Adrian Smith (statistician)
Sir Adrian Smith President of the Royal Society | |
|---|---|
| Assumed office 30 November 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Venki Ramakrishnan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith 9 September 1946 Queen Mary, University of London |
| Thesis | Bayesian inference for the linear model (1972) |
| Doctoral advisor | Dennis Lindley[1] |
| Doctoral students | David Spiegelhalter Chris Holmes |
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]
Early life and education
Smith was born on 9 September 1946 in Dawlish. He was educated at Selwyn College, Cambridge, and University College London, where his PhD supervisor was Dennis Lindley.
Career
From 1977 until 1990, he was professor of statistics and head of department of mathematics at the
Smith is a member of the governing body of the
He is a former president of the Royal Statistical Society. He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2001. His FRS citation included "his diverse contributions to Bayesian statistics. His monographs are the most comprehensive available and his work has had a major impact on the development of monitoring tools for clinicians."
In
In mathematics and statistics education, Smith led the team which produced the Smith Report on secondary mathematics education in the United Kingdom.
In April 2008, Smith was appointed as director general of science and research at the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills (since merged with other departments to form the UK's BEIS). He took up his post in September 2008. His annual remuneration for this role is £160,000.[6].
Smith was knighted in the 2011 New Year Honours.[7] In 2023 he was a guest on The Life Scientific on BBC Radio 4.[8]
Honorary doctorates
In 2011, Smith was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Science from
Bibliography
- Gelfand, A. E.; Smith, A. F. M. (1990). "Sampling-Based Approaches to Calculating Marginal Densities". Journal of the American Statistical Association. 85 (410): 398–409. JSTOR 2289776.
- Gordon, N.J.; Salmond, D.J.; Smith, A.F.M. (1993). "Novel approach to nonlinear/non-Gaussian Bayesian state estimation". IEE Proceedings F - Radar and Signal Processing. 140 (2). Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET): 107. ISSN 0956-375X.
- . London, England: The Stationery Office.
See also
- List of Vice-Chancellors of the University of London
- List of presidents of the Royal Society
References
- ^ Adrian Smith at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "Sir Adrian Smith becomes President of the Royal Society".
- ^ "New Vice-Chancellor of the University of London". IQuad. Royal Holloway, University of London. 1 June 2012. Retrieved 31 July 2012.
- ^ "University of London appoints interim Vice-Chancellor". University of London. 8 June 2018. Retrieved 24 December 2018.
- ^ "Professor Sir Adrian Smith to stand down as Vice-Chancellor". University of London. Retrieved 19 November 2020.
- ^ "Top civil servant salary list published". Directgov. 1 June 2010. Archived from the original on 11 June 2011. Retrieved 14 June 2010.
- ^ "No. 59647". The London Gazette (Supplement). 31 December 2010. p. 1.
- ^ "The power of Bayesian statistics". Retrieved 7 February 2023.
- ^ "Honorary Degree Recipients Archives | Ohio State".
External links
- Making Mathematics Count (Smith report)
- There is a photograph at "Adrian F M Smith" on the Portraits of Statisticians page
- Dellaportas, Petros; Stephens, David A. (2020). "Interview with Professor Adrian FM Smith". International Statistical Review. 88 (2): 265–279. S2CID 225600734.