Past Chairs

Matthew Stephens, Ralph W. Gerard Professor

MATTHEW STEPHENS

2022-

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


Dan Nicolae, Professor and Current Chair

DAN NICOLAE

2016-2022

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


Yali Amit, Professor, Departments of Statistics, Computer Science, and the College

YALI AMIT

2010-2016

Professor, Departments of Statistics, Computer Science, and the College


Stephen M. Stigler, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics 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, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Statistics, Mathematics, and the College

STEVEN P. LALLEY

2001-2005

Professor, Departments of Statistics, Mathematics, and the College


John D. MacArthur Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus, 
Department of Statistics 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, Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Professor Emeritus, 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, 1924–2011, Ralph and Mary Otis Isham Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus

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, 1925–2011, Professor Emeritus, Departments of Statistics, Mathematics, and the College

PATRICK BILLINGSLEY

1980-1983

1925–2011
Professor Emeritus, Departments of Statistics, Mathematics, and the College


David L. Wallace, 1928-2017, Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics and the College

DAVID L. WALLACE

1977-1980

1928-2017
Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics and the College


Michael D. Perlman, Professor Emeritus, Department of Statistics, University of Washington

MICHAEL D. PERLMAN

1974-1977

Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Washington


William H. Kruskal, 1919–2005, Ernest DeWitt Burton Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus

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, 1917-1971, Professor

LEONARD JIMMIE SAVAGE

1957-1960

1917-1971
American mathematician and statistician


W. Allen Wallis, 1912-1998, Professor

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