Adrian Smith (statistician)
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.
Sir Adrian Smith PRS | |
|---|---|
| 63rd President of the Royal Society | |
| Assumed office 30 November 2020 | |
| Preceded by | Venki Ramakrishnan |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith 9 September 1946 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 |
| Doctoral students | David Spiegelhalter Chris Holmes |
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