Necip Doganaksoy

My Siena Experience

My Teaching Philosophy

My Favorite Courses to Teach

●GBUS 550 Quantitative Methods for Data-Based Decision-Making (Descriptive and Diagnostic)

● GBUS 610 Data Visualization and Predictive Analytics (Diagnostic and Predictive)

● GBUS 640 Data Mining and Predictive Analytics (Predictive)

My Professional Experience

Current Research

Topics:

·         Applied statistics in business and industry

·         Business analytics

·         Data science

·         Experimental design

·         Process and productivity improvement

·         Process data-mining

·         Product reliability assurance (design, manufacturing, field)

·         Quality engineering

·         Sampling for auditing
 

Application areas:

·         Appliances

·         Chemical and process industries

·         Energy and power

·         Litigation consulting and expert witness

·         Process scale-up

·         Product design

·         Renewables

·         Semiconductors

·         Technology development

·         Transportation

Articles & Book Reviews

• A Commentary on Specifying Prior Distributions in Reliability Applications
  Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
  June, 2023
• A Conversation with William Q. Meeker
  Quality Engineering, vol. 35
  June, 2023
• Product reliability: How Statistics Fits in
  Significance
  2023
• Information Rich: Modern Data Acquisition Capabilities Provide Improved Reliability Analyses
  Quality Progress, vol. 55
  December, 2022
• Change Point Detection and Issue Localization Based on Fleet-Wide Fault Data
  Journal Of Quality Technology, vol. 54
  September, 2022
• Sorting Out Options: Statistical Software for Product Reliability and Lifetime Data Analysis
  Quality Progress, vol. 55
  August, 2022
• A Simplified Formulation of Likelihood Ratio Confidence Intervals Using a Novel Property
  Technometrics, vol. 63
  February, 2021
• Concerns in Identifying a Suitable Distribution: Product lifetimes are typically not normally distributed
  Quality Progress, vol. 53
  December, 2020
• Reliability Disasters: Lessons Learned
  Quality Progress
  August, 2020
• Introducing Advanced Exploratory Data Analysis Tools in an MBA Program
  Global Journal of Business Pedagogy, vol. 3
  June, 2019
• A Mixture Model for Determination of Root Cause Frequency: Proposed solution to the open challenge
  Quality Engineering, vol. 31
  2019
• Statistical Intervals, not Statistical Significance
  Significance, vol. 16
  2019
• Assess Your Lifetime Model: A Graphical Distribution Fit Test for Product Life Data Analysis
  Quality Progress
  December, 2018
• Book Review: Statistical Intervals: A Guide for Practitioners and Researchers
  Interfaces
  2018
• Fallacies of Statistical Significance
  Quality Progress
  November, 2017
• Identify and Act: Performing Product Life Data Analysis with Unidentified Subpopulations
  Quality Progress
  2016
• Reliability Upsizing: How to Adjust for Size Effect in Product Life Data Analysis
  Quality Progress
  November, 2015
• An Application of the Linear Errors-in-Variables Model in Semiconductor Device Performance Assessment
  Quality Engineering, vol. 27
  October, 2015
• Leveraging Big Data for Proactive Product Servicing
  Six Sigma Forum Magazine
  2015
• Batch Variability in Accelerated-Degradation Testing
  Journal Of Quality Technology, vol. 46
  April, 2014
• Improving a Manufacturing Process Using Data-Based Methods
  Quality And Reliability Engineering: International, vol. 30
  April, 2014
• Timely Reliability Assessment Using Destructive Degradation Tests
  Quality Progress
  2014
• Gaining Physical Insights from Degradation Data
  Journal Of Quality Technology, vol. 45
  April, 2013
• Discussion of More Pitfalls of Accelerated Testing
  Journal Of Quality Technology
  2013
• Improved Life Analyses Using Degradation Testing
  Quality Progress
  2013
• Career Paths for the Applied Statistician
  Amstat News
  2012
• Statistics Research in Business and Industry: The GE Experience
  International Statistical Review
  2012
• Statistics in Business and Industry: The Path Forward
  Amstat News
  2012
• The Excitement of a Career in Statistics
  Amstat News
  2012
• Traits of a Successful Statistician
  Amstat News
  2012
• Using Bayesian Methods to Leverage Engineering Knowledge in Life Data Analysis
  Quality Progress
  2012
• Leveraging Engineering Knowledge in Life Data Analysis
  Quality Progress
  2011
• Statistics to Facilitate Innovation: A Panel Discussion
  Quality Engineering
  2011
• The Challenge to Long Term Improvement
  Six Sigma Forum Magazine
  2011
• By the Numbers
  Six Sigma Forum Magazine
  2010
• Efficient Gradient-Based Optimization of Process Capability with Multiple, Potentially Non-normal Outputs
  Communications In Statistics - Simulation And Computation
  2010
• Predicting Problems: Forecasting the Number of Future Field Failures
  Quality Progress
  2010
• Validating Product Reliability
  Chance
  2010
• A Conversation with Gerry Hahn
  Quality Engineering
  2009
• Discussion of Quality Management and Quality Practice: Perspectives on their History and their Future
  Applied Stochastic Models in Business and Industry
