Zachary G. Stoumbos

The faculty, staff, and students of Rutgers Business School–Newark and New Brunswick mourn the loss of Zachary G. Stoumbos, who passed away on January 28 after a long and valiant struggle with leukemia. He was 44.

An award-winning researcher, teacher, and chair and professor of management science and information systems, he is described by Executive Vice Dean Rosa Oppenheim as “above all, a most devoted friend and colleague who inspired all of us with his bravery and optimism.”

Stoumbos joined the faculty of Rutgers Business School in 1994 and was elected department chair in 2001.

Among his major honors, in 2005 he was elected a Lifetime Fellow of the International Statistical Institute, and in 2007, he was elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), an honor reserved for a very small number of ASA members for making outstanding contributions in their field.

Stoumbos was the recipient of the 2003 Jack Youden Prize of the ASA and the American Society for Quality (ASQ) for the best research paper in the physical, chemical, and engineering sciences. He also was the recipient of the highly prestigious 2004 ASQ Brumbaugh Award for the paper with the greatest single contribution to the development of the industrial application of quality control and statistical process control. Stoumbos was twice the recipient of the Paul Nadler Teaching Excellence Award and a recipient of outstanding researcher awards at Rutgers Business School.

He served as the 2004 chair-elect and 2005 chair of the quality, statistics, and reliability section of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS). He is a senior member of ASQ and of the Institute of Industrial Engineers. He was a member of INFORMS, of ASA, and of the International Federation of Nonlinear Analysts. He also was a member of the editorial review board of the Journal of Quality Technology.

Stoumbos was widely published in leading research journals and served as a scientific adviser and consultant for a large number of major corporations and organizations nationally and internationally. His research interests included statistical process control, data mining and classification analysis, time series analysis and forecasting, information systems and technology, financial and risk modeling, public-health surveillance, terrorism and bioterrorism preparedness, psychometrics, and supply-chain management.

Stoumbos is survived by his wife, Julia, and their three children. For more information, visit http://zachary.rutgers.edu.