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 125,000 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 simulation consultant to numerous organizations including Accenture, ARCO, Boeing, Booz Allen & Hamilton, Defense Modeling and Simulation Office, Hewlett-Packard, ITT, Kimberly-Clark, M&M/Mars, Monsanto, Oak Ridge National Lab, SAIC, Sandia National Labs, 3M, Tropicana, Xerox, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Army, U.S. Navy, and U.S. Post Office.
Dr. Law has presented more than 490 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. He won the 2009 INFORMS Simulation Society Lifetime Professional Achievement Award.
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.