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McCombs School of Business
Information, Risk, & Operations Management
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station, B6500
Austin, TX 78712-0212
http://www.mccombs.utexas.edu/faculty/jonathan.koehler/
Phone: 512-471-7856
Fax: 512-471-0587
Email: koehler@mail.utexas.edu


Positions Education Teaching Awards
Research Awards Research Grants Research in Progress
  Publications Invited Presentations
Conference Presentations (competititve) Invited Presentations (On UT campus) Teaching Experience
Professional Affiliations Expert Witness / Consulting University Service


POSITIONS

University Distinguished Professor, McCombs School of Business, The University of Texas at Austin, 2004-present.

University Distinguished Associate Professor, McCombs School of Business and School of Law, The University of Texas at Austin, 1998-2004.

Visiting Scholar, Harvard University, Dept. of Psychology, Social Cognition and Emotion Laboratory (summer, 2000; fall, 1998).

Associate Professor, Graduate School of Business, UT Austin, 1996-8.

Visiting Scholar, Stanford Law School & Psychology Dept., summers 1991-1997.

Assistant Professor, Graduate School of Business, UT Austin, 1990-6.

EDUCATION

Postdoctoral Scholar, Stanford University, Dept. of Psychology & School of Law, 1988-90.

Ph.D., University of Chicago, Behavioral Sciences, Committee on Research Methodology and Quantitative Psychology, 1989.

M.A., University of Chicago, Behavioral Sciences, 1985.

B.A., Pomona College, Philosophy, 1982.

TEACHING AWARDS

Academy of Distinguished Teachers, UT Austin, 1998-present.

Winner, Outstanding Business Honors Program Professor, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin, 2002-3.

Winner, Outstanding Business Honors Program Professor, McCombs School of Business, UT Austin, 2000-1.

Texas Blazers Faculty Excellence Award, 1999-2000.

Winner, Outstanding Business Honors Program Professor, College of Business Administration, UT Austin, 1997-8.

Winner, Outstanding Business Honors Program Professor, College of Business Administration, UT Austin, 1995-6.

College of Business Administration Foundation Teaching Award for Assistant Professors, UT Austin, 1991-2.

RESEARCH AWARDS

Faculty Academic Development Research Committee (FADRC) Summer Grant, UT Austin, 1998-present.

Dean’s Fellow, McCombs School of Business, 2001-2.

Faculty Research Assignment, UT Austin, 1998-9.

College of Business Administration Foundation Research Excellence Award for Assistant Professors, UT Austin, 1995-6.

Loevinger Prize: Best article in Jurimetrics Journal ["Error and exaggeration in the presentation of DNA evidence"], 1993-4.

William Rainey Harper Fellow Dissertation Award, University of Chicago, 1988-9.

L. L. Thurstone Fellow in Quantitative Psychology, Department of Behavioral Sciences, University of Chicago, 1983-6.

RESEARCH GRANTS

National Science Foundation, Decision, Risk and Management Science Program, "Understanding how people use highly diagnostic statistical evidence," Principal Investigator, SBR 9819305, 1999-2003.

National Science Foundation, Decision, Risk and Management Science Program, "Empirical investigation of a risk-value theory for decision making and risk judgment" SBR 9819354, Faculty Associate (with J. Dyer (PI), J. Butler, & J. Jia), 1999-2001.

National Science Foundation, Decision, Risk and Management Science Program, "Statistical evidence and error in the courtroom," Principal Investigator, #SES-9209544, 1992-4.

National Science Foundation, Decision, Risk and Management Science Program, "Judgments of evidence quality among scientists," Dissertation Improvement Grant, #SES-8710191, 1987-9.

University Research Institute, UT Austin, Summer Research Award, 1995.

University Research Institute, UT Austin, Summer Research Award, 1992.

University Research Institute, UT Austin, Special Research Grant, 1998-9.

University Research Institute, UT Austin, Special Research Grant, 1995-6.

