doctoral_advisor birth_place nationality fields workplaces birth_date article_title name alma_mater
frederick mosteller toronto , canada canadian statistics carnegie mellon university 27 november 1942 stephen fienberg
 stephen e. fienberg harvard university university of toronto
stephen fienberg

stephen elliott fienberg -lrb- born november 27 , 1942 -rrb- is the maurice falk university professor of statistics and social science in the department of statistics , the machine learning department , heinz college , and cylab at carnegie mellon university .
born in toronto , canada , fienberg 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 , served as dean of the dietrich college of humanities and social sciences , and became a u.s. citizen in 1998 .
he has authored more than 400 publications , including six books , has advised more than 30 ph.d. students , and can claim more than 80 descendants in his mathematical genealogy .
fienberg 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 winner of its wilks award , 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 , the statistical analysis of network data , and methodology for disclosure limitation .
he has authored and coauthored books on categorical data analysis , us census adjustment , and forensic science .
he is a founder and editor-in-chief of the `` journal of privacy and confidentiality '' .
fienberg was selected to be the r.a. fisher lecturer in 2015 .
