Paul Whitney
Dr. Paul Whitney holds a Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin - Madison (1984). Dr. Whitney has accomplished diverse technical projects during his more than 20 years at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, ranging from environmental monitoring to image analysis to text visualization and analysis. A critical component across these projects is evaluation of the performance of the technologies. Dr. Whitney has organized both designed experiments and observational studies to support these evaluations. He currently leads a set of technical activities in social modeling for the U.S. Government, oversees the technical direction of a collection of projects in decision support and visualization, and is researching mathematics and algorithms for the analysis of large-scale graphs.