People: Faculty

Address: 2605 Statistics-Computer Building University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92521 Telephone: 951-827-3014 Email: daniel.jeske@ucr.edu Fax: 951-827-3286 Statistical Consulting Collaboratory: www.collaboratory.ucr.edu

• Summer 2008 – Present:  University of California, Riverside, Department of Statistics
  • Department Chair


• Spring 2007 – Present:  University of California, Riverside, Department of Statistics
  • Professor of Statistics and Director of the Statistical Consulting Collaboratory. Responsibilities include teaching, consulting and research.
  
  
• Fall 2003 – Spring 2007:  University of California, Riverside, Department of Statistics
  • Associate Professor of Statistics and Director of the Statistical Consulting Collaboratory. Responsibilities include teaching, consulting and research
  
  
• Summer 2008 – Present:  
  • Associate Editor, The American Statistician


• 1990 – 2003:  Rutgers University Statistics Department, Busch Campus, Piscataway NJ
  • Visiting Part-Time Lecturer.
  
  
• 1985 – 2003:  Bell Laboratories, Holmdel NJ
  • Technical Manager, 1999
  • Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, 1992
  • Hired as Member of Technical Staff, 1985

• Ph.D.in Statistics, 1985, Iowa State University, Ames IA
  • Dissertation: “Prediction Intervals for the realization of a random variable under a general Mixed Linear Model”
  • Major Professor: David A. Harville
  
  
• M.S. in Statistics, 1982, Iowa State University, Ames, IA
  
• B.S. in Mathematics and Computer Science, 1980, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville TN

• University of California Riverside
  • Statistics 293A-B-C: Statistical Consulting and Data Analysis
  • Statistics 155: Probability and Statistics for Science and Engineering
  
  
• Rutgers University Statistics Department, Busch Campus, Piscataway NJ
  • Life Data Analysis
  • Nonparametric Methods
  • Probability Models
  • Time Series Analysis
  • Quality Control
  • Probability Models
  • Regression Analysis
  • Experimental Design
  • Advanced Regression Analysis
  • Special Topics in ANOVA

• 2004 – 2006: PI for $104,989 NSF Grant: "Collaborative Research: Tracking Statistics and Inference for Indirect Measurements"
• 2005: PI for $320,144 Department of Homeland Security Grant: "Data Generation Capability for Information Discovery and Analysis Systems Evaluation"
• 2005: PI for $1,800 UCR Innovative Use of Computers Grant: "Development of Software Skills to Analyze Markov Process Models"
• 2007: co-PI for $10,000 UCR Interdisciplinary Research Grant: "Development of a Portable Sequential Sampling Device"
• 2008 – 2012: co-PI for $1.4M NIH Grant: "Identifying Microorganisms Involved in Human Health and Disease Processes."

• 2003 – 2004: $19,445
• 2004 – 2005: $131,860
• 2005 – 2006: $147,154
• 2006 – 2007: $100,106
• 2007 – 2008: $141,462

• Qi Zhang, 2007, "Different Statistical Tests to Assess the Validity of One-Part Software Reliability Models"
• Scott Lesch, 2007, "A New Class of Goodness-of-Fit Tests Based on Linear Functions of Order Statistics For the Exponential Distribution Under General Type II Censoring Schemes"
• Veronica Montes De Oca, 2008, "Nonparametric Cusum Algorithms with Applications to Network Surveillance"
• Yingtao Bi, 2008,"Theoretical Analysis of Classification Under CCC-Noise and Its Application to Semi-Supervised Text Mining"
• Payal Shah, 2008, "Sequential Sampling Methods Using Generalized Linear Models With Applications to Pest Density Estimation"
• Hua Yu, 2009, "Neutral Zone Classifiers Within a Decision-Theoretic Framework"

Journal Papers Published

Yu, H., Jeske, D. R., Ruegger, P., and Borneman, J., A Three-Class Neutral Zone Classifier Using a Decision-Theoretic Approach with Application to DNA Array Analyses, to appear in Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics.

Li, J. and Jeske, D. R. Sequential Fixed Width Confidence Intervals for the Offset Between Two Network Clocks, to appear in Sequential Analysis .

Jeske, D. R., Montes de Occa, V., Bischoff, W. and Marvasti, M. CUSUM Techniques for Timeslot Sequences with Applications to Network Surveillance, to appear in Journal of Computational Statistics and Data Analysis.

Shah, P., Jeske, D. R. and Luck, R., Sequential Hypothesis Testing Techniques for Pest Count Models with Nuisance Parameters, to appear in Journal of Economic Entomology.

Li, J. and Jeske, D. R. (2009) Maximum Likelihood Estimators of Clock Offset and Skew under Exponential Delay, Journal of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Vol. 25, pp. 445-459 (see also, errata, pp. 506-507).

Lesch, S. and Jeske, D. R (2009)., Some Suggestions for Teaching about Normal Approximations to Poisson and Binomial Distribution Functions, The American Statistician, Vol. 63, pp. 274-277.

