Tony Cox is President of Cox Associates, an independent, Denver-based applied research and consulting company specializing in (a) Wireless and optical network design and optimization software tools, (b) Customer data mining and predictive modeling, and (c) Decision and risk analysis technologies. Cox Associates' eleven scientists and mathematicians develop and apply computer simulation models, artificial intelligence (AI) data-mining algorithms and predictive modeling methods, and telecommunications network optimization software products to measurably improve business and engineering decision-making .
Dr. Cox holds a Ph.D. in Risk Analysis (1986) and an S.M. in Operations Research (1985), both from M.I.T.'s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science; and an AB from Harvard University (1978, mathematical economics). Prior to starting Cox Associates in 1986, he consulted in risk analysis, economics and statistics, operations research, and artificial intelligence at Arthur D. Little, Inc. in Cambridge, Massachusetts. From 1987 to 1996, he managed applied research and high-tech product development efforts for U S WEST Advanced Technologies (USWAT) in Boulder, Colorado. He was Senior Director of Advanced Communications Research, Business and Engineering Modeling, and Network Architectures. He managed over 100 professional engineers and scientists in the areas of optoelectronic research, broadband network architectures and technologies, multimedia systems and services, management science and statistics modeling, network economics and performance analysis, wireless architecture and engineering, network evolution, product test and development, standards, international projects, digital signal processing and speech applications, network optimization, and breakthrough projects. He is currently an Adjunct Professor of Mathematics at the University of Colorado at Denver, where he lectures on topics in applied mathematics, statistics, and operations research.
Dr. Cox has taught graduate-level courses in Wireless Technologies (1997), Decision and Risk Analysis (1993, 1986), and Applied Statistics (1987-1989) at the University of Colorado at Boulder, the Harvard University Extension School, and Denver University. He served on the Advisory Board of the Mathematics Department at the University of Colorado at Denver from 1987 to 1995. He has lectured widely on topics in telecommunications, risk analysis, risk management, applied mathematics, biomathematics, artificial intelligence, and computer science. He is on the Editorial Board of Risk Analysis: An International Journal, and is Co-Editor of the Journal of Heuristics. He is a full member of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), and the American Statistical Association. He has chaired numerous conference sessions on various aspects of risk, uncertainty, network design, and optimization. He was elected to the New York Academy of Sciences in 1992 and was made a lifetime Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis in 1993. In 1994, he was a recipient of the Operations Research Society of America's prestigious ORSA prize for the best real-world applications of operations research having profound business impact.
In addition to hands-on experience and professional activities in telecommunications decision and risk analysis, operations research, artificial intelligence, and applied statistics, Dr. Cox has authored and co-authored over 100 journal articles and book chapters on advanced aspects of these fields. He holds over a dozen U.S. and international patents on applications of network optimization, speech recognition, and signal processing technologies in telecommunications. His current research interests center on applications of artificial intelligence and computational statistical methods to demand-forecasting, optimization, and causal inference and modeling problems arising in telecommunications customer data analysis and network capacity planning.