Richard (Rick) K. Burdick is an Emeritus Professor of Statistics, Arizona State University (ASU), where he instructed undergraduate and graduate students for 29 years. Following his tenure at ASU, Dr. Burdick was a Quality Engineering Director for Amgen Inc. for 10 years.

Dr. Burdick's research and consulting interests consider several CMC statistical applications including comparability studies, stability data analysis, analytical method validation, quality by design process characterization, and analytical similarity for biosimilar products. He has written over 60 journal articles and three books, including Confidence Intervals for Random and Mixed ANOVA Models with Applications to Gauge R&R Studies, (with C. M. Borror and D. C. Montgomery) and Confidence Intervals on Variance Components, (with F. A. Graybill).

Dr. Burdick is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association and a member of the American Society for Quality. He has served on the USP Statistics Expert Committee since 2010.

He received his Bachelor's Degree in Statistics from the University of Wyoming. He received his Masters and Doctorate degrees in Statistics from Texas A&M University.