Stanley Wasserman (born August 29, 1951) is an American statistician and prior to retirement was the Rudy Professor of Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology at
Indiana University Bloomington
Indiana University Bloomington (IU Bloomington, Indiana University, IU, or simply Indiana) is a public research university in Bloomington, Indiana. It is the flagship campus of Indiana University and, with over 40,000 students, its largest ca ...
and the Academic Supervisor of the International laboratory for Applied Network Research at Moscow's
(since 2014). He is known for his work on
social network analysis
Social network analysis (SNA) is the process of investigating social structures through the use of networks and graph theory. It characterizes networked structures in terms of ''nodes'' (individual actors, people, or things within the network) ...
,
mathematical sociology
Mathematical sociology or the sociology of mathematics is an interdisciplinary field of research concerned both with the use of mathematics within sociological research as well as research into the relationships that exist between maths and socie ...
,
network science
Network science is an academic field which studies complex networks such as telecommunication networks, computer networks, biological networks, cognitive and semantic networks, and social networks, considering distinct elements or actors rep ...
and
multidimensional network
In network theory, multidimensional networks, a special type of ''multilayer network'', are networks with multiple kinds of relations. Increasingly sophisticated attempts to model real-world systems as multidimensional networks have yielded valua ...
. In 2017 Wasserman launched the Master's program 'Applied statistics with Network Analysis' at
.
Biography
Born in
Louisville, Kentucky
Louisville ( , , ) is the largest city in the Commonwealth of Kentucky and the 28th most-populous city in the United States. Louisville is the historical seat and, since 2003, the nominal seat of Jefferson County, on the Indiana border ...
, Wasserman obtained his BSc in economics from the
University of Pennsylvania
The University of Pennsylvania (also known as Penn or UPenn) is a private research university in Philadelphia. It is the fourth-oldest institution of higher education in the United States and is ranked among the highest-regarded universitie ...
in 1973, as well as his MA in Business & Applied Economics. He then moved to
Harvard University
Harvard University is a private Ivy League research university in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Founded in 1636 as Harvard College and named for its first benefactor, the Puritan clergyman John Harvard, it is the oldest institution of high ...
, where he obtained his MA in Statistics in 1974, and his PhD in Statistics in 1977 with the thesis, entitled "Stochastic Models for Directed Graphs" under supervision of
Frederick Mosteller
Charles Frederick Mosteller (December 24, 1916 – July 23, 2006) was an American mathematician, considered one of the most eminent statisticians of the 20th century. He was the founding chairman of Harvard's statistics department from 19 ...
.
[Stanley Wasserman, CV. January 2007](_blank)
at stat.indiana.edu. Accessed 02.02.2015
Wasserman started his career in 1974 at the National Bureau of Economics Research as Research Assistant and System Consultant in Statistics. After a year as an instructor at Harvard University, and as a Visiting Instructor 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 ...
, he started in 1977 as assistant professor at the
University of Minnesota
The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public land-grant research university in the Twin Cities of Minneapolis and Saint Paul, Minnesota, United States. ...
. In 1982 he moved to the
University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (U of I, Illinois, University of Illinois, or UIUC) is a public land-grant research university in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the Univer ...
, where he was appointed associate professor and in 1988 Professor of Psychology, Statistics, and Sociology. Beginning in 2004 he served as the James H. Rudy Professor of Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology at
Indiana University in Bloomington.
Wasserman was awarded the J. Parker Bursk Memorial Award in 1973 while at the University of Pennsylvania. He was elected 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 1991, and Fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1996.
Work
Social network analysis
In their 1994 "Advances in social network analysis," Wasserman and
Joseph Galaskiewicz address:
... the issue of how effectively to apply the latest developments in social network analysis to behavioural and social science disciplines. Topics examined include: ways to specify the network contents to be studied; how to select the method for representing network structures; how social network analysis has been used to study interorganizational relations via the resource dependence model; how to use a contact matrix for studying the spread of disease in epidemiology; and how cohesion and structural equivalence network theories relate to studying social influence. The book also offers some statistical models for social support networks.[Galaskiewicz and Wasserman (1994/2006)]
Books
* Wasserman, Stanley, and Faust, Katherine, ''Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications (Structural Analysis in the Social Sciences)'', (First Edition 1994) Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, UK, West 20th St., New York, USA, Melbourne, Madrid,
* Wasserman, Stanley, & Galaskiewicz, J.(eds). ''Advances in Social Network Analysis: Research from the Social and Behavioral Sciences''. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
* Carrington, P., Scott, J., & Wasserman, S. (eds). ''Models and Methods in Social Network Analysis''. New York: Cambridge University Press.
References
External links
Stanley WassermanDepartment of Statistics, Indiana University
Stanley WassermanDepartment of Psychological and Brain Science, Indiana University
Stanley WassermanInternational laboratory for Applied Network Research, National Research University – Higher School of Economics
Stanley WassermanMaster's programme 'Applied Statistics with Network Analysis', National Research University – Higher School of Economics
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1951 births
Living people
American statisticians
University of Pennsylvania alumni
Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
Harvard University faculty
University of Minnesota faculty
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign faculty
Indiana University faculty
People from Louisville, Kentucky
American people of Ukrainian-Jewish descent
Fellows of the American Statistical Association