Name: Viorel Gh. VODÃ

Address: Centre for Mathematical Statistics, Casa Academiei Romane, Calea 13 Septembrie nr. 13, RO-76100, Bucharest 5, Romania

Date and Place of Birth: January 8th, 1944, Bucharest

Marital Status: Married, three children

Education:

• June, 1962 – Graduated from College
• July, 1967 – M. A. (Mathematics), Bucharest University
• May, 1977 – Ph. D. (Statistics), Centre for Mathematical Statistics, Thesis: Generalized Rayleigh model in durability analysis

Brief Chronology of Employment:

• 1967 – Centre for Mathematical Statistics

Distinctions:

• Academy Award for 1994 (granted by the Section of Economic Sciences)
• Honorary Medal “100 years of the Mathematical Gazette” (1995)
• Included in the 2001 Edition of the International Directoty of Distinguished Leadership “American Biographical Institute“,Raleigh, NC

Visiting Professorships:

• 1973 Institute of Cybernetics, Cuban Academy of Sciences, La HABANA
• 1983 Bulgarian Committee for Quality, Sofia

Invited speaker at international scientific meetings in: Plovdiv (1983), Magdeburg (1985), Frankfurt nach Oder (1985)

Short visits (2 up 3 weeks) abroad under exchange of the Romanian Academy: former Czechoslovakya (1986, 1988), Sweden (1979, 1982, 1986), former GDR (1985), Bulgaria (1991), People’s Republic of China (1984), USA (1980, 1989), former FRG (1988)

Lectures delivered at the universities of: California (at Berkeley) (1974), Tampa (1975), Columbia N.Y. (1975), Prague (1976), Sofia (1983), Beijing (1984), North Carolina (at Raleigh) (1989)