Jeske, D. R., Xu, H., Blessinger, T., Jensen, P. and Trumble, J. Testing for the Equality of EC50 Values in the Presence of Unequal Slopes with Application to Toxicity of Selenium Types, to appear in Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics.

Lesch, S., M., Arnold, B. C. And Jeske, D. R. (2009), Simple and Accurate Approximations for Computing Covariance Matrices of Gamma and Weibull Order Statistics, Communications in Statistics ­
Simmulation and Computation, Vol. 38, pp. 590-609.

Li, J., Jeske, D. R. and Pettyjohn, J. (2009). Approximate and Generalized Confidence Intervals for the Offset Between Two Network Clocks, Statistical Methodology, Vol.6, pp. 97-107

Jeske, D. R., Lesch, S. M. and Deng, H. (2007). The Merging of Statistics Education, Statistical Consulting and Applied Research: A Case Study, Journal of Statistics Education, Vol. 15, No. 3.

Jeske, D. R., Lockhart, R. A., Stephens, M. A. and Zhang, Q. (2008). Cramer-von Mises tests for the Compatibility of Two Software Operating Environments, Technometrics, Vol. 50, No. 1, pp. 53-63.

Jeske, D. R., Wang, G. and McGiffen, M.A. (2007) Test for Grouped Ordering of Population Means with Application to Inference about Growing Habits of Cowpea Genotypes, Biometrics, Vol. 63, pp. 1278-1282.

Lee, J. W., Bajwa, P. J., Carson, M. J., Jeske, D. R., Cong, Y., Elson, O., Lytle, C., and Straus, D. S. (2007), Fenofibrate Represses Interleukin-17 and Interferon-g Expression and Improves Colitis in Interleukin-10 Deficient Mice, Gastroenterology, Vol. 133, No. 1, pp. 108-123.

Jeske, D. R., Liu, Z., Bent, E., and Borneman, J. (2007), Classification Rules that Include Neutral Zones and their Application to Microbrial Community Profiling, Communication in Statistics - Theory and Methods , Vol. 36, No. 10, pp. 1965-1980

Jeske, D. R. and Liu, R. Y. (2007), Mining and Tracking Useful Features in Massive Text Data with Applications to Risk Management, Technometrics, Vol. 49, pp. 116-128.

Jeske, D. R. and Zhang, Q (2007). Assessing the Compatibility of of Software Environments Using Likelihood Ratio Tests and Early Detection Tests, Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 80, pp. 205-216.

Malisch, J. L., W. Saltzman, F. R. Gomes, E. L. Rezende, D. R. Jeske, and T. Garland, Jr. (2007). Basal and stress-induced plasma corticosterone concentrations of mice selectively bred for high voluntary wheel running, Physiological and Biochemical Zoology, Vol. 80, pp. 146-156.

Teng, X., Pham, H. and Jeske, D. R. (2006), Reliability Modeling of Hardware and Software Interactions and Its Applications, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 55, pp. 571-577.

Jeske, D. R. and A. Chakravartty (2006), Effectiveness of Bootstrap Bias Correction in the Context of Clock Offset Estimators, Technometrics, Vol. 48, pp. 530-538.

Bent, E., Ying, B., Figueroa, A., Ye, J., Fu, Q., Liu, Z., McDonald, V., Jeske, D. R., Jiang, T. and Borneman, J. (2006), Development of a 9,600 clone procedure for oligonucleotide fingerprinting of rRNA genes: utilization to identify soil bacteria rRNA genes that correlate in abundance with the development of avocado root rot, Journal of Microbiological Methods, Vol. 67, pp. 171-180.

Coviella, C. E., Garcia, J.F., Jeske, D. R., Redak, R. A. and Luck, R. F. (2006), "The Feasibility of Tracking Within Field Movements of Homaloodisca coagulata and Estimating its Densities Using Florescent Dusts in Mark-Release-Recapture Experiments," Journal of Economic Entomology, Vol. 99, pp. 1051-1057.

Jeske, D. R., Gokhale, D. V. and Ye, L. (2006), Generating Synthetic Data from Marginal Fitting for Testing the Efficacy of Data Mining Tools, International Journal of Production Research, Vol. 44, No. 14, pp. 2711-2730.

Wiglesworth, A., Mosqueda, L., Burnight, K., Younglove, T., and Jeske, D. R. (2006), Findings from an Elder Abuse Forensic Center, The Gerontologist, Vol. 46, No. 2, pp. 277-283.

Jeske, D. R., Zhang, X. and Pham, L. (2005). Adjusting Software Failure Rates that are Estimated from Test Data, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 54, pp. 107-114.

Jeske, D. R. (2005). On the Maximum Likelihood Estimation of Clock Offset, IEEE Transactions on Communications, Vol. 53, pp. 53-54.

Jeske, D. R. and Zhang, X. (2005). Some Successful Approaches to Software Reliability Modeling in Industry, Journal of Systems and Software, Vol. 74, pp. 85-99.

Jeske, D. R. and Blessinger, T. (2004). Tunable Approximations for the Mean and Variance of Heterogeneous Geometrically Distributed Random Variables, The American Statistician, Vol. 58, No. 4, pp. 322-327.

