Jon A. Wellner

Wellner was born in Portland, Oregon, and grew up in various cities in the US. Wellner attended Ogden High School in Ogden, Utah and graduated in 1963. He went on to attend the University of Idaho in Moscow, Idaho, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and Physics in 1968. After a brief stint in graduate school at Yale University in 1969-1970 and serving in the U.S. Army Signal Corps from 1969 to 1971. He returned to graduate study in statistics at the University of Washington and received his Ph.D. in 1975 with Galen Shorack as his advisor.[2][3]

Wellner worked as an Assistant Professor and associate professor of statistics at the University of Rochester from 1975 to 1983, after which he moved back to the University of Washington in Seattle, Washington and became a professor of statistics. He has remained at the University of Washington and he retired in 2020.[4]

Wellner was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1982, a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1986, and a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2015. He served as the Executive Editor of Statistical Science. Wellner was President of Institute of Mathematical Statistics between 2016 and 2017. In 2010, he was made a Knight of the Order of the Netherlands Lion.[2][3]

• Vaart, A. W. van der; Wellner, Jon A. (1996). Weak convergence and empirical processes. New York: Springer. ISBN 0-387-94640-3. OCLC 33664331.
• Bickel, Peter J.; Klaassen, Chris A.J.; Ritov, Ya'acov; Wellner, Jon A. (1993). Efficient and adaptive estimation for semiparametric models. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 0-8018-4541-6. OCLC 26767877.
• Shorack, Galen R.; Wellner, Jon A. (2009). Empirical processes with applications to statistics. Philadelphia, Pa.: Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics. ISBN 978-0-89871-901-7. OCLC 693777479.