Stuart 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. 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.
Stuart A. Geman | |
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Geman lecturing on the Gibbs sampler | |
| Born | March 23, 1949 |
| Nationality | American |
| Alma mater | University of Michigan B.S. (1971) Dartmouth College M.S. (1973) Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. (1977) |
| Relatives | Donald Geman (brother) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Mathematics |
| Institutions | Brown University |
| Thesis | Stochastic Differential Equations with Smooth Mixing Processes (1977) |
| Doctoral advisor | Herman Chernoff Frank Kozin |
| Doctoral students | Barry R. Davis |
| Website | www |
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