Stephen Elliott Fienberg (27 November 1942 – 14 December 2016) was a professor emeritus[2] (formerly the Maurice Falk University Professor of Statistics and Social Science) in the Department of Statistics, the Machine Learning Department, Heinz College, and Cylab at Carnegie Mellon University.
[3][4] Fienberg was the founding co-editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application[5] and of the Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality.
[1][7] Fienberg was on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty from 1980 and served as Dean of the Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences.
[8] He authored more than 400 publications, including six books, advised more than 30 Ph.D. students, and could claim more than 105 descendants in his mathematical genealogy.
[8] In 2015, he received the Jerome Sacks Award for Cross-Disciplinary Research from the National Institute of Statistical Sciences,[21] and the R. A. Fisher Lectureship from COPSS in 2015.