
MATTHEW STEPHENS
2022-
Department Chair, Statistics
Ralph W. Gerard Professor, Departments of Statistics and Human Genetics, and the College

DAN NICOLAE
2016-2022
Professor, Departments of Statistics, Human Genetics, and Medicine; Section of Genetic Medicine;
Faculty Co-Director, Data Science Institute

YALI AMIT
2010-2016
Professor, Departments of Statistics, Computer Science, and the College

STEPHEN M. STIGLER
2005–2010, 1986–1992
Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Statistics and the College
Member: Committee on Conceptual and Historical Studies of Science

STEVEN P. LALLEY
2001-2005
Professor, Departments of Statistics, Mathematics, and the College

PETER MCCULLAGH
2001-Acting Chair, 1992-1998
John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor, Department of Statistics and the College

MICHAEL L. STEIN
1998-2000
Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor, Department of Statistics and the College

PAUL MEIER
1983–1986, 1973–1974, 1960–1966
1924–2011
Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Departments of Statistics, Pharmacological and Physiological Sciences, Medicine, and the College

PATRICK BILLINGSLEY
1980-1983
1925–2011
Professor Emeritus, Departments of Statistics, Mathematics, and the College

DAVID L. WALLACE
1977-1980
1928-2017
Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics and the College

MICHAEL D. PERLMAN
1974-1977
Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

WILLIAM H. KRUSKAL
1966-1972
1919–2005
Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and the College

LEONARD JIMMIE SAVAGE
1957-1960
1917-1971
American mathematician and statistician

W. ALLEN WALLIS
1949-1957
1912-1998
Dean of the University of Chicago School of Business
President of the University of Rochester
Chancellor of the University of Rochester