Jeske, D. R. and Sampath, A. (2004). Signal-to-Noise Ratio Estimation for Wireless Communication Systems: Methods and Analysis, Naval Research Logistics, Vol. 51, pp. 721-740.

Jeske, D. R. and Sampath, A. (2003). Estimation of Clock Offset Using Bootstrap Bias-Correction Techniques, Technometrics, Vol. 45 No. 3, pp. 256-261.

Jeske, D. R. and Sampath, A. (2003). A Real Example that Illustrates Interesting Properties of Bootstrap Bias-Corrected Estimators, The American Statistician, Vol. 57 No. 1, pp. 62-65.

Zhang, X., Jeske, D. R., and Pham, H. (2002). Calibrating Software Reliability Models When Test Data Does Not Reflect the User Operational Profile, Journal of Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry, Vol. 18, Issue 1, pp. 87-99.

Jeske, D. R. and Pham, H. (2001). On the Maximum Likelihood Estimates for the Goel-Okumoto Software Reliability Model, The American Statistician, Vol. 55 No. 3, pp. 219-222.

Jeske, D. R., Qureshi, M. and Muldoon, E. (2000). A Bayesian Methodology for Estimating the Failure Rate of Software, International Journal of Reliability, Quality and Safety Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 153-168.

Doshi, B. T., Dravida, S., Jeske, D. R., Murti, K. and Samadi, B (1999). Performance Analysis of Switch Access Systems, Bell Labs Technical Journal, April-June, pp. 197-208.

Jeske, D. R. and Marlow, N. (1997). Alternative Prediction Intervals for Pareto Proportions, Journal of Quality Technology, Vol. 29 No. 3, pp. 317-326.

Jeske, D. R., Seder, M. A. and Ziegler, J. (1997). GeoRisk: Statistical and Visual Characterization of Risk Factors. Electronic Publications: Disaster Recovery Journal http://www.drj.com/Ezine/ezindex.html.

Jeske, D. R. (1996). Estimating the Cumulative Downtime Distribution of Highly Reliable components, IEEE Transactions on Reliability, Vol. 45 No. 3 pp. 369-374.

Jeske, D. R. (1994). Illustrating the Gauss-Markov Theorem, The American Statistician, Vol. 48 No. 3, pp.237-238.

Jeske, D. R. (1993). Predicting the Value of an Integer-Valued Random Variable. Statistics and Probability Letters, Vol. 16, pp. 297-300

Harville, D. A. and Jeske, D. R. (1992). Mean Squared Error of Estimation and Prediction Under a General Mixed Linear Model, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 87 pp. 724-731.

Jeske, D. R. and Harville, D. A. (1988). Prediction-Interval Procedures and (Fixed-Effects) Confidence Interval Procedures for Mixed Linear Models, Communications in Statistics – Theory and Methods, Vol. 17, pp. 1053-1087.

Jeske, D. R. (2008) Jackknife Bias Correction of a Clock Offset Estimator, in Advances in Mathematical and Statistical Modeling, edited by B. C. Arnold, N. Balakrishnan, J. M. Sarabia and R. Minguez, Birkhauser, pp. 245-254.

Jeske, D. R. and Liu, R. Y. (2004) Mining Massive Text Data and Developing Tracking Statistics, in Classification, Clustering and Data Mining Applications, edited by D. Banks, Springer-Verlag, pp. 495-510.

Sampath, A. and D. R. Jeske (2003). Signal to Interference and Noise Ratio in Communication Systems as a Quality Measure, in Reliability, Survivability and Quality of Large Scale Telecommunication Systems, edited by P. Stavroulakis, John Wiley, pp. 216-230.

Jeske, D. R. (2003), Review of “Statistical Inference: An Integrated Approach,” by H. S. Migon and D. Gammerman, New York: Oxford University Press, Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 98, No. 461, p. 259.

Liao, S., Yao, F., Ahmed, S. and Jeske, D. R., (2008), Survival of an Inpatient Geropsychiatry Population After Discharge: Appropriateness of Hospice Referrals, poster presentation at the Annual Scientific Meeting of the American Geriatrics Society.

Jeske, D. R. (2008), An Introduction to Software Reliability Modeling, (Tutorial) Proceedings of the 54th Annual Reliability, Availability, and Maintainability Symposium (Las Vegas, NV).

Shah, P., Montes de Oca, V., Jew, B., Lin, P., and Jeske, D. R. (2007), "Developing Web-Based Instruction Tools for Teaching Introductory Statistics," (Poster) EDUCAUSE Western Regional Conference, (San Francisco, CA).

Jeske, D. R. and Sampath, A. (2006), Restoration Strategies in Mesh Optical Networks: Cost Vs. Service Availability, Proceedings of the 12th International Symposium on Dependable Computing, (Acceptance Ratio: 57/117 = 49%) (Riverside, CA), pp. 147-153.

Jeske, D. R., Samadi, B., Lin, P. J., Rendon, C., and Xiao, R. (2006), Synthetic Data Generation Capabilities for Testing Data Mining Tools, Proceedings of the Military Conference on Communications (MILCOM) [CD-ROM] (Washington, DC).

