17 Facts About Nancy Reid

Nancy Reid is a professor at the University of Toronto where she holds a Canada Research Chair in Statistical Theory.

In 2015 Reid became Director of the Canadian Institute for Statistical Sciences.

Nancy Reid has served as President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Statistical Society of Canada.

Nancy Reid is co-editor of the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.

In 1992, Nancy Reid received the COPSS Presidents' Award for outstanding contributions to statistics.

Nancy Reid is a Fellow of the Royal Society, the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and the Royal Society of Canada; a Foreign Associate of the National Academy of Sciences; and an Officer of the Order of Canada.

Nancy Reid did postdoctoral work with David Cox at the Imperial College London from 1979 to 1980.

From 1980 to 1985, Nancy Reid was an associate professor at the University of British Columbia.

Nancy Reid then joined the University of Toronto and has remained there ever since, becoming a full professor in 1988.

Nancy Reid was the first woman to hold a Canada Research Chair in statistics.

Nancy Reid has been the Director of CANSSI since 2015.

Nancy Reid served as Editor-in-Chief of The Canadian Journal of Statistics from 1995 to 1997 and the Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.

Nancy Reid served as President of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and of the Statistical Society of Canada.

In 2022, Nancy Reid won the Guy medal in Gold "for her pioneering work on higher-order approximate inference which provides a foundational basis for optimal information extraction from data, and has wide-ranging impact on the practice of data analysis".

Nancy Reid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001.

Nancy Reid is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Nancy Reid was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society in 2018.