Sergio G. Koreisha



Prior to his appointment to the Knight Chair Sergio Koreisha was the Charles H. Lundquist Research Scholar and Professor of Decision Sciences in the Lundquist College of Business at the University of Oregon. Professor Koreisha has been at the University of Oregon since 1980 where currently he is the head of the Decision Sciences Department at the Lundquist College of Business. He received his undergraduate and masters degrees in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California, Berkeley and his doctoral degree from Harvard University in Business Administration.

Professor Koreisha specializes in the areas of forecasting, mathematical model building, applied econometrics, production analysis, and manufacturing strategy. Some of his latest works include articles on estimation and forecasting of regression models with misspecified serial correlation; new fast estimation methods for large-scale, multiple-time series models; new approaches for identifying the mathematical structures governing the behavior of economic time series; and how causality among economic and business variables might be ascertained and used to formulate more accurate models. His articles have appeared in numerous journals including: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: B, Biometrika; Journal of Time Series Analysis; Journal of Business and Economic Statistics; Decision Sciences; Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference; International Statistics Review; International Journal of Forecasting; Journal of Forecasting; Journal of Statistical Computation and Simulation; Communications in Statistics; and Journal of Finance. Professor Koreisha's research has been supported by the US Census Bureau, the Brazilian National Research Center, University of Tampere Foundation, and numerous sources from the Lundquist College of Business.

He has taught courses in Europe, South America, and the Pacific. He has received the outstanding Oregon MBA professor of the year award three times. He also provides consulting services for companies interested in doing business in Brazil.

Before obtaining his doctoral degree, he worked as an industrial engineer for Weyerhaeuser and as a planning and distribution analyst for Clorox. He has taught executive management programs and consulted for industry and the U.S. government.

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