University Research Institute, UT Austin, Special Research Grant, 1994-5.

University Research Institute, UT Austin, Special Research Grant, 1993-4.

University Research Institute, UT Austin, Special Research Grant, 1990-1.

RESEARCH UNDER REVIEW OR IN PROGRESS

  1. Why do people invest in IPOs? A test of information and utility-based explanations (w/ M. Mercer)
  2. Selection effects in mutual fund advertisements (w/ M. Mercer)
  3. The psychology of rates (w/ J. Gourville)
  4. Betrayal aversion: The role of need for certainty (w/ A. Gershoff)
  5. The loss of chance doctrine: Probabilistic causality and compensation for injury
  6. Reverse hindsight
  7. Statistical models of jury decision making

PUBLICATIONS (in press)

Koehler, J. J. (in preparation).  Communicating evidence in court.  In A. Jamieson & A. Moenssens (Eds.).  Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science.  Chichester, UK: Wiley.   

Koehler, J. J. (in press).  Experts who don't know they don't know.  Interfaces.

Saks, M. J. & Koehler, J. J. (in press).  Out to lunch: Saks and Koehler reply to Rudin and Inman's commentary.  The California Association of Criminalists News.

PUBLICATIONS

Koehler, J. J. & Thompson, W. C. (2006). Mock jurors' reactions to selective presentation of evidence from multiple-opportunity searches. Law and Human Behavior, 30, 455-468. 

Saks, M. J. & Koehler, J. J. (2006).  Questions about forensic science: ResponseScience, 311, 607-610. COMPLETE PAPER  

Saks, M. J. & Koehler, J. J. (2006). Comments on Bruce Budowle's presentation at the Sackler Colloquium on Forensic Science. Digital Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Sackler Colloquium)

Koehler, J. J. (2006). Train our jurors. In G. Gigerenzer & C. Engel (Eds.). Heuristics  and the Law. Dahlem Workshop Report 94. Cambridge, MA. The MIT Press.

Piperides, C., Allen, R. J., Dhami, M. K., Flessner, A., Hastie, R., Koehler, J. J., Lempert, R., Schulz, J., & Wagner, G. (2006). What is the role of heuristics in litigation. In G. Gigerenzer & C. Engel (Eds.). Heuristics and the Law. Dahlem Workshop Report 94. Cambridge, MA. The MIT Press.

Saks, M. J. & Koehler, J. J. (2005).  The coming paradigm shift in forensic identification scienceScience, 309, 892-895.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. & Gershoff, A. D. (2005).  Betrayal aversion is reasonableBehavioral and Brain Sciences, 28, 556-7.  COMPLETE PAPER

Dutta, R. & Koehler, J. J. (2005).  Pay now or later?  The impact of temporal separation of payment and consumption on consumer product preferences.  In K. Tomak (Ed.).  Advances in the Economics of Information Systems.  Idea Group Publishing.

Koehler, J. J. & Macchi, L. (2004).  Thinking about low-probability events: An exemplar cuing theoryPsychological Science, 15, 540-546.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. (2004). Which chance was lost? The psychology of damage awards under the loss of chance doctrine. In I. Brocas & J. D. Carrillo (Eds.). The Psychology of Economic Decisions.  Vol. 2: Reasons and Choices. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  COMPLETE PAPER

Kaye, D. H. & Koehler, J. J. (2003). The misquantification of probative value. Law and Human Behavior, 27, 645-659.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. & Gershoff, A. D. (2003). Betrayal aversion: When agents of protection become agents of harm. Organizational Behavioral and Human Decision Processes, 90, 244-261.  COMPLETE PAPER

Prentice, R. A. & Koehler, J. J. (2003). A normality bias in legal decision making. Cornell Law Review, 88, 583-650.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. & Conley, C. A. (2003). The "hot hand" myth in professional basketball. Journal of Sport and Exercise Psychology, 25, 253-259.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. (2003).  Life Sciences, Technology and the Law Symposium Transcript.  Appears in: Michigan Telecommunications and Technology Law Review, 10, 175-284 (Koehler paper @ 197-203).   

