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Siddhartha Dalal

Santa Monica Office

Senior Advisor to the RAND President for Technology

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Education

Ph.D. in statistics, University of Rochester; M.B.A. in marketing, University of Rochester; B.S. in mathematical statistics, University of Bombay

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Research Focus

Information analytics; image processing; software/hardware engineering; scalable architectures

Selected Publications

Siddhartha R. Dalal and Colin L. Mallows, "Factor-Covering Designs for Testing Software", Technometrics, 40(3), 1998

David M. Cohen et al., "The Combinatorial Design Approach to Automatic Test Generation", IEEE Software, 13(5), 1996

Siddhartha R. Dalal et al., "Risk Analysis of the Space Shuttle: Pre-Challenger Prediction of Failure", Journal of the American Statistical Association, 84(408), 1989

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Research Focus

Information analytics, image processing, software/hardware engineering, scalable architectures

Recent Projects

The Information Analytics and Policy Automation initiative
Synthesizing automated learning and mining technologies and social interaction models to improve the policy analysis framework

Previous Positions

Vice President of Research, Xerox Corporation; Chief Scientist and Executive Director, Bellcore/SAIC/Telcordia Technologies

Selected Publications

"Methods and Systems for Monitoring Quality Assurance," Siddhartha Dalal et al., US Patent 6754847, 2004

"Factor-Covering Designs for Testing Software," Siddhartha R. Dalal and Colin L. Mallows, Technometrics, Vol. 40, No. 3, 1998

"The Combinatorial Design Approach to Automatic Test Generation," David M. Cohen et al., IEEE Software, Vol. 13, No. 5, 1996

"Risk Analysis of the Space Shuttle: Pre-Challenger Prediction of Failure," Siddhartha R. Dalal et al., Journal of the American Statistical Association, Vol. 84, No. 408, 1989