Jeske, D. R. (2006) Jackknife Bias Correction of a Clock Offset Estimator, Proceedings of the International Conference on Mathematical and Statistical Modeling in Honor of Enrique Castillo (Invited) [CD-ROM] (Ciudad Real, Spain)

Bi, Y., Jeske, D. R. and Liu, R. Y. (2006) Semi-Supervised Text Classification: Partial Training from Unlabeled Data, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) [CD-ROM], (Orlando, FL).

Lin, P. J., Samadi, B., Jeske, D. R., Cox, S., Rendon, C. J., Holt, D., Xiao, R. and Cipolone, A., (2006) Development of a Synthetic Data Set Generator for Building and Testing Information Discovery Systems, Proceedings of the 3rd International Conference on Information Technology (Las Vegas, NV) pp. 707-712.

Jeske, D. R., Samadi, B., Lin, P. J., Ye, L, Cox, S., Xiao, R., Younglove, Ly, M., Holt, D. and Rich, R. (2005) Generation of Synthetic Data Sets for Evaluating the Accuracy of Knowledge Discovery Systems, Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGKDD International Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining, (Chicago, IL) (Acceptance Ratio: 25/75 = 33%) pp. 756-762.

Jeske, D. R. and Liu, R. Y. (2004) Mining Massive Text Data and Developing Tracking Statistics (Chicago), in Classification, Clustering and Data Mining Applications, the Proceedings of the 9^th Meeting of the International Federation of Classification Societies, edited by D. Banks, pp. 495-510.

Doshi, B., Jeske, D. R., Raman, N. and Sampath, A. (2003) Reliability and Capacity Efficiency of Restoration Strategies for Telecommunication Network, Proceedings of the 4^th International Conference on the Design of Reliable Communication Networks, (Banff, Canada) (Acceptance Ratio: 60/136 = 44%) pp. 440-447.

Ji, T. and Jeske, D. R. (2002) Generalization of a Switch Access System Call Blocking Model, Proceedings of the IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Taipei) (Acceptance Ratio: 606/1980 = 31%) pp. 1880-1884.

Budka, K., Calin, D. and Jeske, D. R. (2002) A Bayesian Method to Improve Geolocation Accuracy of GSM Systems, Proceedings of the 56^th IEEE Fall Vehicular Technology Conference [CD-ROM], Piscataway, NJ: IEEE. (Vancouver) (Acceptance Ratio: 450/1146 = 39%) pp. 1021-1025.

Janczewski, C., Jeske, D. R., Murti, K., Nagarajan, R. and Sampath, A. (2002) Cost, Restoration Performance and Reliability of Optical Networks with Shared and Dedicated Protection Schemes, Proceedings of the National Fiber Optic Engineers Conference [CD-ROM], Morristown, NJ: Telcordia Technologies, (Dallas) (Acceptance Ratio: 50%) pp. 2037-2048.

Jeske, D. R., Samadi, B., Sohraby, K., Wang, Y. and Zhang, Q. (2002) QoS with an Edge-based Call Admission Control in IP Networks, Proceedings of the 2^nd International IFIP Networking Conference (Pisa) (Acceptance Ratio: 82/314 = 39%), pp. 178-189.

Jeske, D. R., Zhang, X. and Pham, L. (2001) Accounting for Realities when Estimating the User-Perceived Failure Rate of Software, Proceedings of the 12^th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (Hong Kong) (Acceptance Ratio: 38/98 = 39%), pp. 332-338.

Jeske, D. R. and Sampath, A. (2001). Signal-to-Interference Ratio Estimation Based on Decision Feedback, Proceedings of the 53^rd Spring IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference (Greece) (Est. Acceptance Ratio: 39%), pp. 2484-2488.

Sampath, A. and Jeske, D. R. (2001) Analysis of Signal -to-Interference Ratio (SIR) Estimation Methods for Wireless Communication Systems, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (Helsinki) (Acceptance Ratio: 628/1145 = 55%), pp. 2499-2503.

Jeske, D. R., Matragi, W. and Samadi, B. (2001).  Adaptive Play-out Algorithms for Voice Packets in a LAN Environment, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (Helsinki) (Acceptance Ratio: 628/1145 = 55%), pp. 775-779.

Jeske, D. R., Qureshi, M. and Muldoon, E. (2000). A Bayesian Methodology for Estimating the Failure Rate of Software, Proceedings of 6th ISSAT International Conference on Reliability and Quality in Design (Orlando) (Est. Acceptance Ratio: 75%), pp. 165-174.

Jeske, D. R. and Qureshi, M. (2000). Estimating the Failure Rate of Evolving Software, Proceedings of 11^th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering  (San Jose) (Est. Acceptance Ratio: 40%), pp. 52-61.

Doshi, B. T., Dravida, S., Jeske, D. R., Murti, K. and Samadi, B (1998). Performance Analysis of Switch Access Systems, Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Sydney) (Est. Acceptance Ratio: 480/1200 = 40%), pp. 1135-1141.