Koehler, J. J. (2002). When do courts think base rate statistics are relevant? Jurimetrics Journal, 42, 373-402.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. (2002). Assume a can opener: Richard Posner’s perspective on Election 2000. Law, Probability, and Risk, 1, 75-82.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. (2001). When are people persuaded By DNA match statistics? Law and Human Behavior, 25, 493-513.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. (2001). The psychology of numbers in the courtroom: How to make DNA match statistics seem impressive or insufficient. Southern California Law Review, 74, 1275-1306.  COMPLETE PAPER

Lyon, T. D. & Koehler, J. J. (1998). Where researchers fear to tread: Interpretive differences among testifying experts in child sexual abuse cases. In S. Ceci & H. Hembrooke (Eds.). What Can (And Should) an Expert Tell The Court. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Association.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. (1997). Why DNA likelihood ratios should account for error (even when a National Research Council report says they should not). Jurimetrics Journal, 37, 425-437. COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. (1997). One in millions, billions and trillions: Lessons from People v. Collins (1968) for People v. Simpson (1995). Journal of Legal Education, 47, 214-223.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. (1997). A farewell to normative null hypothesis testing in base rate research. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 20, 780-783.

Koehler, J. J. (1996). Issues for the next generation of base rate research. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 41-53.

Koehler, J. J. (1996). The base rate fallacy reconsidered: Normative, descriptive and methodological challenges. Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 19, 1-53.  COMPLETE PAPER

Lyon, T. D. & Koehler, J. J. (1996). The relevance ratio: Evaluating the probative value of expert testimony in child sexual abuse cases. Cornell Law Review, 82, 43-78.

Koehler, J. J. (1996). On conveying the probative value of DNA evidence: Frequencies, likelihood ratios and error rates. University of Colorado Law Review, 67, 859-886. COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J., Chia, A. & Lindsey, J. S. (1995). The random match probability (RMP) in DNA evidence: Irrelevant and prejudicial? Jurimetrics Journal. 35, 201-219.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. (1995). Discussion: Inference in forensic identification. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A, 158, 47.

Koehler, J. J. (1995). Decision theory for a general audience. Contemporary Psychology, 40, 315-316.

Koehler, J. J., Gibbs, B. J. & Hogarth, R. M. (1994). Shattering the illusion of control: Multi-shot versus single-shot gambles. Journal of Behavioral Decision Making. 7, 183-191.

Koehler, J. J. (1994). Fallacy under fire--Round 2: A response to Fletcher, Funder, and Macchi. Psycoloquy. 5(21) base-rate.13.koehler.

Koehler, J. J. (1994). Base rates and the "illusion illusion": A response to Ayton, Gregson, Hamm, Koonce, McCauley, McKenzie & Spellman. Psycoloquy. 5(9) base-rate.9.koehler.

Koehler, J. J. (1993). The base rate fallacy myth. Psycoloquy. 4(49) base-rate.1.koehler.

Koehler, J. J. (1993). The normative status of base rates at trial. In Castellan, N. J. (Ed.). Individual and Group Decision Making (pp. 137-149). Hillsdale, NJ: Erlbaum.

Koehler, J. J. (1993). The influence of prior beliefs on scientific judgments of evidence quality. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes. 56, 28-55.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. (1993). Error and exaggeration in the presentation of DNA evidence. Jurimetrics Journal. 34, 21-39.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. (1993). DNA matches and statistics: Important questions, surprising answers. Judicature. 76, 222-229.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. (1993). The facts about DNA typing: Professor Koehler responds. Judicature, 77, 55-57.

Koehler, J. J. (1993). Error and exaggeration in the presentation of DNA evidence. Proceedings of the Second International Conference on Forensic Statistics, A17-A35.

