Professor Owen has been a leader in Monte Carlo, sampling, and experimental design. He recently chaired the relevant conference (http://mcqmc2016.stanford.edu

Professor Owen has been a leader in Monte Carlo, sampling, and experimental design. He recently chaired the relevant conference (http://mcqmc2016.stanford.edu http://mcqmc2016.stanford.edu). People who do experimental design should have some understanding of what QMC, for example, can offer -- standard error reduction by 1/n as opposed to just 1/sqrt(n). He was also one of the few statisticians who was seriously interested in neural nets long before they became fashionable, serving as a reviewer of learning theory work for NIPS.