David L. Banks

David L. Banks is an American statistician at Duke University.

Biography Banks was born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. He won an NSF Postdoctoral Research Fellowship in the Mathematical Sciences, which he took at UC Berkeley from 1984 to 1986. He co-founded the American Statistical Association’s Section on National Defense and Homeland Security, and has chaired that section, as well as the sections on Risk Analysis and on Statistical Learning and Data Mining. He has published 91 refereed articles, edited nine books, and written four monographs.

Research

Banks coauthored a survey article in 2006 on statistical aspects of data quality, and another in 2009 on adversarial risk analysis. He also co-authored a chapter titled Network Analysis of Wikipedia in the book Statistical Methods in e-Commerce Research, published by Wiley in 2008. Moreover, Banks studied the use of social network analysis for understanding disaster response and discussed several mathematical models for the evolution of a network.