Pant H. and Jeske, D. R. (1998). Software Reliability Predictions for Distributed Software, Proceedings of the 9^th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (Paderborn) (Est. Acceptance Ratio: 40%), pp. 11-21.

Jeske, D. R. and Marlow, N. (1997). Alternative Prediction Intervals for Pareto Proportions, ASQC’s 51^st Annual Quality Congress Proceedings (Orlando) (Est. Acceptance Ratio: 25%) pp. 274-282.

Qureshi, M. A. and Jeske, D. R. (1997). Using Proxy Failure Times With the Jelinski-Moranda Software Reliability Model, Proceedings of the 8^th International Symposium on Software Reliability Engineering (Albuquerque) (Est. Acceptance Ratio: 40%), pp. 358-365.

Jeske, D. R., Qureshi, M. A. and Nagarajan, R. (1997) . Sparing Rules for Duplexed Units. Proceedings of IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (Egypt) (Est. Acceptance Ratio: 55%), pp. 449-453.

Jeske, D. R. (1995). Estimating the Cumulative Downtime Distribution of Highly Reliable Components. Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Communications (Seattle) (Est. Acceptance Ratio: 38%), pp. 177-181.

Jeske, D. R. (1992). A Model for Circuit Unavailability, Proceedings of IEEE Global Telecommunications Conference (Chicago) (Est. Acceptance Rate: 31%), pp. 1657-1661.

Bose, R. Garzia, M. Hoeflin, D. Jeske, D. and Paulson, W. (1992). Availability Measures for Switching Systems, Proceedings of the International Switching Symposium (Yokohama) (Est. Acceptance Ratio: 40%), pp. 364-368.

Jeske, D. R. and Tsolakis, A. I. (1990). Statistical Characterization of Bit Errors In a Digital Radio Channel, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (Atlanta) (Est. Acceptance Ratio: 38%), pp. 1177-1180.

Kostal, H., Jeske, D. R., Prabu, V. K. and Lystad, G. D. (1987). Advanced Engineering Methods for Digital Radio Route Design, Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Communications (Seattle) (Est. Acceptance Ratio: 38%), pp. 666-671.

Zhang, Q., Rendon, C., Jeske, D. R., Montes de Oca, V. and Marvasti, M. (2007), A Nonparametric Cusum Algorithm for Timeslot Sequences with Applications to Network Surveillance, Proceedings of the High Assurance Systems Engineering Conference, (Dallas) p. 152.

Chakravartty, A. and Jeske, D. R. (2006) Advanced Sequential Sampling Methods and Their Implementation Within Portable Computing Environments, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of The American Statistical Association, (Seattle) p 469.

Pham, L., Zhang, X. and Jeske, D. R. (2002) Scaling System Test Software Failure Rate Estimates For Use In Field Environments, Proceedings of the Annual Conference of The American Statistical Association, (New York) pp. 2692-2696.

Jeske, D. R., Willis, T. M. and So, Y. (1991). Evaluating the Probability Distribution of the Sum of Independent Finite Integer-Valued Random Variables. Proceedings of the SAS Users Group International Conference, (New Orleans) pp. 1461-1466.

Jeske, D. R. and Fulenwider, D. (1989). Determination of Polynomial Sums-of-Squares Contrast Coefficients: An Application of Model Reparametrization Results Using the GLM Procedure, Proceedings of the SAS Users Group International Conference, (San Francisco) pp. 1340-1343.

Granted

“Geolocation Estimation Method for CDMA Terminals Based on Pilot Strength Measurements,” application granted on 7/17/01, US Patent No. 6,263,208, with K. K. Chang and K. M. Rege.

“A Bayesian-Update Based Location Prediction Method for CDMA Systems,” application granted on 5/13/03, US Patent No. 6,564,065, with K. K. Chang, B. H. Chen, T. C. Chiang, J. Freidenfelds, and K. M. Rege.

“Autonomous Calibration Of a Wireless Global Positioning System,” application granted on 5/27/03, US Patent No. 6,570,529, with K. Budka, D. Calin and R. Richton.

“Likelihood-Based Geolocation Prediction Algorithms for CDMA Systems Using Pilot Strength Measurements,” application granted on 5/3/05, US Patent No. 6,889,053, with K. K. Chang, K. M. Rege and Y. T. Wang.

"Clock Offset Estimation With Bias Correction," application granted on 4/4/2006, US Patent No. 7,023,884, with M. Chuah and A. Sampath.

"Method of Estimating a Signal-To-Interference+Noise Ratio (SINR)", application granted on 2/27/07, US Patent No. 7,184,497, with A. Sampath.

"A Method of Estimating the Offset Between Clocks of Network Elements," application granted on 8/14/07, US Patent No. 7,257,133, with A. Sampath.

"Method, System and Computer Program Product for Improving System Reliability," application granted on 10/2/07, US Patent No. 7,278,048,, with J. C. Clark, O. H. Salvador, K. A. Sohraby and X. Zhang.

"Nonparametric Method for Determination of Anomalous Event States in Complex Systems Exhibiting Non-stationarity," filed 4/23/2007, with M. Marvasti.

