Michael A. Fligner is Professor Emeritus at the Ohio State University. He received his B.S. in mathematics from the State University of New York at Stony
Brook and his Ph.D. from the University of Connecticut. He has spent his entire professional career at the Ohio State University where he was Vice Chair of the
Department for over 10 years and also served as Director of the Statistical Consulting Service. He has done consulting work with several large corporations in Central Ohio.
Professor Fligner's research interests are in Nonparametric Statistical methods and he received the Statistics in Chemistry award from the American Statistical Association for work on detecting biologically active compounds. He is co-author of the book Statistical Methods for Behavioral Ecology and received a Fulbright scholarship under the American Republics Research program to work at the Charles Darwin Research Station in the Galapagos Islands. He has been an Associate Editor of the Journal of Statistical Education.