Arif Zaman

Arif Zaman
Residence	United States Pakistan
Nationality	United States Pakistan
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, Ph.D., is a Pakistani mathematician, an academic scientist and a professor of Statistics and Mathematics at Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences, Lahore, Pakistan. Before joining LUMS in 1994, he also served Statistics Department at Purdue University and Florida State University .

Zaman attended the Harvey Mudd College where he completed his B.S. in Mathematics in 1976. He completed his M.A. Applied Mathematics in 1977, and PhD Statistics from Stanford University in 1981. In his doctoral thesis he studied de Finetti's theorem and its possible turn out in Markov chain. His dissertation was supervised by Persi Diaconis.

Zaman's recent research has been in the field of pseudo-random number generation which is now widely used in modern computing needs. He has also published papers on generalisations of Markov chains, and on using computers to solve various theoretical problems in mathematics and statistics. His publications have been in various journals including: The Annals of Probability, Mathematics of Computation, Journal of Applied Probability, and Journal of Statistical Computation.

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