Professor Emeritus, Applied Mathematics and Statistics; Professor, Computer Science (secondary appointment); PhD, University of Chicago
Prof. Jim Fill received his bachelor’s degree with a double major in mathematics and statistics from the University of Illinois in 1976. He then earned a master’s degree and PhD in statistics from the University of Chicago in 1979 and 1980, respectively. Fill worked as an assistant professor of statistics at Stanford University before joining the Whiting School of Engineering faculty in 1988 and has held visiting positions at the University of Chicago, MIT, and Microsoft Research.
Fill’s research focuses on probability and stochastic processes (especially concerning Markov chains and multivariate records), with work lying at the interface with theoretical computer science (especially concerning the analysis of algorithms).
Fill is a Fellow of the American Mathematical Society and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He also is the long-standing editor-in-chief of the Journal of Theoretical Probability and has been an associate editor for the Annals of Applied Probability, the Electronic Journal of Probability, and Electronic Communications in Probability. Fill is a four-time recipient of the Professor Joel Dean Award for Excellence in Teaching for the Department of Applied Mathematics and Statistics at Johns Hopkins.