Robin Sibson

Robin Sibson
Born(1944-05-04)4 May 1944
Died19 March 2017(2017-03-19) (aged 72)
Alma materUniversity of Cambridge
Known forNatural neighbour interpolation
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Bath
Doctoral advisorDavid George Kendall
Doctoral studentsGuy Nason

Robin Sibson (4 May 1944 – 19 March 2017) was a British mathematician and educator.

He was a fellow of King's College, Cambridge, professor of statistics at the University of Bath and then vice-chancellor of the University of Kent. He was chief executive of the Higher Education Statistics Agency from 2001 until 2009. He was also a member of the Committee for Higher Education and Research (CC-HER), the predecessor to the Steering Committee for Higher Education and Research (CDESR).

He died on 19 March 2017 at the age of 72.

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.