2011 Challis Lecturer Larry Wasserman

Larry Wasserman is Professor in the Department of Statistics and the Machine Learning Department at Carnegie Mellon University.  He received his PhD from the University of Toronto 1988. He is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), the American Statistical Association (ASA), and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).  He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1999 and the CRM-SSC (Centre de recherches mathematiques de Montreal - Statistical Society of Canada) Prize in Statistics in 2002.  He is the founding editor of the Electronic Journal of Statistics.  He won the DeGroot Prize in 2006 for his book "All of Statistics: A Concise Course in Statistical Inference".