Gerald (Gerry) J. Hahn

Gerry Hahn, Manager retired as Manager—Applied Statistics, GE Research and Development in May 2001. At GE he led an 18-person group that provides leadership to GE businesses in applying statistical tools to meet their strategic goals, including Six Sigma implementation. Gerry joined GE in 1955 and assumed his managerial position in 1973. He received his Ph.D in Operations Research & Statistics from Rensselear Polytechnic Institute, and also holds degrees from the City College of New York, Columbia University, and Union College. He is the co-author of three books, has contributed to ten others, published over 100 papers in refereed engineering and statistical journals, has given over 150 invited presentations, and written regular columns for Chemtech and Quality Progress. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) and the American Society for Quality (ASQ), and is an elected member of the International Statistics Institute. He is the recipient of 12 special ASA and ASQ awards (including ASQ’s Distinguished Service Medal and Deming, Hunter, Shewhart, Wilcoxon and Youden Prizes), and is a GE R&D Coolidge Fellow. He has been the keynote speaker at numerous conferences. His professional contributions include founding chair of the ASA Section on Quality and Productivity, chair of the ASA Committee on Fellows, Associate Editor of Technometrics, Journal of Quality Technology, and Six Sigma Forum and chair of the Gordon Research Conference on Statistics in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. He is currently an adjunct professor at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, is writing a book on his experiences as an industrial statistician, and is serving as a consultant to various companies.

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For 2003 Fall Technical Conference keynote address slides, “The Embedded Statistician,” click here

For 2003 Fall Technical Conference keynote address text, click here

For talk “Statistics in the Corporate World: What I wish I had known 50 Years ago,” click here.

For three articles in Six Sigma Forum Magazine: click here

Contact info: gerryhahn@yahoo.com, 518:374-0713

March 7, 2004