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Elwyn Berlekamp is a professor of mathematics at the University of California, Berkeley, he has held a variety of positions, including associate chairman of the Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences division. Berlekamp was also President of Cyclotomics (which became Kodak Berkeley Research) in the mid 80's and is currently a board member for several corporations. He earned his Ph.D from M.I.T, where he presently sits on the Mathematics Department's academic review board; he serves in a similar capacity for Princeton.
David Donoho is Xamplify's chief consultant on statistics. A professor of statistics at Stanford, he is a winner of a MacArthur "genius" fellowship. Donoho has done pioneering work in statistical theory and "robust statistics" and has applied these to a broad range of practical applications. He has devised strategies for detecting errors in a database containing many dissimilar types of data. Donoho holds a B.S. from Princeton and a Ph.D. from Harvard.
Alan Stein is a venture partner for Western Presidio Capital. He has been a General Partner as Goldman Sachs and Executive Director and Senior Managing Director at Montgomery Securities. He has also served as the Secretary of Business Transportation and Housing Agency for the state of California, and as Associate Dean for Executive Education at the University of California, Berkeley, at the Haas School of Business. Stein is a graduate of Columbia College and received his MBA from Harvard.
Niels Waller is Xamplify's chief consultant on psychology. He is Professor and chair of Quantitative Psychology at Vanderbilt. His main interest is the development and application of quantitative models of individual differences. His primary areas of expertise are item response theory, taxometric methods, factor analysis, and computerized adaptive testing. Among numerous other awards, Dr. Waller received the 1998/1999 American Psychological Association Distinguished Scientific Award for Early Career Contribution to Psychology. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Minnesota.