Magda Peligrad is a Romanian mathematician and mathematical statistician known for her research in probability theory, and particularly on central limit theorems and stochastic processes.
[1][2] She works at the University of Cincinnati, where she is Distinguished Charles Phelps Taft Professor of Mathematical Sciences.
[3] By 1983 she was working at the Sapienza University of Rome and by 1984 she had arrived at Cincinnati,[4] where since 1988 she has supervised the dissertations of seven doctoral students.
[5] With Florence Merlevède and Sergey Utev, she is coauthor of the book Functional Gaussian Approximation for Dependent Structures (Oxford University Press, 2019).
[8] A conference on "limit theorems for dependent data and applications" was organized in her honor in Paris in 2010, celebrating her 60th birthday, by the researchers at four Parisian universities.