Dr. Averill M. Law, President of Averill M. Law & Associates, is one of the world’s foremost experts on simulation modeling and distribution fitting. He is the author of the textbook Simulation Modeling and Analysis (Fourth Edition), which has more than 115,000 copies in print. This book contains the most comprehensive and practical discussion of fitting probability distributions to data that is available.
He has been a consultant to organizations such as Accenture, ARCO, Boeing, Defense Modeling and Simulation Office, Federal Highway Administration, Hewlett-Packard, Kimberly-Clark, M&M/Mars, Oak Ridge National Lab, SAIC, 3M, Tropicana, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, U.S. Post Office, and Xerox.
Dr. Law has presented more than 450 simulation short courses in 18 countries. He has been the keynote speaker at simulation conferences around the world. Dr. Law is the author of numerous technical papers on simulation, statistics, operations research, manufacturing, and communications. He wrote a regular column on simulation for Industrial Engineering magazine.
Dr. Law has been a tenured faculty member at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the University of Arizona. He has a Ph.D. in industrial engineering and operations research from the University of California at Berkeley.