Larry A. Shepp

Professor of Statistics

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Research Interests: automatic pattern recognition, connectedness of random graphs, genetics: the problem of closed loop control of diabetes, mathematics of finance, probabilistic models for phase transitions, probabilistic, combinatorial, and statistical analysis of models for problems arising in physics, engineering, and communications: computed tomography

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Professor Larry Shepp passed away on April 23, 2013, at the age of 76.

For those interested in honoring Larry’s life and acquaintance, his family requests that, in lieu of flowers, a donation be made in Larry’s name to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation at http://jdrf.org.

Education

PhD, Mathematics, Princeton University, 1961
MA, Mathematics, Princeton University, 1960
BS Appl Math, Polytechnic Institute of Brooklyn, 1958

Academic Positions Held

University of Pennsylvania: 2010-2013, Rutger’s University: 1997-2010 (named Board of Governor’s Professor, 2004), Columbia University: 1973-1997, Stanford University: 1978-1992

Other Positions

Distinguished Member of Technical Staff Bell Laboratories, 1962-96
Member of Scientific Board Resonex Inc, 1983-84
Member of Scientific Board American Science and Engineering Inc, 1974-75
Mathematician in Radiology Service Columbia Presbyterian Hospital, 1974-96
Co-Editor: International Journal of Imaging Systems and Technology

Visiting Positions

Extended leaves in: Moscow, USSR (1965), Stanford University (1968-1992), Mittag-Leffler Institute, Sweden (1973), MIT (1975), Simon Bolivar University Venezuela (1982), Australia (U. New South Wales, 1986, ANU, 1997)

Research

Philip A. Ernst, Larry Shepp, Abraham J. Wyner (2017), Yule’s “Nonsense Correlation” Solved!, The Annals of Statistics, 45 (4), pp. 1789-1809.
Philip A. Ernst, Lawrence D. Brown, Larry Shepp, Robert L. Wolpert (2017), Stationary Gaussian Markov Processes as Limits of Stationary Autoregressive Time Series, Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 155 (), pp. 180-186.
Philip A. Ernst, Dean P. Foster, Larry Shepp (2013), How to Retire Early, Journal of Applied Probability, 51.2 ().
A. Arlotto, R. Chen, Larry Shepp, J. Michael Steele (2011), On-Line Selection of Alternating Subsequences from a Random Sample, Journal of Applied Probability, 48, 1114-1132..
Larry Shepp and Kambiz Farahmand (2011), Expected number of real zeros of a random polynomial with independent identically distributed symmetric long-tailed coefficients, Theory of Probability and its Applications, 55, 196-204.
Larry Shepp (2010), Probability problems of Dobrushin type, Moscow Math Journal, 10, 807-810.
Larry Shepp (2009), Updating Hardy, Littlewood and Pólya with Linear Programming, The Mathematics of Preference, Choice, and Order, 3, 409-420.
Moe Z. Win, Pedro C. Pinto, Larry Shepp (2009), A mathematical theory of network interference and its applications, IEEE Ultra-Wide Bandwidth (UWB) Technology & Emerging Applications, 97(2), 205-230.
Morgan Evans, Robert Perlmutter, Larry Shepp (2008), Representing a function of two variables as a superposition over angles of ridge functions with a given shape via linear programming, J. Statistical Planning and Inference, 138, 2662-2680.
Ilie Grigorescu, Robert Chen, Larry Shepp (2007), Optimal strategy for the Vardi casino with interest payments, J. Applied Probability, 44, 199-211.
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Philip A. Ernst, Larry Shepp, Abraham J. Wyner (2017), Yule’s “Nonsense Correlation” Solved!, The Annals of Statistics, 45 (4), pp. 1789-1809.

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Awards and Honors

(Posthumous) Co-recipient of the 2014 IEEE Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award 2014

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