Koehler, J. J. (1992). Probabilities in the courtroom: An evaluation of the objections and policies. In Kagehiro, D. K., & Laufer, W. S. (Eds.). Handbook of Psychology and Law (pp. 167-184). NY: Springer-Verlag.

Kaye, D. H. & Koehler, J. J. (1991). Can jurors understand probabilistic evidence? Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, 154, part 1, 75-81.  COMPLETE PAPER

Koehler, J. J. (1991). The probity-policy distinction in the statistical evidence debate. Tulane Law Review. 66, 141-150.

Saks, M. J. & Koehler, J. J. (1991). What DNA "fingerprinting" can teach the law about the rest of forensic science. Cardozo Law Review. 13, 361-372.

Koehler, J. J. & Shaviro, D. N. (1990). Veridical verdicts: Increasing verdict accuracy through the use of overtly probabilistic evidence and methods. Cornell Law Review. 75, 247-279.

Koehler, J. J. (1990). Judgments of evidence quality among scientists as a function of prior beliefs and commitments. Dissertation Abstracts International, 50, 3194.

Koehler, J. J. (1990). [Review of The Evolving Role of Statistical Assessments as Evidence in the Courts by Stephen E. Fienberg]. Judgment/Decision Making Newsletter, 9, 5.

Koehler, J. J. (1990). [Review of Statistics in Dentistry, 2nd ed., by J. S. Bulman & J. F. Osborn]. General Dentistry, 38, 310-11.

De Wit, H., Hogarth, R. M., Koehler, J. J. & Luchins, D. J. (1989). Effects of Diazepam on a belief-updating task. Psychological Reports, 64, 219-226.

INVITED PRESENTATIONS

Forensic Bioinformatics: The Science of DNA Profiling, Dayton, OH.  August, 2006.  Keynote Speaker (with M. Saks) + 2nd paper presentation. 

Northwestern University School of Law, Evanston, IL, Nov. 2004.

UCLA School of Law and Interdisciplinary Group in Behavioral Decision Making, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 2004.

94th Dahlem Workship on Heuristics and the Law.  Berlin, Germany, June 2004.

University of Michigan Law School, Life Sciences, Technology, and the Law, Ann Arbor, MI, March 2003.  Transcript available at: http://www.mttlr.org/volten/transcript.pdf 

International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Venice, Italy (w/ W. Thompson & M. Kromer), Aug. 2002.

California State University, Department of Mathematics, Fresno, CA, May 2002. 

Center for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), Conference on Psychology and Economics, ECARES, Brussels, Belgium.  Paper available at            http://www.cepr.org/meets/wkcn/3/3509/Papers/Koehler.pdf (w/ A. Brint), June 2001.

Dartmouth College, Ethics Institute, Hanover, NH, June 2001. 

Wharton School of Business, Decision Sciences Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, April 2000

New Hampshire Criminal Defense Attorney Annual Conference, Manchester, NH, Nov. 1999.

Ohio State University, Department of Psychology, Quantitative Workshop, Columbus, OH, April 1999.

European Science Foundation (Network on Human Reasoning and Decision Making), Milan, Italy (w/ L. Macchi), Feb. 1999.

Harvard University, Harvard Business School, ARG Workshop, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 1998.

Harvard University, Behavioral Economics Seminar, Cambridge, MA, Oct. 1998.

Harvard University, Social Psychology Research Workshop, Cambridge, MA (w/ Andrew Gershoff), Oct. 1998.

 Dartmouth College, Ethics Institute, Hanover, NH, Aug. 1998.

American Association for the Advancement of Science, Philadelphia, PA, Feb. 1998.

Texas Department of Public Safety and Albuquerque Police Department, DNA/Serology Laboratory, Austin, TX, Nov. 1997.

Dartmouth College, Ethics Institute, Hanover, NH, Aug. 1997.

Texas Department of Public Safety and Albuquerque Police Department, DNA/Serology Laboratory, Austin, TX, Jan. 1997.

Stanford Law School, Meeting on Organizational and Behavioral Economics, Stanford, CA, Oct. 1996.

