Raja Velu

Professor Emeritus, Managerial Statistics
Raja
Ph.D., Business/Statistics, University of Wisconsin - Madison
Professor Velu’s research interests in statistics include multivariate methods, longitudinal and time series modeling, and exploratory data analysis. He is currently interested in applied areas such as analysis of high frequency data in finance, Asset Pricing and Models for Big Data.

Professor Velu has worked as part of the Intelligent Information Systems Group at IBM-Almaden Lab, where he conducted cutting-edge research on data mining, and as part of the forecasting team at Yahoo!, in developing the company’s newest ad platform, Panama. He has published in Biometrika and the Journal of Econometrics, among many others, and has a research monograph published by Springer. His research is cited in various social and natural sciences fields.

He is also involved in training and consulting for such leading companies as Saks Fifth Avenue and Time, Inc.

Publications

  • Theodore Wilbur Anderson, Jr.

    2008 Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference,138,9,2593-2594, Lai, T., Olkin, I.

  • Seemingly unrelated reduced-rank regression model

    2008 Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference,138,9,2837-2846, Richards, J.

  • Partially reduced-rank multivariate regression models

    2006 Statistica Sinica,16,3,899-917, Reinsel, G.

  • Reduced-rank growth curve models

    2003 Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference,114,1-2,107-129, Reinsel, G.

  • Regression of fibrosis in chronic hepatitis C after therapy with interferon and ribavirin

    2003 Digestive Diseases and Sciences,48,7,1425-1430, Arif, A., Levine, R., Sanderson, S., Bank, L., Shah, A., Mahl, T., Gregory, D.

  • Cardiac involvement in patients with acute neurologic disease: Confirmation with cardiac troponin I

    2000 Archives of Internal Medicine,160,20,3153-3158, Dixit, S., Castle, M., Swisher, L., Hodge, C., Jaffe, A.

  • Testing multi-beta asset pricing models

    1999 Journal of Empirical Finance,6,3,219-241, Zhou, G.

  • Testing for omitted variables and non-linearity in regression models for longitudinal data

    1994 Statistics in Medicine,13,21,2219-2231, Palta, M., Yao, T.

  • Estimation of parent-offspring correlation

    1990 Biometrika,77,3,557-562, Roa, M.

  • Reduced rank regression with autoregressive errors

    1987 Journal of Econometrics,35,2-3,317-335, Reinsel, G.

  • Reduced rank models for multiple time series

    1986 Biometrika,73,1,105-118, Reinsel, G., Wichern, D.

  • Jan 01, 2013

    Chancellor's Excellence Citation Award

    Syracuse University
  • Jun 01, 2012

    Faculty Fellow

    JPMC
  • Aug 01, 2011

    Faculty Fellow

    JPMC
  • Jan 01, 2006

    Elected Member, International Statistics Institute

  • Jan 01, 1989

    Campus Researcher Award

    University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
  • Jan 01, 1987

    Best Researcher Award

    College of Business and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
  • Jan 01, 1986

    Best Researcher Award

    College of Business and Economics, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater