Andrew R. Barron

Andrew R. Barron is an American statistician and information theorist. He was the Charles C. and Dorothea S. Dilley Professor of Statistics and Data Science at Yale University until his retirement in 2024.

Education and career

Barron received a B.S. in Electrical Engineering and Mathematical Sciences from Rice University in 1981, and a M.S. (1982) and Ph.D. (1985) in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University, where his doctoral advisor was Thomas M. Cover.

After completing his doctorate, Barron joined the faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, where he held appointments in the departments of Statistics and Electrical and Computer Engineering. where he served as Chair of the Department of Statistics from 2001 to 2006.

Awards and honors

Claude E. Shannon Award, IEEE Information Theory Society (2024) Medallion Lecture, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2005) Browder J. Thompson Memorial Prize, IEEE (1992) IEEE Fellow