University of Milan, Department of Psychology, Milan, Italy, July 1996.

Symposium: A Criminal Procedure?  O.J. Simpson and the Criminal Justice System on Trial, University of Colorado School of Law, Boulder, CO, Feb. 1996.

University of Oklahoma, Law School, Norman, OK, Feb. 1996.

American Association of Law Schools, Section on Evidence, San Antonio, TX, Jan. 1996.

Bucknell University, Depts. of Political Science & Sociology, Lewisburg, PA, Oct. 1995.

Texas Center for the Judiciary, College of Advanced Judicial Studies, Austin, TX, March 1995.

National Research Council, Committee on DNA Forensic Science,   Washington D.C, Nov. 1994.

San Francisco Bar Association, San Francisco, CA, Sept. 1994.

Florida Public Defender's Association, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, Dec. 1993.

Stanford University, Department of Psychology, Stanford, CA, July 1993.

American Statistical Association, local chapter, Austin, TX, April 1993.

University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, Center for Decision Research, Chicago, IL, Nov. 1992.

Stanford University, Psychology and Law Workshop, Stanford, CA, March 1991.

Social Psychology in Texas, Austin, TX, Jan. 1991.

University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School of Business, Philadelphia, PA, March 1990.

University of California, Department of Cognitive Sciences, Irvine, CA, Feb. 1990.

University of Oregon, Institute of Cognitive and Decision Sciences, Eugene, OR, Feb. 1990.

Wesleyan University, Department of Psychology, Middletown, CT, Feb. 1990.

University of Iowa, School of Law, Ames, IA, March 1989.

University of California, Graduate School of Business, Berkeley, CA, Feb. 1989.

American Bar Foundation, Chicago, IL, Feb. 1988.

Stanford University, Department of Psychology, Stanford, CA, Nov. 1988.

 

CONFERENCE PRESENTATIONS (COMPETITIVE)

Association for Consumer Research, Toronto, Canada (w/ A. D. Gershoff), October, 2003.

Judgment and Decision Making Society, Kansas City, MO (w/ M. Mercer & L. Starks), Nov. 2002.

Association for Consumer Research, Atlanta, GA (w/ J. Gourville), Oct. 2002.

Behavioral Decision Research in Management, Chicago, IL (w/ M. Mercer), May 2002.

Behavioral Decision Research in Management, Chicago, IL (w/ J. Gourville), May 2002.

American Psychology-Law Society, Austin, TX (w/ W. Thompson & M. Kromer), March 2002.

American Psychology-Law Society, Redondo Beach, CA, April 2000.

International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Raleigh, NC, Dec. 1999 (paper #1).

International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Raleigh, NC, Dec. 1999 (paper #2).

Judgment and Decision Making Society, Dallas, TX (w/ L. Macchi), Nov. 1998

American Psychology-Law Society, Redondo Beach, CA, March 1998.

American Psychological Association, Chicago, IL (w/ L. Macchi), Aug. 1997.

International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Edinburgh, Scotland, July 1996.

Judgment and Decision Making Society, Los Angeles, CA, Nov. 1995.

American Accounting Association, Orlando, FL (w/ S. Salterio), Aug. 1995.

Canadian Academic Accounting Association, Montreal (w/ S. Salterio), June 1995.

Calgary-Edmonton Annual Accounting Workshop, Alberta (w/ S. Salterio), Aug. 1994.

American Psychology-Law Society, Santa Fe, NM (w/ A. Chia & S. Lindsey). March 1994.

American Psychology-Law Society, Santa Fe, NM (w/ T. Lyon), March 1994.

Bayesian Research Conference, Los Angeles, CA, Feb. 1994.

International Conference on Forensic Statistics, Tempe, AZ, March 1993.

Judgment and Decision Making Society, St. Louis, MO, Nov. 1992.

American Psychological Association, Boston, MA, Aug. 1990.

Western Psychological Association, Long Beach, CA, April 1990.

