David Madigan is USC’s provost and executive vice president for academic affairs. As the university’s chief academic officer, he leads USC’s academic enterprise and works to advance excellence across its teaching, research and scholarship.

Madigan holds the Shelly and Ofer Nemirovsky Provost’s Chair and serves as professor of data sciences and operations at the USC Marshall School of Business, with joint appointments in the Department of Population and Public Health Sciences at the Keck School of Medicine of USC and the Department of Mathematics at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences.

An internationally recognized scholar in statistics, Madigan has spent decades working at the intersection of data science, medicine and public health. His research spans Bayesian statistics, text mining, pharmacovigilance and probabilistic graphical models, with a particular focus on improving how the safety and effectiveness of medical treatments are evaluated. He has published more than 200 academic papers and served as editor-in-chief of Statistical Science.

Before joining USC, Madigan served as provost and senior vice president for academic affairs at Northeastern University, where he was the academic leader of a 14-campus global university system. He previously spent 13 years at Columbia University, rising from chair of the Department of Statistics to executive vice president for arts and sciences and dean of the faculty. He also held positions at Rutgers University, the University of Washington and several technology and professional services companies.

Madigan is an elected fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He earned his bachelor’s degree in mathematics and doctorate in statistics from Trinity College Dublin.