John Michael Steele is C.F. Koo Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, and he was previously affiliated with Stanford University, Columbia University and Princeton University.
In 1975 Steele suggested the term shattering for the process defined by Vapnik and Chervonenkis in 1969. His current interests include gambling, martingale, and mathematical finance.
Steele was elected the 2009 president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He has travelled around the globe speaking and is also very interested in the world around him in Philadelphia.
He has won various awards which include;
Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards Fellow, Institute for Mathematical Statistics, 1984; Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1989; Frank Wilcoxon Prize, American Society for Quality Control and the American Statistical Association, 1990
His books include:
- The Cauchy–Schwarz Master Class: An Introduction to the Art of Mathematical Inequalities
- Stochastic Calculus and Financial Applications
- Probability Theory and Combinatorial Optimization
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