Adrian Smith (statistician)
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Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith, PRS (born 9 September 1946) is a British statistician who is chief executive of the Alan Turing Institute and president of the Royal Society.[2]
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Sir Adrian Smith | |
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63rd President of the Royal Society | |
Assumed office 30 November 2020 | |
Preceded by | Venki Ramakrishnan |
Personal details | |
Born | Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith (1946-09-09) 9 September 1946 (age 77) Dawlish, Devon, England |
Residence | UK |
Alma mater | University of Cambridge University College London |
Awards | Guy Medal (Bronze, 1977) (Silver, 1993) (Gold, 2016) |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | Imperial College London Queen Mary, University of London |
Thesis | Bayesian inference for the linear model (1972) |
Doctoral advisor | Dennis Lindley[1] |
Doctoral students | David Spiegelhalter Chris Holmes |
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