Gordon Kaufman

Gordon Kaufman is the Morris A. Adelman Professor of Management, Emeritus and a Professor of Statistics at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His research focuses on primary energy resources, particularly the process of discovering oil and gas. He has a long-standing interest in Bayesian econometrics, multivariate analysis, and risk analysis of complex strategic problems. His current research interest involves appraising uncertainties within large systems with logically related components, such as global climate change models and Bayesian networks, when experts provide incomplete information. Kaufman holds a BS in industrial engineering and electrical engineering from Yale University and an MBA and a DBA from Harvard University.