Luke Tierney is an American statistician and computer scientist. A fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics since 1988 and of the American Statistical Association since 1991, Tierney is currently a professor of statistics at the University of Iowa.[1] Through his past work on programming languages such as R and Lisp, Tierney now holds a position on the developing team known as the R Core.[2]
Education edit
Tierney earned his BA and MA in mathematical sciences from Johns Hopkins University in 1977 and later his PhD in operations research from Cornell University in 1980.[1] Formerly a statistics faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University and the University of Minnesota,[3] he now serves as the Ralph E. Wareham Professor of Mathematical Sciences at the University of Iowa, a position he has held since 2002.[1]
Work edit
In 1990, Tierney wrote the XLispStat package using C and Lisp[3] and has since published works such as LISP-STAT: An Object-Oriented Environment for Statistical Computing and Dynamic Graphics (Wiley Series in Probability and Statistics) describing its design and use.[4]
Tierney has also made contributions in areas such as reference counting, vectors, and compilation for the R programming language and environment.[1] During his time working with R, he has also become part of the R Core, a team of developers with write access to the R source. His work on Markov chains, Bioconductor, Lisp-stat and the Metropolis–Hastings algorithm have all been highly cited.
Positions, awards and recognition edit
- Current member of the R Core Team
- Former editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics from 2004 to 2006[3]
- American Statistical Association
- Fellow since 1991
- Recipient of the 2019 Statistical Computing and Graphics Award[3]
- Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Fellow since 1988
- Former elected council member from 1995 to 1998[5]
- University of Iowa
- Ralph E. Wareham Professor since 2002
- Former chair of the statistics department from 2004 to 2014[3]
References edit
- ^ a b c d "Luke Tierney". University of Iowa. March 8, 2021.
- ^ "Contributors". R Project.
- ^ a b c d e "People News February 2019". Amstat News. February 1, 2019.
- ^ Tierney, Luke. "Lisp-Stat Information". University of Iowa.
- ^ "Past Elected Council Members". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. 2021.