11 Facts About Philip Dawid

Alexander Philip Dawid is Emeritus Professor of Statistics of the University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Darwin College, Cambridge.

Philip Dawid has made fundamental contributions to both the philosophical underpinnings and the practical applications of statistics.

Philip Dawid's theory of conditional independence is a keystone of modern statistical theory and methods, and he has demonstrated its usefulness in a host of applications, including computation in probabilistic expert systems, causal inference, and forensic identification.

Philip Dawid was lecturer in statistics at University College London from 1969 to 1978.

Philip Dawid was Professor of Statistics at City University, London until 1981, when he returned to UCL as a reader, becoming Pearson Professor of Statistics there in 1982.

Philip Dawid moved to the University of Cambridge where he was appointed Professor of Statistics in 2007, retiring in 2013.

Philip Dawid was elected a member of the International Statistical Institute in 1978, and a Chartered Statistician of the Royal Statistical Society in 1993.

Philip Dawid was editor of Biometrika from 1992 to 1996 and President of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis in 2000.

Philip Dawid is an elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Philip Dawid received the 1977 George W Snedecor Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies.

Philip Dawid was awarded the 1978 Guy Medal in Bronze and the 2001 Guy Medal in Silver by the Royal Statistical Society.