Arif Zaman is a Pakistani mathematician, academic scientist, and a retired professor of Statistics and Mathematics from Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan.
Zaman attended Harvey Mudd College, where he completed his B.S.
in Applied Mathematics in 1977 at the Claremont Graduate School, and his PhD in Statistics at Stanford University in 1981.
[3] In his doctoral thesis, he studied de Finetti's theorem and its possible turn out in Markov chain.
[clarification needed] His dissertation was supervised by Persi Diaconis.