Murad Taqqu

Murad Taqqu (Arabic: مراد تقّو) is a probabilist and statistician specializing in time series and . His research areas have included long-range dependence, self-similar processes, and heavy tails. He is a Professor of Mathematics at Boston University and received his Ph.D. at Columbia University. He has published over 250 papers, many of which are considered seminal work. He has co-authored or co-edited 9 books.

Taqqu was born in Baghdad, Iraq, and grew up in Switzerland. As an undergraduate, he studied Physics and Mathematics at the University of Lausanne – École polytechnique. He pursued his PhD at Columbia University, during which time he studied with Benoit Mandelbrot. Between 1972 and 1974 Taqqu lectured at Hebrew University in Jerusalem and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at The Weizmann Institute in Rehovot, Israel. From 1974 to 1985, he was a faculty member at the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell University. Since 1985, Taqqu has served as a professor in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at Boston University.

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