Jon A. Wellner

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Jon August Wellner
Born (1945-08-17) August 17, 1945 (age 78)
Education
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Institutions
Doctoral advisor Galen Shorack
Doctoral students Nilanjan Chatterjee
Marloes Maathuis
Florentina Bunea
Moulinath Banerjee

Jon August Wellner (born August 17, 1945) is an American statistician known for his contributions to the fields of statistical inference, empirical process theory, and survival analysis. [1]

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Education and career

Wellner was born in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in various cities in the US. Wellner attended Ogden High School in Ogden, Utah and graduated in 1963. [2] He went on to attend the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1968. After a brief stint in graduate school at Yale University in 1969–1970 and serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1969 to 1971, he returned to graduate study in statistics at the University of Washington and received his Ph.D. in 1975 with Galen Shorack as his advisor. [3] [4]

Wellner worked as an assistant professor and associate professor of statistics at the University of Rochester from 1975 to 1983, after which he moved back to the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington and became a professor of statistics. He remained at the University of Washington for the rest of his career, retiring in 2020. [5]

Honors and awards

Wellner was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) in 1983, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2006; he became an elected member of the International Statistical Institute in 2010. He was the Noether Distinguished Scholar of the ASA in 2011. [6] He gave the Le Cam lecture of the IMS in 2015. [7] He served as the executive editor of Statistical Science . Wellner was the president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics between 2016 and 2017. In 2010, he was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion. [3] [4] A conference in honor of Wellner's 65th birthday was held in July of 2010. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 Banerjee, Moulinath; Bunea, Florentina; Huang, Jian; Koltchinskii, Vladimir; Maathuis, Marloes (2013). "Preface". From Probability to Statistics and Back: High-Dimensional Models and Processes -- A Festschrift in Honor of Jon A. Wellner. arXiv: 1808.05014 . doi:10.1214/12-imscoll9. ISBN   9780940600836. JSTOR   26771023.
  2. Banerjee, Moulinath; Bunea, Florentina; Huang, Jian; Koltchinskii, Vladimir; Maathuis, Marloes (2013). "Biography". From Probability to Statistics and Back: High-Dimensional Models and Processes -- A Festschrift in Honor of Jon A. Wellner. arXiv: 1808.05014 . doi:10.1214/12-imscoll9. ISBN   9780940600836. JSTOR   26771023.
  3. 1 2 Banerjee, Moulinath; Samworth, Richard J. (November 1, 2018). "A Conversation with Jon Wellner". Statistical Science. 33 (4). arXiv: 1808.05014 . doi:10.1214/18-STS670. ISSN   0883-4237. S2CID   88523234.
  4. 1 2 "Biographical Sketch of Jon A. Wellner". sites.stat.washington.edu. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
  5. "Jon Wellner retires after 37 years at UW | Biostatistics". www.biostat.washington.edu. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
  6. "Gottfried E. Noether Awards". Default. Retrieved October 17, 2023.
  7. "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Le Cam Lecture preview: Jon A. Wellner" . Retrieved October 17, 2023.