  2009
• Divide and Conquer in Reliability Analyses: Gain Understanding by Looking at Different Population Segments
  Quality Progress
  2009
• Numbers in Everyday Life: A Short Course for Adults
  Amstat News
  2009
• Data Mining: A Gateway to Better Data Gathering
  Statistical Analysis and Data Mining
  2008
• Proactive Product Servicing
  Quality Progress
  2008
• The Future of Industrial Statistics: A Panel Discussion
  Technometrics
  2008
• Reliability Assessment by Use-Rate Acceleration
  Quality Progress
  2007
• Adding to the Six Sigma Statistical Toolkit
  Six Sigma Forum Magazine
  2006
• Book Review Process Quality Control: Troubleshooting and Interpretation of Data
  Journal Of Quality Technology
  2006
• How to Analyze Reliability Data for Repairable Products
  Quality Progress
  2006
• Improving Reliability Through Warranty Data Analysis
  Quality Progress
  2006
• Book Review of Practical Reliability Engineering
  Quality And Reliability Engineering: International
  2005
• Planning Reliability Assessment
  Quality Progress
  2005
• What's Missing in Six Sigma?
  Six Sigma Forum Magazine
  2005
• Book Review Weibull Models
  Technometrics
  2004
• Planning Life Tests for Reliability Demonstration
  Quality Progress
  2004
• Book Review Recurrent Events Analysis for Product Repairs, Disease Recurrences, and Other Applications
  Journal Of Quality Technology
  2003
• Simultaneous Optimization of Mean and Standard Deviation in Response Surface Experimentation
  Journal Of Quality Technology
  2003
• Speedier Reliability Analysis
  Quality Progress
  2003
• Divide and Conquer: Reliability Analysis by Individual Failure Modes
  Quality Progress
  2002
• Book Review HALT, HASS and HASA Explained: Accelerated Reliability Techniques
  Technometrics
  2001
• Statistical Tools for Six Sigma
  Quality Progress
  2001
• Using Degradation Data for Product Reliability Analysis
  Quality Progress
  2001
• Assessment of Impact of Measurement Variability in the Presence of Multiple Sources of Product Variability
  Quality Engineering
  2000
• Discussion: Practical Aspects of Corrected Likelihood Ratio Confidence Intervals
  Technometrics
  2000
• Reliability (or Product Life) Data Analysis: A Case Study
  Quality Progress
  2000
• The Evolution of Six Sigma
  Quality Engineering
  2000
• Discussion of Statistics as a Catalyst to Learning by Scientific Method
  Journal Of Quality Technology
  1999
• Reliability Improvement: Issues and Tools
  Quality Progress
  1999
• Sample Size Considerations for Assessing the Equivalence of Two Process Means
  Quality Engineering
  1999
• Statistical Considerations in Microanalysis by Energy-dispersive Spectrometry
  Microscopy and Microanalysis
  1999
• A Method to Compare Two Samples of Recurrence Data
  Life Data Analysis
  1998
• Book Review Quality and Reliability of Technical Systems: Theory, Practice, Management
  Technometrics
  1998
• A Useful Property of Best Linear Unbiased Predictors with Applications to Life-testing
  American Statistician
  1997
• Discussion of New Pedagogy and New Content: The Case of Statistics
  International Statistical Review
  1997
• Process Monitoring with Multiple Products and Production Lines
  Quality Engineering
  1997
• Evaluating the Impact of Blending on Product Consistency
  Journal Of Quality Technology
  1996
• Process Monitoring with Multiple Product Grades
  Journal Of Quality Technology
  1996
• Book Review Handbook of Reliability Engineering
  Journal Of American Statistical Association
  1995
• Book Review How to Perform Skip-Lot and Chain Sampling
  Journal Of Quality Technology
  1995
• Determining the Duration of a Demonstration Life-test Before All Units Fail
  IEEE Transactions On Reliability
  1995
• Discussion of Shewhart-type Charts in Non-standard Situations
  Technometrics
  1995
• Moving from Every Lot Inspection to Audit Sampling
  Journal Of Quality Technology
  1994
• Comparisons of Approximate Confidence Intervals for Distributions Used in Life Data Analysis
  Technometrics
  1993
• Orthogonal Parameters with Censored Data
  Communications In Statistics, Theory, And Methods
  1993
• Algorithmic Statistical Process Control: Concepts and an Application
  Technometrics
  1992
• Discussion of Relationship Between Results of Partial Discharge Pulse Height Analysis and Subsequent Voltage Endurance of Stator Bars and Coils
  IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion
  1992
• Comparisons of Approximate Confidence Intervals for the Smallest Extreme Value Distribution Simple Linear Regression Model under Time Censoring
  Communications In Statistics - Simulation And Computation
  1991
• Identification of Out of Control Quality Characteristics in a Multivariate Manufacturing Environment
  Communications In Statistics, Theory, And Methods
  1991
• Interval Estimation from Censored and Masked System Failure Data
  IEEE Transactions On Reliability
  1991
• Getting Good Data Up Front: A Key Challenge
  Quality Engineering, vol. 24
  Oct-Dec, 2012
• Topics for the Accounting Information Systems Course: A Dual Perspective Approach from Educators and Employers
  Accounting Information Systems Educator's Journal, vol. 14
  Fall, 2019

