Jon August Wellner (born August 17, 1945) is an American statistician known for his contributions to the fields of statistical inference, empirical process theory, and survival analysis.
[1] Wellner was born in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in various cities in the US.
After a brief stint in graduate school at Yale University in 1969–1970 and serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1969 to 1971, he returned to graduate study in statistics at the University of Washington and received his Ph.D. in 1975 with Galen Shorack as his advisor.
[5] Wellner was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) in 1983, a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 1994, and a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) in 2006; he became an elected member of the International Statistical Institute in 2010.
[3][4] A conference in honor of Wellner's 65th birthday was held in July of 2010.