Aurore Delaigle FAA is a Professor and ARC Future Fellow in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne, Australia. [1] [2] Her research interests include nonparametric statistics, deconvolution and functional data analysis. [3]
Following her undergraduate degree in mathematics at Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium, [4] she completed a PhD in statistics at the same institution on kernel estimation in deconvolution problems. [5] In her early career, she undertook a postdoctoral fellowship at University of California, Davis, before joining University of California, San Diego as an assistant professor. [6] She was also a Reader at the University of Bristol. [6]
In 2014, she was promoted to Professor at the University of Melbourne. [7]
While at UC San Diego, she was awarded a Hellman Fellowship (2006–07). [8]
In 2013, she was awarded the Moran Medal from the Australian Academy of Science, for her contribution to "contemporary statistical problems". [9]
From 2013 to 2018, she is an ARC Future Fellow, investigating new nonparametric statistical methods. [2]
She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics [10] for her work in "non-parametric function estimation, measurement error problems, and functional data". [11] She is also an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. [12] In 2018 she became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association [13] and in May 2020 she was elected Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science. [14] [15]
Lawrence David (Larry) Brown was Miers Busch Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He is known for his groundbreaking work in a broad range of fields including decision theory, recurrence and partial differential equations, nonparametric function estimation, minimax and adaptation theory, and the analysis of census data and call-center data.
Peter Gavin Hall was an Australian researcher in probability theory and mathematical statistics. The American Statistical Association described him as one of the most influential and prolific theoretical statisticians in the history of the field. The School of Mathematics and Statistics Building at The University of Melbourne was renamed the Peter Hall building in his honour on 9 December 2016.
Tianwen Tony Cai is a Chinese statistician. He is the Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Statistics and Vice Dean at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also professor of Applied Math & Computational Science Graduate Group, and associate scholar at the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. In 2008 Tony Cai was awarded the COPSS Presidents' Award.
Jayanta Kumar Ghosh was an Indian statistician, an emeritus professor at Indian Statistical Institute and a professor of statistics at Purdue University.
Richard John Samworth is the Professor of Statistical Science and the Director of the Statistical Laboratory, University of Cambridge, and a Teaching Fellow of St John's College, Cambridge. He was educated at St John's College, Cambridge. His main research interests are in nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics. Particular topics include shape-constrained density estimation and other nonparametric function estimation problems, nonparametric classification, clustering and regression, the bootstrap and high-dimensional variable selection problems.
Larry Alan Wasserman is a Canadian-American statistician and a professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University.
Xihong Lin is a Chinese–American statistician known for her contributions to mixed models, nonparametric and semiparametric regression, and statistical genetics and genomics. As of 2015, she is the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics.
Malay Ghosh is an Indian statistician and currently a Distinguished Professor at the University of Florida. He obtained a B.S. in 1962 from the University of Calcutta, and subsequently a M.A. in 1964 from the University of Calcutta. Then he moved to the United States to pursue higher academic studies and obtained his Ph.D. degree in 1969 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, under the supervision of Pranab K. Sen.
Iain Murray Johnstone is an Australian born statistician who is the Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor in Quantitative Science in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University.
Ruth Jeannette Williams is an Australian-born American mathematician at the University of California, San Diego where she holds the Charles Lee Powell Chair as a Distinguished Professor of Mathematics. Her research concerns probability theory and stochastic processes.
Kerrie Mengersen is an Australian statistician. Since 2016, she has been Distinguished Professor of Statistics at Queensland University of Technology in the Science and Engineering Faculty.
Neena Gupta is a professor at the Statistics and Mathematics Unit of the Indian Statistical Institute (ISI), Kolkata. Her primary fields of interest are commutative algebra and affine algebraic geometry.
Constance van Eeden was a Dutch mathematical statistician who made "exceptional contributions to the development of statistical sciences in Canada". She was interested in nonparametric statistics including maximum likelihood estimation and robust statistics, and did foundational work on parameter spaces.
Elizaveta (Liza) Levina is a Russian and American mathematical statistician. She is the Vijay Nair Collegiate Professor of Statistics at the University of Michigan, and is known for her work in high-dimensional statistics, including covariance estimation, graphical models, statistical network analysis, and nonparametric statistics.
Peiyong "Annie" Qu is a Chinese-American statistician known for her work on estimating equations and semiparametric models. Her research interests also include longitudinal analysis, nonparametric statistics and robust statistics, missing data, and biostatistics.
Ingrid Van Keilegom is a Belgian statistician. She is a professor of operations research and business statistics at KU Leuven, and an extraordinary professor at the Université catholique de Louvain. Her research interests include survival analysis, observational error, econometrics, and nonparametric statistics.
Dirk Pieter Kroese is a Dutch-Australian mathematician and statistician, and Professor at the University of Queensland. He is known for several contributions to applied probability, kernel density estimation, Monte Carlo methods and rare event simulation. He is, with Reuven Rubinstein, a pioneer of the Cross-Entropy (CE) method.
Kerry Anne Landman is an Australian applied mathematician, known for her cross-disciplinary research. Over her research career she established and led collaborations across engineering, industry and biological fields. In 2007, she became the first woman professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Melbourne. She retired in 2015 and is now an Emeritus Professor at the University of Melbourne.
Gael Margaret Martin is an Australian Bayesian econometrician, known for her work in simulation-based inference and time series analysis of non-Gaussian data. She is a professor of econometrics and business statistics at Monash University, an associate investigator in the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Mathematical and Statistical Frontiers, and a Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences in Australia.
Huazhen Lin is a Chinese statistician known for her research on survival analysis and nonparametric statistics. She works as a professor of statistics and director of the Center of Statistical Research at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics in Chengdu.