John C. Gittins
| John C. Gittins | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1938 (age 78–79) |
| Alma mater | University of Wales |
| Thesis | Optimal resource allocation in chemical research (1968) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dennis Lindley |
| Known for | Gittins index |
| Notable awards |
Rollo Davidson Prize (1982) Guy Medal (Silver, 1984) |
John Charles Gittins (born 1938) is a researcher in applied probability and operations research, who is a professor and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford University.
He is renowned as the developer of the "Gittins index", which is used for sequential decision-making, especially in research and development in the pharmaceutical industry. He has research interests in applied probability, decision analysis and optimal decisions, including optimal stopping and .
Gittins was an Assistant Director of Research at the Department of Engineering, Cambridge University from 1967 to 1974. Then he was a lecturer at Oxford University from 1975 to 2005 and head of the Department of Statistics there for 6 years. In 1992, Oxford University awarded him the degree Doctor of Science (D. Sci.). In 1996 he became a Professor of Statistics at Oxford University.
He has been awarded the Rollo Davidson Prize (1982) for early-career probabilists, and the Guy Medal in Silver (1984).
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