Arif Zaman
Arif Zaman | |
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| Alma mater | Stanford University Harvey Mudd College Claremont Graduate University |
| Known for | Contributions in pseudo-random number generation and his contribution to the field of Computer science |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Purdue University Florida State University Lahore University of Management Sciences |
| Doctoral advisor | Persi Diaconis |
| Other academic advisors | Jerome Spanier |
Arif Zaman is a Pakistani mathematician and retired professor of Statistics and Mathematics at the Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) in Lahore, Pakistan, where he served from 1994 to 2017. He is known for his contributions to pseudorandom number generation, particularly the co-development of add-with-carry and subtract-with-borrow generators with George Marsaglia. His doctoral dissertation, supervised by Persi Diaconis, was titled Finite Forms of de Finetti's Theorem for Markov Chains. Before joining LUMS, he served in the Statistics departments at Purdue University and Florida State University.