J. Stuart Hunter, Ph. D.
Professor Emeritus, Princeton University
J. Stuart Hunter, Ph. D., is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University's School of Engineering and Applied Science. He served as staff statistician for American Cyanamid Co. and as a member of the Mathematics Research Center at the University of Wisconsin before joining Princeton.
Over the years, Dr. Hunter has published numerous books, papers, and technical reports. He co-authored Statistics for Experimenters with George E.P. Box and W.G. Hunter and is the author of the textbooks Design of Experiments and Statistics for Problem Solving and Decision Making. His major areas of concentration include industrial applications of statistics, the fractional factorial, and response surface experimental design.
Dr. Hunter is the founding editor of Technometrics, the quarterly journal co-published by ASQ and the American Statistical Association. He served as president of the American Statistical Association in 1993.
Among the many honors received by Dr. Hunter were ASQ's Brumbaugh Award in 1959 and 1985 and Shewhart Medal in 1970. He also received the Ellis Ott Award in 1978 and the Metropolitan Section's Deming Medal in 1986. In addition, he is a recipient of the U.S. Army's S.S. Wilks Medal. The Environometrics Society established the J. Stuart Hunter Annual Lecture in his honor.
Dr. Hunter received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from North Carolina State University, a master's degree in engineering mathematics and a doctorate in experimental statistics from the same institution.
