Murad Salman Taqqu (Arabic: مراد طقو) is an Iraqi probabilist and statistician specializing in time series and stochastic processes.
[citation needed] As an undergraduate, he studied physics and mathematics at the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
[1] He obtained his Ph.D. at Columbia University in 1972, with his dissertation Limit Theorems for Sums of Strongly Dependent Random Variables supervised by Benoit Mandelbrot.
[2] Between 1972 and 1974 Taqqu lectured at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and worked as a post-doctoral fellow at the Weizmann Institute in Rehovot.
From 1974 to 1985, he was a faculty member at the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell University.