International Conference on Forensic Statistics, University of Edinburgh, Scotland (w/ D. H. Kaye), April 1990.

 

INVITED PRESENTATIONS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS

QUEST, Continuing Education Center, 4/06.

Economics Department, Undergraduate Honors Group, 2003

Business Honors Program, Prospective Member Conference, 1997-present

Center for Criminology and Criminal Justice Research (Sociology), 2003

KUT Austin Radio Interview: "Probability and odds," 2003

Option II Executive MBA, 2002

Legal Environment of Business 323, 8 classes, 2000-2002

Legal Environment of Business 320, 8 classes, 2000-2002

Biology 301D, 2000

Business Administration 398T, 2000, 1997

Tejas Club, 2000

Endowed Scholarship Recognition Dinner, 2000

Honors Colloquium, 1999

Texas Institute of Latin American Research (TILAR), 1999

Hillel House, 1999

UT Interactive, 1999

Center for Criminology and Criminal Justice Research (Sociology), 1997

Business Honors Program Lyceum, 1999

College of Business Administration Parent's Day, 1999, 1998, 1997

Management Seminar, 1997

UT National Honor Society, 1997

Research Awards Colloquium, 1997

KUT Austin Radio Interview: "The future and limits of DNA evidence," 1995

Cognitive Science Colloquium (Psychology), 1995

Biology 301D, (J. Bull’s class), 1994

Decision Research Colloquium, 1994, 1992, 1990

Decision Analysis, 1994

Graduate School of Business Statistics Seminar, 1992

School of Law Faculty Colloquium, 1992

Graduate School of Business, Outside Funding Panel, 1992

Graduate School of Business, Information Systems Ph.D. Seminar, 1991, 1990

Social Psychology Ph.D. Seminar, 1991

 

TEACHING EXPERIENCE

Business Statistics (undergraduate, honors), UT, Business Honors Program, 1995-present.

Managerial Data and Decision Analysis (executive MBA, Mexico City), UT, 2001-present.

Statistics and Decision Analysis (Texas Evening MBA), UT, 2004.

Managerial Data and Decision Analysis (executive MBA, Dallas), UT, 2003 (50% of class).

Probability and Science in the Courtroom (graduate/law), UT School of Law, 1995-2003

Probabilistic Reasoning in the Law (graduate/law), UT School of Law, 1992-2003

Behavioral Decision Theory (doctoral), UT, Graduate School of Business, 1992-1995

Research in Probabilistic Judgment (undergraduate & graduate), UT, College and Graduate School of Business, 1997.

Decision Analysis (MBA & MPA), UT, Graduate School of Business, 1991-1996.

Law and Social Science (law), Stanford Law School (w/ D. L. Rosenhan), 1990.

Behavioral Statistics (undergraduate), Stanford University, 1990.

Managerial Decision Making (MBA), University of Chicago, Graduate School of Business, 1988.

* Median teaching rating across all courses: 4.7/5.0 *

Additional Courses

Business Research -- Independent Study Course (undergraduate, honors), 2001.

Teachers as Scholars (seminar in reasoning, for teachers in central Texas), 2001.

Research Issues in Decision Making (Decision Research Colloquium, doctoral), UT, Graduate School of Business, 1993.

PROFESSIONAL AFFILIATIONS AND ACTIVITIES

Editor: Law, Probability, and Risk (Oxford University Press), 2005-present.

Faculty Editor: Undergraduate Research Journal, 2005-present.

Editorial Board: Journal of Behavioral Decision Making (Wiley), 2004-present.

Associate Editor: Law, Probability, and Risk (Oxford University Press), 2001-2005.

Session Chair: International Conference on Forensic Statistics, 2002.

Session Chair: Society for Judgment and Decision Making, 2000, 1992.

