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Martin T. Wells, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics
Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research at Weill Medical School

Dr. Martin T. Wells is the Charles A. Alexander Professor of Statistical Sciences, Professor and Chair of the Department of Statistics, Professor of Social Statistics at Cornell, Professor of Clinical Epidemiology and Health Services Research at Weill Medical School, an Elected Member of the Cornell Law School Faculty, as well as the Director of Research at the ILR School and SRI Faculty Director. His empirical legal studies have appeared in leading legal publications, and cover civil rights, finance, punitive damages, judge and jury trials, and the death penalty. He is also the Editor in Chief of ASA-SIAM Series on Statistics and Applied Probability, Co-Editor of The Journal of Empirical Legal Studies, and served as the Editor of The Journal of the American Statistical Association-Reviews. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Royal Statistical Society.