Adrian Smith (statistician)

Sir Adrian Smith PRS
63rd President of the Royal Society
Incumbent
Assumed office 30 November 2020
Preceded by	Venki Ramakrishnan
Personal details
Born	Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith (1946-09-09) 9 September 1946 (age 77) Dawlish, Devon, England
Residence	UK
Alma mater	University of Cambridge University College London
Awards	Guy Medal (Bronze, 1977) (Silver, 1993) (Gold, 2016)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	Imperial College London Queen Mary, University of London
Thesis	Bayesian inference for the linear model  (1972)
Doctoral advisor	Dennis Lindley[1]
Doctoral students	David Spiegelhalter Chris Holmes

Sir Adrian Frederick Melhuish Smith, PRS (born 9 September 1946) is a British statistician who is chief executive of the Alan Turing Institute and president of the Royal Society.^[2]