Stanley Wasserman, PhD

Stanley Wasserman is Rudy Professor of Sociology, Psychology, and Statistics in the Departments of Sociology and Psychology at Indiana. He has held faculty positions at Carnegie-Mellon University, University of Minnesota, and University of Illinois, in the disciplines of Statistics, Psychology, and Sociology; in addition, at Illinois, he was a part-time faculty member in the Beckman Institute of Advanced Science and Technology, and has had visiting appointments at Columbia University and University of Melbourne. He was educated at the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard University in the 1970's.

He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society, and an honorary fellow of the American Statistical Association and the American Association for the Advancement of Science. He has been an Associate Editor of a variety of statistics and methodological journals, as well as the Book Review Editor of Chance. His research has been supported over the years by NSF, ONR, and NIMH. He is known for his work on statistical models for social networks and for his text, co-authored with Katherine Faust, Social Network Analysis: Methods and Applications. His other books have been published by Sage Publications and Cambridge University Press. He teaches courses on applied statistics and sociological and psychological methods. He has been busy here in Bloomington helping to create IU's new Department of Statistics, and is Director of the new Indiana Statistical Consulting Center.