CURRICULUM VITAE

JANE HORGAN: SCHOOL OF COMPUTING

E-mail: jhorgan@computing.dcu.ie

Tel: 353-1-70005260

Jane Horgan is an Associate Professor in Statistics at Dublin City University. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Statisticians, and a member of the Association of Statistics of Ireland. She has also lectured at the Autonomous University of Mexico, University of Dar-es-Salaam, Dublin Institute of Technology, University College Cork and the London School of Economics. She graduated from University College Cork with a double First Class Honours B.A in mathematics and statistics, and went on to the London School of Economics to specialise in statistics, where she obtained an MSc. She completed a PhD at London City University.

She is involved in research both singly and in collaboration in the areas of statistical sampling and estimation. Her research in sampling strategies for financial auditing has won an international research award Anbar's Citation of Excellence, for `outstanding contribution to the literature and body of knowledge', with invitations to speak at international conferences and universities. Her work on stratification has led to the development of geometric stratification which has become one of the standard methods of stratifying skewed populations.

She has published over a hundred pieces of work in international refereed journals, professional journals, conference proceedings, and commissioned reports. Her work can be found in a wide range of refereed journals, including Survey Methodology, the International Statistical Review, Journal of Business and Economic Statistics of the American Statistical Association, Indian Journal of Pure and Applied Mathematics, IEEE Transactions, South African Journal of Computing, Auditing: A Journal of Practice and Theory, J. de Contaduria y Administracion, The Irish Accounting Review, Accounting and Business Research. She has obtained funding from Enterprise Ireland to engage in International Collaboration, and to supervise research students (IRCSET)