Awards & Distinctions

•  A peer reviewed article that I have co-authored has been selected for inclusion in the 2020 volume of The Best Writing on Mathematics 2020 published by Princeton University Press. The original article titled "Statistical Intervals, not Statistical Significance" appeared in Significance.
  Category: Teaching-Research
  Princeton University Press, 2020
• SHEWHART MEDAL   The Shewhart Medal is ASQ's top technical career award and is given to a one individual each year who has demonstrated accomplishment in modern quality control through the development of its theory, principles, and techniques.   His citation reads: “For statistical leadership in advancing and advocating for proactive quality and reliability assurance through high-impact applications, research, publications for practitioners, training, and service to the profession.”
  Category: Research
  American Society for Quality, 2020
• DOUGLAS T. HICKEY CHAIR (School of Business)
  Category: Research
  Siena College, 2019
• RESEARCH EXCELLENCE AWARD (School of Business)
  Category: Research
  Siena College, 2019
• DOUGLAS T. HICKEY CHAIR (School of Business)
  Category: Research
  Siena College School of Business, 2018
• BRUMBAUGH AWARD     Founded in 1949, the Brumbaugh Award is presented for the paper, published in the preceding year, that the committee decides has made the largest single contribution to the development of industrial application of quality control.  2016 Brumbaugh Award presented to Necip Doganaksoy for co-authoring the paper, “An Application of the Linear Errors-in-Variables Model in Semiconductor Device Performance Assessment,” published in 2015 in Quality Engineering, Volume 27, Issue 4, pp. 500-511.   
  
  Category: Research
  American Society for Quality (ASQ), 2016
• ZIEGEL PRIZE    Technometrics Ziegel Prize for the best book reviewed by the journal in 2010 (The Role of Statistics in Business and Industry by Hahn and Doganaksoy). Technometrics is a journal of statistics for the physical, chemical and engineering sciences, published jointly by the American Society for Quality and the American Statistical Association. Criteria for the award include that the book brings together in one volume a body of material previously only available in scattered research articles and having the potential to significantly improve practice in engineering and science.
  
  Category: Teaching-Research
  American Satistical Association (ASA) and American Society for Quality (ASQ), 2011
• HUNTER AWARD    Recognized for practical use of statistical tools in non-traditional areas like IT, Human Resources and Finance. The Statistics Division of the American Society for Quality (ASQ) established the Hunter Award in 1987 in memory of the Division's founding chair to promote, encourage and acknowledge outstanding accomplishments during a career in the broad field of applied statistics. The attributes that characterize Bill Hunter's career - consultant, educator for practitioners, communicator, and integrator of statistical thinking into other disciplines - are used to help decide the recipient.
  
  Category: Teaching-Research-Service
  American Society for Quality, 2009
• FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY FOR QUALITY (ASQ)  Fellowship is the highest honorary membership grade of this 80,000 member association. Presently, only 650 members hold the Fellow status.
  
