Stanford University - Persi Diaconis

Education

B.S. in Mathematics, College of the City of New York (1971)
M.A. in Mathematical Statistics, Harvard University (1972)
Ph.D. in Mathematical Statistics, Harvard University (1974)
Ph.D. Dissertation: Weak and Strong Averages in Probability and the Theory of Numbers

Assistant Professor of Statistics, Stanford University (1974-79)
Research Staff Member, AT&T Bell Laboratories (1978-79)
Associate Professor of Statistics, Stanford University (1979-80)
Visiting Professor, Department of Statistics, Harvard University (1981-82)
Visiting Professor, Department of Mathematics, Harvard University, M.I.T. (1985-86)
Professor of Statistics, Stanford University (1981-87)
George Vasmer Leverett Professor ofMathematics, Harvard University (1987-1997)
David Duncan Professor, Department of Mathematics and ORIE, Cornell University (1996-1998)
Mary Sunseri Professor, Department of Statistics and Professor of Mathematics
at Stanford University (1998-present)
Fellow, Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, 1999-2000

Statistical Consultant to Scientific American on various aspects of paranormal
phenomena, 1972 - 1980
Statistical Consultant to Jet Propulsion Laboratories: Quantifying Order of Magnitude
Estimates in Deep Space Net, Summer 1974
Statistical Consultant to Bell Telephone Laboratories, Murray Hill, New Jersey, 1974 - present
Statistical Consultant to Stanford Linear Accelerator, Summer 1977 - present
Statistical Consultant to Teledyne, Cryptography Division, 1993-1999