Jeffrey Rosenthal is a professor in the Department of Statistics at the
University of Toronto. He received his BSc in Mathematics, Physics,
and Computer Science from the University of Toronto at the age of 20;
his PhD in Mathematics from Harvard University at the age of 24; and
tenure in the Department of Statistics at the University of Toronto
at the age of 29. For his research, he was awarded the 2006 CRM-SSC
Prize, and also the 2007
COPSS Presidents' Award,
the most prestigious honour bestowed by the Committee
of Presidents of Statistical Societies. For his lecturing, he received
a Harvard University Teaching Award in 1991, and an Arts and Science
Outstanding Teaching Award at the University of Toronto in 1998.
Rosenthal's book for the general public, Struck by Lightning:
The Curious World of Probabilities, was a bestseller in Canada, and
is being published in a total of fifteen countries.
Rosenthal has also published two textbooks about probability theory, and
over fifty research papers, many related to the field of Markov chain
Monte Carlo randomised computer algorithms. He has also worked as a
computer game programmer, musician, and improvisational comedy performer,
and is fluent in French. He maintains the web site probability.ca.
Despite being born on Friday the thirteenth, Rosenthal has been a very
fortunate person.
[contact me /
Full Bio /
C.V. /
Home Page]