Honorary Degrees awarded by the Department of Statistics
Terrence Speed
Professor, Head of the Bioinformatics Division at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, in Melbourne, Australia, and Department of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Science
Five Hundred Nineteenth Convocation
June 14, 2014
David Donoho
Anne T. and Robert M. Bass Professor in the Humanities and Sciences, and Professor of Statistics
Doctor of Science
Five Hundredth Convocation
October 9, 2009
Grace Wahba
I. J. Schoenberg-Hilldale Professor of Statistics, Professor of Biostatistics and Medical Informatics, and Professor of Computer Sciences (by courtesy), University of Wisconsin, School of Medicine and Public Health
Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Nineth Convocation
June 8, 2007
Persi Diaconis
The Mary V. Sunseri Professor and Professor of Mathematics, Stanford University
Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Seventy Third Convocation
June 13, 2003
David Aldous
Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Sixty Second Convocation
November 2, 2000
Bradley Efron
Professor in the Departments of Statistics and Health Research and Policy, Stanford University
Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Thirty-ninth Convocation
June 9, 1995
Ulf Grenander
L. Herbert Ballou University Professor Emeritus of Applied Mathematics, Brown University
Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Thirty-fifth Convocation
June 10, 1994
Charles Stein
Professor Emeritus of Statistics, Stanford University
Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Twenty-sixth Convocation
June 12, 1992
Erich L. Lehmann
Professor of Statistics, University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Science
Four Hundred Twenty-third Convocation
October 3, 1991
Frederick Mosteller
Professor of Mathematical Statistics, Harvard University
Doctor of Science
Three Hundred Forty-sixth Convocation
October 26, 1973
John Wilder Tukey
Professor of Mathematics and Statistics, Princeton University, and Bell Telephone Laboratories
Doctor of Science
Three Hundred Twenty-eighth Convocation
June 13, 1969
Maurice Stevenson Bartlett
Professor and Head, Department of Statistics, University College, London, England
Doctor of Science
Three Hundred Fourteenth Convocation
June 10, 1966
Jerzy Neyman
Director of the Statistical Laboratory, and Research Professor, University of California, Berkeley
Doctor of Science
Two Hundred Eighty-second Convocation
June 12, 1959
Harold Hotelling
Professor of Statistics, University of North Carolina
Doctor of Laws
Two Hundred Sixty-seventh Convocation
November 11, 1955
Sir Ronald Aylmer Fisher
Arthur Balfour Professor of Genetics, University of Cambridge, England
Doctor of Science
Two Hundred Fifty-first Convocation
June 13, 1952