Biography

Born September 14, 1950 in Ravensburg (Germany). Childhood in Muensingen, a small town between Ulm and Stuttgart. Undergraduate at Heidelberg University and at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich.

Master's degree (Diplom) in Mathematics (1973), Ph.D in Mathematics (1977), both from ETH. Ph.D. Advisor:  P.J. Huber. Thesis topic: Estimation and Parameterization of Growth Curves.

1978-83 first academic appointment as Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, Stanford University, with a joint appointment in the Computation Research Group of the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center.

1981 Visiting Professor, Department of Applied Mathematics and Center for Computational Research in Economics and Management Science, MIT.

1983-84 Research Staff Member, IBM Zuerich Research Lab.

1984- Faculty member, Department of Statistics, University of Washington, Seattle, with an adjunct appointment in the Department of Computer Science and Engineering.

1994-2002 Chair, Department of Statistics

2006-  Divisional Dean of Natural Sciences

Ph.D students: John McDonald (1982), Trevor Hastie (1984), Deborah Donnell (1987), John Michalak (degree awarded posthumously, 1990), Chisheng Huang (1992), Steve McKinney (1995), Sylvain Sardy (1998), Jeremy Tantrum (2003), Rebecca Nugent (2007)

 



Contact information

Werner Stuetzle
Department of Statistics, Box 354322
University of Washington
Seattle, WA 98195-4322
206-685-7431 (ph)
206-685-7419 (fax)
wxs@stat.washington.edu
http://www.stat.washington.edu/wxs
2125 1st Ave #1902
Seattle, WA 98121
206-770-9566