“Method of Estimating a Signal-To-Interference+Noise Ratio (SINR) Using Data Samples”, filed 5/15/2001, with A. Sampath.

“Method and Apparatus for Dynamically Varying the Play-Out Delay in a Packet Network Demonstrating Correlated Packet Delays,” filed 3/23/00, with W. Matragi (response to office action in progress)

Bell Laboratories Symposia

“Designs for High Availability of All Optical Networks,” Lucent Technologies Optical Network Research Division Conference (Murray Hill, NJ) June 24, 2003

“Network Level Protection Schemes and their Availability Algorithms,” Lucent Technologies Supply Chain Network Division Training Seminar (Holmdel, NJ) June 24,2003

Jeske, D. R. and Zhang, X. (2000). Estimating the Failure Rate of Software (Tutorial), Bell Laboratories Software Symposium (Merrimack Valley, MA)

Jeske, D. R., Qureshi, M. A. and Muldoon, E. (2000). A Bayesian Methodology for Estimating the Failure Rate of Software, Bell Laboratories Software Symposium (Naperville, IL)

Jeske, D. R. and Rathunde, D. F. (1999). Reliability of the Flexent Wireless Network Architecture, Bell Laboratories Reliability Information Forum (Columbus, OH)

Jeske, D. R., Lipper, E. H. and Rathunde, D. F. (1998). Evaluating the Impact of Plan R Reliability Features, Bell Laboratories Reliability Information Forum (Naperville, IL)

Jeske, D. R. (1998). Approaches for Estimating Software Reliability, Bell Labs Software Development Research Department Seminar Series (Murray Hill, NJ)

Jeske, D. R. and Tarapore, P. (1993). Improving the Sensitivity of Blocking Approximations with Actual Traffic Loads, Bell Laboratories Reliability Information Forum (Murray Hill, NJ)

Jeske, D. R. (1993) Performance and Reliability of AT&T Network Services, Invited Speaker for AT&T Network Services Course (Holmdel, NJ)

Jeske, D. R. (1992) Performance and Reliability of AT&T Network Services, Invited Speaker for AT&T Network Services Course (Holmdel, NJ)

Jeske, D. R. and Shoemaker, A. (1992). Measuring the Reliability of Switched Services, Bell Laboratories Reliability Information Forum (Holmdel, NJ)

Jeske, D. R. (1990), Predicting Customer Perceived Performance in the AT&T Digital Network AT&T Joint Symposium on Performance Analysis and Teletraffic Research (Holmdel, NJ)

Tuitorials

An Introduction to Software Reliability Modeling, delivered at The Reliability, Availability, Maintainability Symposium (RAMS) (Las Vegas, NV) January 28, 2008.

External Invited Talks

"Using the Empirical Probability Integral Transformation to Construct a Nonparametric CUSUM Algorithm," ASA Quality and Productivity Research Conference (Yorktown Heights, NY) June 4, 2009

"Statistical Aspects of Clock Synchronization Algorithms," Department of Mathematics, University of California, at San Diego (San Diego, CA), May 7, 2009.

"Teaching Consulting and Collaboration Skills in an Academic Environment," Annual Conference of the American Statistical Association (Denver, CO) August 4, 2008.

"Statistics: A Discipline with Applications to Every Day Life," Annual Conference of the American Statistical Association (K-12 Teacher's Meeting within a Meeting) (Denver, CO)

"Alternative Confidence Intervals for the Offset Between Two Network Clocks," International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (Prague, Czech) July 2, 2008.

"The Statistical Consulting Collaboratory at UC-Riverside: Mission and Methods," Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State University at Long Beach (Long Beach, CA) June 11, 2008.

"Alternative Confidence Intervals for the Offset Between Two Network Clocks," ASA Quality and Productivity Research Conference (Madison, WI) June 5, 2008.

"An Introduction to Software Reliability Modeling," U.S. Navy Operations Research Division (Washington, D.C.) December 18, 2007.

"Mean Squared Error and Robustness Properties of Alternative Clock Offset Estimators," International Society for Business and Industrial Statistics (Azores, Portugal) August 19, 2007.

"Statistics: A Discipline with Applications to Every Day Life," Annual Conference of the American Statistical Association (Middle School Teacher's Meeting within a Meeting) (Salt Lake City, UT) July 30, 2007.

"Building an Academic Statistical Consulting Unit: The Experience at UC-Riverside," Department of Statistics at University of Georgia (Athens, GA) June 13, 2007.

"Statistical Methods in Network Surveillance Models (Panel Discussant)," Downtime Zero One-Day Conference Sponsored by Integrien Corporation (New York, NY) March 20, 2007.

"An Overview of the Statistical Consulting Collaboratory at UC-Riverside," Annual Conference of the American Statistical Association (Seattle, WA) August 7, 2006.

"Jackknife Bias Correction of a Clock Offset Estimator," International Conference on Mathematical and Statistical Modeling in Honor of Enrique Castillo Ciudad Real, Spain), June 26-29, 2006.

"Semi-Supervised Text Classification: Partial Training from Unlabeled Data," Annual Conference of the Institute of Industrial Engineering (Orlando, FL) May 21-23, 2006.

