltonicity”, Foundations and Trends in Stochastic Systems, vol. 1, no. 2 (2006), pp.1 -81.

See CV for a listing of approximately 90 other research papers.

Expertise for Media Contact

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Mathematics

  • Applied Probability
  • Control Theory
  • Environmental Modelling
  • Game Theory
  • Markov Decision Processes
  • Operations Research
  • Optimisation
  • Use of Statistics in Litigation.
  • Mathematics
  • Statistics

Research Degree Supervisor

Successfully supervised, or co-supervised, fifteen PhD students and two Master's students at The Johns Hopkins University, the University of Maryland at Baltimore County and the University of South Australia. Jerzy Filar's former post graduate students now work in universities, research institutes and companies, world wide.

His latest student (co-supervised with V. Ejov) is Giang T. Nguyen, who in 2009 was the University of South Australia's youngest ever PhD graduate. See Nguyen.



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