Hélène Massam

Hélène Menexia Massam (died August 22, 2020[1]) was a statistician known for her research on the Wishart distribution and on graphical models. She was a professor of mathematics and statistics at York University in Canada.[2][3]

Education and career

Massam earned a bachelor's degree from McGill University in 1971. She stayed on at McGill for graduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1973 and completing her doctorate in 1977.[3] Her dissertation, Mathematical Programming with Cones, concerned numerical analysis and was supervised by Sanjo Zlobec.[4] She joined the York University faculty in 1984, and taught there for 35 years until her death.[1]

Recognition

In 2008, Massam was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics "for contributions to Wishart distributions and to graphical models".[3][5]

References

1. The York University community mourns the loss of long-serving professor Hélène Massam, York University Department of Mathematics and Statistics, September 7, 2020 – via Facebook
2. Faculty, York University Mathematics and Statistics, retrieved 2018-02-10
3. "Alumnotes" (PDF), McGill News: 51–52, Winter 2008–2009, archived from the original (PDF) on 2010-03-24
4. Hélène Massam at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
5. 2008 IMS Fellows Named, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, archived from the original on May 7, 2010, retrieved 2018-02-10