Bernard Silverman
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The Reverend Professor Bernard Silverman FRS FAcSS |
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| Born | 22 February 1952 |
| Residence | UK |
| Nationality | British |
| Fields | Statistician |
| Institutions | University of Oxford |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Thesis | Data Analysis: Some Theory and Practice (1978) |
| Doctoral advisor | D. G. Kendall |
| Known for | density estimation, nonparametric regression, functional data analysis |
| Notable awards |
Mayhew Prize (1974) Smith's Prize (1976) Gold Medal International Mathematical Olympiad Guy Medal (Bronze, 1984) (Silver, 1997) COPSS Presidents' Award (1991) |
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Fellow of the Royal Society
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Bernard Walter Silverman, FRS, FAcSS (born 22 February 1952) is a British statistician and Anglican Priest. He was Master of St Peter's College, Oxford from 1 October 2003 to 31 December 2009. He is a member of the Statistics Department at Oxford University, and is also attached to the Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment, and the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance. He has been a member of the Council of Oxford University and of the Council of the Royal Society. He was briefly President of the Royal Statistical Society in January 2010, a position from which he stood down upon announcement of his appointment as Chief Scientific Advisor to the Home Office.
Silverman was ordained in the Church of England as a deacon in 1999 and as a priest in 2000. From 1999 to 2005, he was an honorary assistant curate of Cotham Parish Church in the Diocese of Bristol. Between 2005-2009, he held Permission to Officiate in the Diocese of Oxford. Then, from 2009 to 2015, he was an honorary assistant curate of St Giles' Church and St Margaret's Church, Oxford. Since 2015, he has held Permission to Officiate in both the Diocese of Oxford and in the Diocese of London.
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