Peter J. Bickel

Peter John Bickel (born 1940) is an American statistician^[1] and Professor of Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley.^[2] Bickel has made contributions to bootstrapping, robust statistics, machine learning, and other areas of statistics.^[1]

Peter John Bickel
Born	1940 (age 84–85) Bucharest, Romania
Alma mater	University of California, Berkeley (PhD)
Awards	MacArthur Fellow (1984) COPSS Presidents' Award (1981)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Thesis	Asymptotically Nonparametric Statistical Inference in the Multivariate Cases
Doctoral advisor	Erich Leo Lehmann
Doctoral students	Donald Andrews Jianqing Fan Katerina Kechris Elizaveta Levina C. F. Jeff Wu
Other notable students	Donald Andrews Mark van der Laan

Education and career

Bickel studied physics at the California Institute of Technology.^[3] He graduated from University of California, Berkeley, with a Ph.D., in 1963, where he studied under Erich Leo Lehmann.^[4]

His students include C.F. Jeff Wu, Jianqing Fan, Katerina Kechris, Elizaveta Levina, and Donald Andrews.^[5]

Personal

He married Nancy Kramer in 1964; they have two children.^[6]

Awards

• 1970 Guggenheim Fellow^[7]
• 1973 Fellow of the American Statistical Association^[8]
• 1981 the recipient of COPSS Presidents' Award^[9]
• 1984 MacArthur Fellow
• 1986 Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences^[10]
• 1986 Member of the National Academy of Sciences^[11]
• 1986 Honorary Doctorate degree from Hebrew University, Jerusalem
• 1995 Foreign member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences^[12]
• 2006 Commander of the Order of Orange-Nassau^[13]
• 2013 R. A. Fisher Lectureship^[14]
• 2014 Honorary Doctorate degree from ETH Zurich^[15]