Adrian Smith (statistician)
Sir Adrian Smith | |
|---|---|
| 63rd President of the Royal Society | |
| In office 30 November 2020 – 1 December 2025 | |
| Preceded by | Venki Ramakrishnan |
| Succeeded by | Paul Nurse |
| Personal details | |
| Born | Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith 9 September 1946 Dawlish, Devon, England |
| Scientific career | |
| Alma mater | University of Cambridge University College London |
| Awards | Guy Medal (Bronze, 1977) (Silver, 1993) (Gold, 2016) |
| 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 | Chris Holmes David Spiegelhalter Mike West |
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Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith, FRS (born 9 September 1946) is a British statistician who was chief executive of the Alan Turing Institute from 2018 to 2023 and president of the Royal Society from 2020 to 2025.