Frederi Viens

Frederi G. Viens is an American statistician, mathematician, and academic. He is a professor in the Department of Statistics at Rice University, a founding member of the Diverse Rotations Improve Valuable Ecosystem Services Project, a senior research contributor to the Sustainability of Agrarian Societies in the Lake Chad Basin initiative, and moderator of the long-term scientific committee for the Seminar on Stochastic Processes conference series. Viens' primary research areas are probability theory, stochastic processes, quantitative finance, and Bayesian statistics. His research collaboration has focused on different areas, including climate change, agro-ecology, agricultural economics, development economics, nuclear physics, and human medicine. He was named a Franklin Fellow at the US State Department in 2010 and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2013. His work has been published in journals, including ''Annals of Probability'', ''Annals of Statistics'' and ''American Journal of Agricultural Economics''. Provided by Wikipedia