Tony Cox is President of Cox Associates (www.cox-associates.com), a Denver-based applied research
company specializing in quantitative health risk analysis, causal modeling, advanced analytics, and
operations research. Dr. Cox is a member of the National Academy of Engineering (NAE); is Editor-in-Chief for Risk Analysis: An International Journal; and Area Editor for Real World Applications for the Journal of Heuristics. He is an Edelman Laureate of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Science and a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA). He holds a Ph.D. in Risk Analysis (1986) and an S.M. in Operations Research (1985), both from M.I.T; an AB from Harvard University (1978); and is a graduate of the Stanford Executive Program (1993).
He has served as Honorary Full Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado, Denver, where he has taught courses in risk analysis, health risk modeling, computational statistics and causality; and is Clinical Professor of Biostatistics and Informatics at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center.
Dr. Cox has taught many graduate and professional courses in risk analysis, decision analysis, and advanced analytics. He has authored and co-authored over 200 journal articles and book chapters on these fields. His most recent books are Breakthroughs in Decision Science and Risk Analysis (Wiley, 2015), Improving Risk Analysis(Springer, 2013), Risk Analysis of Complex and Uncertain Systems (Springer, 2009)and the Wiley Encyclopedia of Operations Research and Management Science (Wiley, 2011), which Dr. Cox coedited. His current research interests include computational statistical methods for causal inference in risk analysis, data-mining, and advanced analytics for enterprise risk management, insurance, and public policy applications