"Generation of Synthetic Data Sets for Evaluating the Accuracy of Information Discovery and Analysis Systems," Department of Mathematics and Statistics, California State University at Long Beach (Long Beach, CA) April 28, 2006.

"Workshop on Hardware and Software Reliability Modeling with Markov Models," Optical Networking Group at Lucent Technologies (Nuremburg, Germany) September 14-16, 2005.

“The Transition from ‘Service’ to ‘Collaboration’ in a Consulting Environment,” Annual Conference of the American Statistical Association (Minneapolis, MN) August 11, 2005.

“Alternative Approaches to Computing Tolerance Intervals from Sensitivity Experiments,” Statistics Research Group at Los Alamos National Laboratories (Los Alamos, NM) July 26, 2005.

“The Transition from ‘Service’ to “Collaboration’ in a Consulting Environment,” Department of Statistics, University of California at Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA) May 7, 2005.

"Software-Based Instruction Tools That Demonstrate The Usefulness of Statistics To High School Students and College Freshmen: Concept and Prototype," Southern California Chapter of the American Statistical Association Fall Kick-Off Meeting (Claremont, CA) November 6, 2004.

“Mining and Tracking Useful Features in Massive Text Data with Applications to Risk Management,” INFORMS Annual Meeting (Denver, CO) October 24, 2004.

“Estimation of Clock Offset Using Bootstrap Bias-Correction Techniques,” The 10^th Annual Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology (Gaithersburg, MD) May 20, 2004

“Tunable Approximations for the Mean and Variance of the Maximum of Heterogeneous Geometrically Distributed Random Variables,” Qualcomm, Inc. (San Diego, CA) May 18, 2004

“Estimation of Clock Offset Using Bootstrap Bias-Correction Techniques,” Department of Mathematics and Statistics, San Diego State University (San Diego, CA) April 30, 2004

“Good Reasons to Consider a Graduate Degree in Statistics,” Department of Mathematics, California State University at Long Beach (Long Beach, CA) March 23, 2004

“Mining Massive Report Data and Developing Tracking Statistics,” (joint with R. Y. Liu, Rutgers University) Annual Conference of The American Statistical Association (Toronto, Canada) August 9, 2004

“Statistical Modeling in the Bell Labs Environment,” Department of Mathematics, Claremont McKenna College, (Claremont, CA) February 17, 2004

“The Statistical Consulting Collaboratory at UC-Riverside,” The Fifth Annual Southern California Chapter of the American Statistical Association’s Workshop Emphasizing Education (Claremont, CA) November 15, 2003

“Useful Software Reliability Modeling Practices in Industry Environments,” Army Conference on Applied Statistics (Napa Valley, CA) October 29-31, 2003

“Some Successful Approaches to Software Reliability Modeling in Industry,” ASA Quality and Productivity Research Conference, (Yorktown Heights, NY) May 21, 2003

“An Overview of Geolocation Algorithms,” Fort Monmouth Research and Development Engineering Center, (Ft. Monmouth, NJ) January 15, 2003

“Statistical Characterization of Aviation Risk Factors,” 2^nd Annual FAA Centers of Excellence Symposium (Wichita, KS) October 21, 2002

“Node-Pair Reliability Calculations in a Shared Mesh Network,” VPI Systems, Incorporated (Holmdel, NJ) February 25, 2002

“Estimation of Clock Offset Using Bootstrap Bias-Correction Techniques,” Department of Mathematics, Trenton College (Trenton, NJ) October 3, 2001

“A Career in Statistics,” Mathematics Club, Trenton College (Trenton, NJ) October 3, 2001

“Reliability Calculations in Large Communication Networks,” Department of Mathematics, Williams College, (Williamstown, MA) September 19, 2001

“Analysis of Signal-to-Noise Ratio Estimation for Wireless Communication Systems: Methods and Analysis,” IBM Watson Research Center (Yorktown Heights, NY) August 20, 2001

“Bayesian Prediction of Software Failure Rate,” Department of Statistics, Rutgers University, (Piscataway, NJ) October 13, 1999

“Bayesian Prediction of Software Failure Rate,” Department of Industrial Engineering, Rutgers University, (Piscataway, NJ) September 28, 1999

“Performance Analysis of Switch Access Systems,” Applied Telecommunication Symposium, (Boston, MA), April 5, 1998.

“Statistical Characterization of Environmental Risk,” U.S. Geological Survey Station, (Reston, VA), August 12, 1994.

