Louis A. Cox - President of Cox Associates
Cox Associates is a Denver-based consulting business providing
applied research and consulting in health, safety, and environmental risk
analysis. Since 1986, Dr. Cox has consulted in health-related risk assessment,
risk management, and risk communication for regulatory agencies, engineering
firms, petroleum and chemical companies, and industry associations. Recent
research includes biologically-based computer simulation modeling of chemically
induced occupational health effects, design and analysis of a long-term
cancer bioassay experiment for isoprene, computer modeling of hazards and
consequences at chemical and petroleum tank farms, reviews of occupational
and public safety analyses for nuclear waste handling facilities, microeconomic
analysis of captive insurance companies, and critical review of transportation
risks associated with LPG movement in a Canadian river. Before starting
Cox Associates in 1986, Dr. Cox worked for six years for Arthur D. Little,
Inc., where he managed the Applied Decision Sciences practice area in the
Operations Research section. He holds a Ph.D. in Risk Analysis from M.I.T.'s
Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science (1986), and an
S.M. in Operations Research, also from M.I.T. (1985). In addition, he holds
an A.B. (1978) and has several years of graduate training in mathematical
economics and statistics from Harvard University. He has lectured and taught
graduate courses in Decision and Risk Analysis, Social Decision and Risk
Management, and Applied Statistics at the University of Colorado at Boulder,
the Harvard University Extension School, and the Denver University Graduate
School of Business, respectively, and has served on the Advisory Board
of the Mathematics Department at the University of Colorado at Denver since
1987. He is a reviewer for the National Science Foundation's Decision,
Risk, and Management Science program. Dr. Cox has lectured widely to academic,
industry, and professional audiences on current research topics in the
theory and applications of health and safety risk analysis, uncertainty
analysis, applied mathematics and computer modeling of health effects.
Dr. Cox has been active in the Society for Risk Analysis for the
past ten years and is on the editorial board of Risk Analysis: An International
Journal. He helped to found the New England and Rocky Mountain Chapters
of the SRA, serving as secretary of the former in 1985-1986 and as Counselor
for the latter in 1990-1991. He is a full member of the Operations Research
Society of America (ORSA), The American Statistical Association, and The
Institute of Management Science (TIMS). He was made a lifetime Fellow of
the Society for Risk Analysis in 1993. In addition to his hands-on experience
and professional activities in decision and risk analysis, operations research,
artificial intelligence, and uncertainty analysis, Dr. Cox has authored
and co-authored over 100 research and academic publications on various
methodological, statistical, and technical aspects of these fields in books
and journals such as Risk Analysis, Management Science, J. Hazardous
Materials, Nuclear Safety, European Journal of Operational Research, Annals
of Mathematics and Artificial Intelligence, Annals of Operations Research,
J. Applied Statistics, Toxics Law Reporter, J. Air Pollution Control Association,
J. Energy Engineering, Uncertainty in Artificial Intelligence, and
the Handbook of Genetic Algorithms. He is coauthor of a widely cited
book on chronic delinquency and is coeditor of the SRA proceedings volume
New Risks: Issues and Management. His current reseach interests
center on reconciling statistical risk models with more complex causal
models of carcinogenesis, and on optimal statistical decision-making in
adaptively diagnosing and repairing complex reliability systems.
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