Nancy Reid

Who is Nancy Reid?

Nancy Margaret Reid is a Canadian theoretical statistician.

She was an associate professor at the University of British Columbia from 1980–5, then joined the University of Toronto and has remained there ever since, becoming a full professor in 1988.

Reid won the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1992, the Krieger–Nelson Prize in 1995, the Statistical Society of Canada Gold Medal in 2009, and the Statistical Society of Canada Distinguished Service Award in 2013, She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001. She was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1997 and of the Statistical Society of Canada in 2004–5.