Reviewer for:
Business Journals: Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes; Theory and Decision; Decision Support Systems; IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man & Cybernetics.
Business Books: Duxbury Press.
Psychology Journals: Psychological Review; Psychological Science; Memory and Cognition; Journal of Behavioral Decision Making; Journal of Personality and Social Psychology; Behavioral and Brain Sciences; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory and Cognition; Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied; Journal of Experimental Psychology: General; Psychonomic Bulletin & Review; Psycoloquy; British Journal of Social Psychology.
Legal Journals: Journal of Legal Studies; Journal of Empirical Legal Studies; Law and Human Behavior; Jurimetrics Journal; Law and Society Review; Behavioral Sciences and the Law; Law, Probability and Risk.
Medical Journals: General Dentistry; Springer-Verlag Publications (Psychology & Medicine).
Grant Proposals: National Science Foundation: Decision, Risk, & Management Science; National Science Foundation: Law and Social Science; The Israel Science Foundation.
Conferences: American Psychological Association, Division 41 (Psychology and Law).

Member: American Statistical Association; Judgment and Decision Making Society; American Psychology-Law Society.

DNA Statistical Training: Texas Department of Public Safety, DNA/Serology Laboratory, Austin, TX, 1995-1999.

Judge: Statistics Prize: Texas State Science and Engineering Fair, 1997.

Radio Commentator: KUT Austin,TX, “Probability and odds," 2003; KFYI ("Wake Up, Arizona") Phoenix, AZ, DNA evidence in the Clinton / Lewinsky case, 1998; KFYI ("Wake Up, Arizona") Phoenix, AZ, DNA evidence in the O. J. Simpson case, 1994.

EXPERT WITNESS / CONSULTING (QUANTITATIVE EVIDENCE)

  • Time to Change, Colorado Community Center, 2/05 (consultant)
  • State (TX) v. Russo, Austin, TX, 2/04 (consultant)
  • State (MO) v. R. Williams, 6/03 (consultant)
  • A & G Healthcare Services, Dallas, TX, 12/02 (consultant)
  • U.S. v. Keith, (U.S. Dist., N. Dist. Tex., Ft. Worth Div.), 3/99-1/02 (consultant)
  • Viazis v. AAO, Dallas, TX 3/99-11/00 (consultant)
  • People (CA) v. Miles, 1/99 (witness, admissibility hearing), 3/99 (witness)
  • People (CA) v. Abujaber & People (CA) v. Williams, 11/98 (witness, admissibility hearing)
  • State (TX) v. Gage, 3/98 (witness)
  • State (TX) v. Scaggs, 3/98 (consultant)
  • City of Friendswood (TX) v. Exxon Pipeline Co., 11/97 (consultant)
  • Thera-Med Devices, Inc. v. U.S. Fire Insurance et al. 1/97 (TX) (consultant)
  • State (TX) v. M.G. Williams, 1/97 (consultant)
  • U.S. v. Shea, 8/96 (New Hampshire Federal Court) (witness, admissibility hearing)
  • People (CA) v. Purcell, 5/96 (consultant)
  • U.S. Military Academy v. Cadet Dean B. Roberts, 4/96 (witness, hearing)
  • State (TX) v. Gantt, 3/96 (consultant)
  • State (TX) v. Griffith, 1/96 (witness)
  • Commonwealth of Massachusetts v. Vao, 10/95 (witness, admissibility hearing)
  • People (CA) v. O. J. Simpson, 6/95, 10/94 (consultant)
  • State (TX) v. Hepner, 6/95 (witness, admissibility hearing)
  • Commonwealth of Virginia v. Hodges, 6/95 (witness), 3/96 (witness)
  • State (LA) v. Ford, 10/94 (witness)
  • State (MN) v. Bloom, 8/94 (witness)
  • Her Majesty the Queen R v. Love (Canada), 6/94 (witness)
  • State (TX) v. Hopkins, 5/94 (witness)
  • State (TX) v. Mitchell, 1992 (witness)
  • State (TX) v. Wooten, 1992 (consultant)
  • Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, San Francisco, 1990 (analyzed methodological and statistical features of the observer coverage program for foreign tuna vessels).