Hal S. Stern

Hal Stern is an American statistician, with a focus on Bayesian statistics and is one of the authors of the textbook Bayesian Data Analysis.^{[citation needed]}

Hal S. Stern
Nationality	American
Title	Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor
Academic background
Education	Stanford University MIT
Academic work
Discipline	Statistics Forensic Evidence
Institutions	University of California, Irvine

Stern has developed several statistical methods in forensic science.^[1] He also participates in the Forensic Science Advisory Committee of the American Statistical Association.^[2] He is a part of the leadership team of the Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE).^[3][1]

He is the Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Irvine (UCI) and Chancellor's Professor in the Department of Statistics.^[4]

Stern is a fellow of the American Statistical Association,^[5] American Association for the Advancement of Science, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics.^[6]