Stephen Fienberg

Stephen Fienberg (born November 27, 1942) is the Maurice Falk Professor of Statistics and Social Science in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University.

Born in Toronto, Canada, Steve earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of Toronto in 1964, an M.A. in Statistics in 1965 and a Ph.D. in Statistics in 1968 at Harvard University. He has been on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty since 1980 and became a U.S. citizen in 1998. He has authored more than 275 papers and 6 books, has advised at least 31 students and can claim at least 67 descendants in his mathematical genealogy. Steve is a recipient of the COPSS Presidents' award, an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences, an elected fellow of the Royal Society of Canada, an elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the American Statistical Association and a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is one of the top social statisticians in the world, and is well-known for his work in log-linear modeling for categorical data. He has authored and coauthored books on categorical data analysis, US census adjustment, and forensic science.

Professor Fienberg lives in Pittsburgh with his wife, Joyce. He has two grown sons, Anthony and Howard, and four granddaughters, Selena, Tiffany, Victoria, and Sophia. One of his greatest passions is to fly to Paris to spend time with his granddaughters.

External links

* [http://www.stat.cmu.edu/~fienberg/ Personal page at Carnegie Mellon]