Shaul Bar-Lev received his D.Sc. degree from Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1981. His research interests are mathematical statistics, statistical inference, asymptotic theory, characterizations, exponential families, variance functions, sampling, randomized response models, applied stochastic models, group testing, and marketing surveys.  He is currently an associate editor for Mathematical Methods of Statistics and Advances and Applications in Statistics. Since 2004, Shaul Bar-Lev has been an Extramural Fellow of the CentER (Center for Economic Research) at the University of Tilburg, the Netherlands. He was awarded Fellow of the American Statistical Association for outstanding contributions to the statistical profession, for his contributions to statistical theory—especially on exponential families of distributions—and for work in effectively establishing statistical support and consulting activities.  

Mathematical statistics, statistical inference, asymptotic theory, characterizations, exponential families, variance functions, sampling, randomized response models, applied stochastic models, group testing, and marketing surveys.   

• Bar-Lev, Shaul K. (1983). A characterization of certain statistics in exponential models whose distributions depend on a sub-vector of parameters only. Ann. Statist. 11, 746–752.
• Bar-Lev, Shaul K. (1984). Asymptotic behaviour of conditional maximum likelihood estimators in a certain exponential model. J. Roy. Statist. Soc. Ser. B 46, 425–430.
• Bar-Lev, Shaul K. and Enis, Peter (1988(. Sign-preserving unbiased estimators in linear exponential families. J. Amer. Statist. Assoc. 83, 1187–1189.
• Bar-Lev, Shaul K., Bshouty, Daoud and Enis, Peter (1991). Variance functions with meromorphic means. Ann. Probab. 19, 1349–1366.
• Bar-Lev, Shaul K.; Bshouty, Daoud; Enis, Peter; Letac, Gérard; Lu, I-Li; Richards, Donald (1994). The diagonal multivariate natural exponential families and their classification. J. Theoret. Probab. 7, 883–929.
• Bar-Lev, Shaul K.; Bshouty, Daoud; Letac, Gérard (2002). Normal, gamma and inverse-Gaussian are the only NEFs where the bilateral UMPU and GLR tests coincide. Ann. Statist.30, 1524–1534.
• Bar-Lev, Shaul K.; Boxma, Onno; Letac, Gérard (2010). A characterization related to the equilibrium distribution associated with a polynomial structure. J. Appl. Probab. 47, 293–299.
• Bar-Lev, Shaul K.; Löpker, Andreas; Stadje, Wolfgang (2012). On the small-time behavior of subordinators. Bernoulli 18, 823–835.