  Category: Teaching-Research-Service
  American Society for Quality (ASQ), 2008
• ELECTED MEMBER OF THE INTERNATIONAL STATISTICAL INSTITUTE  The ISI is composed of some 4,000 individual members who are the world’s leading statisticians. Membership is by election of the ISI Board only.
  
  Category: Teaching-Research-Service
  International Statistical Institute (ISI), 1997

• FELLOW OF THE AMERICAN STATISTICAL ASSOCIATION (ASA)   Citation: In recognition of his role as an outstanding industrial statistician, his many contributions to the statistical methodology of product life analysis and process control, and his service to the profession. Each year less than one-third of one percent of the total association membership are recognized as Fellows.

  
  Category: Teaching-Research-Service
  American Statistical Association (ASA), 1996

Books & Book Chapters

• Achieving Product Reliability: A Key to Business Success
  CRC press New York (part of Taylor and Francis)
  2021
• The Best Writing on Mathematics
  Prentice Hall
  2020
• Statistical Roundtables: Insights and Best Practices
  ASQ Press
  2016
• A Career in Statistics: Beyond the Numbers (Chinese translation)
  Xi'an Jiaotong University Press
  2011
• A Career in Statistics: Beyond the Numbers
  Wiley and Sons
  2011
• The Role of Statistics in Business and Industry
  Wiley and Sons
  2008
• Statistics: A Guide To The Unknown
  Duxbury Press
  2006
• Handbook of Statistics Volume: Advances in Reliability
  North Holland Publications
  2001
• Handbook of Statistics Volume: Advances in Reliability
  North Holland Publications
  2001
• The Quality Yearbook
  McGraw-Hill
  2001
• Juran's Quality Handbook
  McGraw-Hill
  1998
• Handbook of Reliability Engineering and Management
  McGraw-Hill
  1996
• Recent Advances in Life-Testing and Reliability
  CRC press New York (part of Taylor and Francis)
  1995
• Recent Advances in Life-Testing and Reliability
  CRC press New York (part of Taylor and Francis)
  1995

Presentations

• Achieving Product Reliability: How Statistics Fits In
  2022
  Union College 2022 Fall Term Mathematics Seminars, Schenectady, New York
• Change Point Detection and Issue Localization Based on Fleet-Wide Fault Data
  2022
  Quality and Productivity Research Conference, San Francisc, California
• Findings and Recommendations from the ASA Antiracism Task Force Subcommittee for Advancing Racial Justice in the Practice of Statistics
  2022
  Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington DC, District of Columbia
• Findings and Recommendations from the Advancing Racial Justice in the Practice of Statistics ASA Antiracism Task Force Subcommittee
  2022
  Joint Statistical Meetings, Washington DC, Washington
• How to use statistics to improve product reliability
  2021
  ASSEMBLY Webinar, Webinar, United States of America
• An Exploratory Data Analysis of Railroad Safety: A Pedagogical Approach
  November, 2019
  Decision Sciences Institute, New Orleans, Louisiana
• An Exploratory Analysis of Drug Rehabilitation Data and the Need for Evidence-Based Policy Reform
  2019
  UPSTAT 2019 Annual Conference of the Upstate Chapters of the American Statistical Association, Rochester, New York
• Introduction to Blockchain: Incorporating Emerging Technologies in the Classroom
  2019
  UPSTAT 2019 Annual Conference of the Upstate Chapters of the American Statistical Association, Rochester, New York
• Reliability Assurance and Data Analytics
  2019
  The Hickey Lecture Series, Loudonville, New York
• Change Point Detection and Issue Localization based on Fleet-wide Fault Data
  2018
  UP-STAT 2018 Better Living Through Statistics, The University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
• Exploratory Analysis of Data on Homelessness: Paving the Way for Data Analytics for Social Good
  2018
  UP-STAT 2018 Better Living Through Statistics, The University of Rochester, Rochester, New York
• MSA Concentration in Data and Analytics
  2018
  AAA Intensive Data and Analytics Summer Workshop, Orlando, Florida
• Using the Central Limit Theorem in Medicare/Medicaid Audits
  2018
  Invited presentation at Siena College Faculty Research Symposium, Siena College, New York
• Topics for the Accounting Information Systems Course: what do employers think is important?
  June, 2017
  Accounting Information Systems Educator Conference, Colorado Springs, Colorado
• Embedding Big Data and Analytics into your Courses and Curriculum
  2017
  AAA Northeast Region Meeting, Providence, Rhode Island
• Fault Data and Reliability Analysis
  2017
  34th Quality and Productivity Research Conference (ASA-ASQ), Storrs, Connecticut