Chris Gotwalt

JMP Director of Statistical Research and Development


Chris Gotwalt is the Director of Statistical Research and Development at JMP, a business division of SAS, and leads the statistical software development and testing teams. Since joining SAS as a software developer in 2003, Gotwalt has made numerous contributions to JMP, mostly in the area of numerical algorithms and in the creation of new statistical techniques. He developed many of the numerical algorithms that underlie the analytical tools within JMP, including those for linear mixed models, linear and nonlinear optimal designed experiments, neural networks, and reliability modeling.