[1] In 1997 he went to the National Institute of Standards and Technology, then served as chief statistician of the U.S. Department of Transportation, and finally joined the U.S. Food and Drug Administration in 2002.
[1] In 2003, he returned to academics at Duke University and is currently the director of the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute since 2018.
[citation needed] He has been a member of the board of directors of the American Statistical Association, and he is a past-President of the Classification Society.
[citation needed] His research areas include models for dynamic networks, dynamic text networks, adversarial risk analysis (i.e., Bayesian behavioral game theory), human rights statistics, agent-based models, forensics, and certain topics in high-dimensional data analysis.
[citation needed] Banks coauthored a survey article in 2006 on statistical aspects of data quality,[4] and another in 2009 on adversarial risk analysis.