Stuart Geman

Stuart A. Geman
Geman lecturing on the Gibbs sampler
Born (1949-03-23) March 23, 1949 (age 75)
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of Michigan B.S. (1971)
Dartmouth College M.S. (1973)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. (1977)
RelativesDonald Geman (brother)
Scientific career
FieldsMathematics
InstitutionsBrown University
Thesis Stochastic Differential Equations with Smooth Mixing Processes  (1977)
Doctoral advisorHerman Chernoff
Frank Kozin
Doctoral studentsBarry R. Davis
Websitewww.dam.brown.edu/people/geman/

Stuart Alan Geman (born March 23, 1949) is an American mathematician, known for influential contributions to computer vision, statistics, probability theory, machine learning, and the neurosciences.[1][2][3][4] He and his brother, Donald Geman, are well known for proposing the Gibbs sampler, and for the first proof of convergence of the simulated annealing algorithm.[5][6]

  1. ^ Thomas P. Ryan & William H. Woodall (2005). "The Most-Cited Statistical Papers". Journal of Applied Statistics. 32 (5): 461–474. doi:10.1080/02664760500079373. S2CID 109615204.
  2. ^ S. Kotz & N.L. Johnson (1997). Breakthroughs in Statistics, Volume III. New York, NY: Springer Verlag.
  3. ^ [Wikipedia] List of important publications in computer science.
  4. ^ Sharon Bertsch Mcgrayne (2011). The theory that would not die. New York and London: Yale University Press.
  5. ^ S. Geman; D. Geman (1984). "Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions, and the Bayesian Restoration of Images". IEEE Transactions on Pattern Analysis and Machine Intelligence. 6 (6): 721–741. doi:10.1109/TPAMI.1984.4767596. PMID 22499653. S2CID 5837272.
  6. ^ Google Scholar: Stochastic Relaxation, Gibbs Distributions and the Bayesian Restoration.