Larry Alan Wasserman (born 1959) is a

Canadian Canadians (french: Canadiens) are people identified with the country of Canada. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Canadians, many (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of ...

-American

statistician A statistician is a person who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may wor ...

and a professor in the Department of Statistics & Data Science and the Machine Learning Department at

Carnegie Mellon University Carnegie Mellon University (CMU) is a private research university in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. One of its predecessors was established in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie as the Carnegie Technical Schools; it became the Carnegie Institute of Technology ...

Biography

Wasserman received his Ph.D. from the

University of Toronto The University of Toronto (UToronto or U of T) is a public research university in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, located on the grounds that surround Queen's Park. It was founded by royal charter in 1827 as King's College, the first institution ...

in 1988 under the supervision of

Robert Tibshirani Robert Tibshirani (born July 10, 1956) is a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. He was a professor at the University of Toronto from 1985 to 1998. In his work, he develops statistical to ...

. He received the

COPSS Presidents' Award The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a young statistician in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics. The COPSS Presidents' Award is generally ...

in 1999"Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies: Presidents' Award: Past Award Recipients," National Institute of Statistical Sciences, accessed August 14, 2011
http://nisla05.niss.org/copss/PastAwardsPresidents.pdf
. and the CRM- SSC Prize in 2002."The 2002 CRM-SSC Prize is awarded to Larry Wasserman,"Centre de recherches mathématiques, accessed August 14, 2011
http://www.crm.umontreal.ca/prix/prixCRM-SSC/2002_CRM-SSC_an.html
He was elected a fellow of the

American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts on November 27, 1839, and is the second oldest continuousl ...

in 1996,"ASA Fellows," American Statistical Association, accessed August 14, 2011
http://www.amstat.org/careers/fellowslist.cfm
of the

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts o ...

in 2004,"IMS Fellows," Institute of Mathematical Statistics, accessed August 14, 2011
http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm
and of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

in 2011. He was elected to

National Academy of Sciences The National Academy of Sciences (NAS) is a United States nonprofit, non-governmental organization. NAS is part of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, along with the National Academy of Engineering (NAE) and the Nati ...

in May, 2016.

Selected works

Wasserman has written many research papers about

nonparametric inference Nonparametric statistics is the branch of statistics that is not based solely on parametrized families of probability distributions (common examples of parameters are the mean and variance). Nonparametric statistics is based on either being dist ...

, asymptotic theory, causality, and applications of statistics to astrophysics, bioinformatics, and genetics. He has also written two advanced statistics textbooks, ''All of Statistics'' and ''All of Nonparametric Statistics''. * 2004. ''All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference''. Springer-Verlag, New York. : won ''DeGroot Prize 2005''. * 2006. ''All of Nonparametric Statistics''. Springer. * 2013.
Topological Inference
'. Reitz Lecture 2013.

Honors and awards

* 2016, Member of

: Wasserman was elected to National Academy of Sciences in recognition of his distinguished and continuing achievement in original research.Larry Wasserman Elected To National Academy of Sciences
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References

External links

Wasserman's home page Wasserman's Blog on Statistics and Machine Learning
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Biography

Selected works

Honors and awards

See also

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