Biography
Jo Eidsvik is Professor of Statistics at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway. His research interests are spatio-temporal statistics, computational statistics and experimental sampling designs. He works mainly on Earth sciences applications. Eidsvik has co-authored the book on ‘Value of Information in the Earth Sciences’, Cambridge University Press, 2015. Eidsvik is associate editor of Statistics and Computing and Mathematical Geosciences. He leads the research project Marine Autonomous Sampling and Control, where the goal is to develop methods and algorithms for effective AUV sampling of river plumes and ocean fronts. He is Research Director of the Centre for Geophysical Forecasting at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.