“A Model for Circuit Unavailability,” Northern New Jersey Chapter of the American Statistical Association (Holmdel NJ), December 8, 1993

“Network Component and T1/T3 Unavailability Models, National Institute of Standards and Technology, October 17, 1990

June 5, 2009: "Estimation and Confidence Intervals for Relative Offset Under Correlated Exponential Network Delays," (joint with J. Pettyjohn, presented by J. Pettyjohn), ASA Quality and Productivity Research Conference (Yorktown Heights, NY)

"Bartlett and Wald Sequential Hypothesis Testing with Correlated Data," (joint with J. Li, presented by J. Li), ASA Quality and Productivity Research Conference (Yorktown Heights, NY), June 5, 2009

"Performance Analysis of Alternative Combinations of Classification and Clustering Algorithms with Applications to Microbial Community Profiling," (joint with R. Lee, presented by R. Lee), ASA Quality and Productivity Research Conference (Yorktown Heights, NY), June 4, 2009

"Evaluation of a Hospice Care Referral Program Using Cox Proportional Hazards Model," (joint with L. Gharibvand and S. Liao, presented by L. Ghariband), Western Users of SAS Software Conference (Universal City, CA), November 5, 2008

"A Nonparametric Cusum Algorithm for Timeslot Sequences with Applications to Network Surveillance," (joint with V. Montes de Oca, presented by V. Montes de Oca), International Society for Statistics in Business and Industry (Prague, Czech Republic) July 1, 2008.

"Improving the Applications of Sequential Sampling methods to Entomological Problems and Other Areas," (joint with P. Shah, presented by P. Shah), ASA Quality and (Madison, WI) June 5, 2008.

"The Efficiency of Logistic Regression Compared to Normal Discriminant Analysis Under Class-Conditional Classification Noise," (joint with Y. Bi, presented by Y. Bi), ASA Quality and Productivity Research Conference (Madison, WI) June 5, 2008.

"A Three-Class Neutral Zone Classifier Using a Decision-Theoretic Approach With Applications," (joint with H. Yu, presented by H. Yu), ASA Quality and Productivity Research Conference (Madison, WI) June 5, 2008.

"A Nonparametric Cusum Algorithm for Timeslot Sequences with Applications to Network Surveillance," (joint with V. Montes de Oca, presented by V. Montes de Oca), ASA Quality and Productivity Research Conference (Madison, WI) June 6, 2008.

"Advanced Sequential Sampling Methods and Their Implementation Within Portable Computing Environments," (joint with A. Chakravartty, presented by A. Chakravartty), Annual Conference of the American Statistical Association (Seattle, WA) August 10, 2006.

"The Effectiveness of Bootstrap Bias Correction With Heavy Tailed Distributions," Colloquium for Department of Economics, University of California (Riverside, CA) June 7, 2006.

"Development of a Synthetic Data Set Generator for Building and Testing Information Discovery Systems," (presented by P. J. Lin), 3rd International Conference on Information Technology (Las Vegas, NV) April 11, 2006.

"Classification Rules that Include Neutral Zones and their Application to Microbrial Community Profiling," (joint with Z. Liu, E. Bent and J. Borneman) 5th Hawaii International Conference on Statistics, Mathematics and Related Fields (Honolulu, Hawaii) January 19, 2006.

“Some New Clock Offset Estimators Using Bootstrap Bias-Correction Techniques,” Colloquium for Department of Computer Science, University of California (Riverside, CA) June 6, 2005

“Effectiveness of Bootstrap Bias-Correction in the Context of Clock Offset Estimation,” (joint with A. Chakravartty, UC-Riverside) 12^th Annual Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology (Park City, Utah) June 2, 2005

“A Test for the Compatibility of Two Software Usage Environments,” (joint with Q. Zhang, UC-Riverside) Annual Conference of the American Statistical Association (Toronto, Canada) August 8, 2004

“Tunable Approximations for the Mean and Variance of the Maximum of Heterogeneous Geometrically Distributed Random Variables,” (joint with T. Blessinger, FDA) Mathematical Methods in Reliability Conference (Santa Fe, NM) June 23, 2004. 

“The Statistical Consulting Collaboratory at UC-Riverside,” Riverside Chamber of Commerce Meeting (Riverside, CA) June 11 2004.

“Testing the Equality of LD50 Values in Heterogeneous Bioassay Models,” (joint with T. Blessinger, FDA, P. Jensen and J. Trumble, UC-Riverside), San Diego Chapter of the American Statistical Association One-Day Conference (San Diego, CA) February 27, 2004

“Statistical Consulting and its Relation to Applied Research,” Department of Statistics, University of California at Riverside (Riverside, CA) January 27, 2004

• The Frank Wilcoxon Prize, for The Best Practical Application Paper in Technometrics, 2003.

• Bell Labs President’s Award, for contributions to the reliable design of 3^rd generation wireless networks, 2002

• Lucent Technologies Software Symposium Award, for an outstanding talk and valued planning contributions, 2000

• Lucent Wireless Technologies Certificate of Appreciation, for advancing the reliability of wireless systems, 1999

• ISSRE Conference Best Paper Award, 1997

• AT&T Salute Award, for dedication to customers, high standards of integrity and teamwork, 1995

• Bell Laboratories Appointment to Distinguished Member of Technical Staff, 1992

• SUGI Conference Paper Honorable Mention, 1991

• Bell Laboratories Quality in Systems Engineering Award, for contributions to a PQMI quality team, 1991

• Iowa State University Doctoral Research Award, 1985

• George Snedecor Award, for outstanding Ph.D. Candidate at Iowa State University, 1985

• Mathematics Award, for most outstanding graduating mathematics student at Austin Peay State University, 1980