Bradley Jones, PhD

Bradley Jones, PhD, is a Principal Research Fellow in the JMP division of SAS. He is the inventor of the Custom Designer, a general and powerful tool in JMP for generating optimal experimental designs. He holds a patent on the use of design of experiments (DOE) for minimizing registration errors in the manufacture of laminated circuit boards and is the inventor of the prediction profile plot for interactive exploration of multiple input and output response surfaces.

Before joining SAS in 1997, Jones was the principal statistician at The MathWorks Inc., where he designed and implemented the MATLAB Statistics Toolbox, a set of more than 200 statistical functions. He was Chief Scientist and a founding partner of Catalyst Inc., a company created to support the use of computer-aided DOE in industry. At Catalyst, he designed Catalyst DOE, the first interactive graphical tool for DOE.

Widely published on DOE in research journals and the trade press, Jones is the recipient of the prestigious 2009 Brumbaugh Award from the American Society for Quality (ASQ). His current interests are in design of experiments, computer-aided statistical pedagogy, and graphical user interface design. He holds a master’s degree in statistics from Florida State University and a PhD in applied economic sciences from the University of Antwerp, Belgium.