2026 Stephen E. Fienberg: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	81	131	74	350	56558
Engineering and Technology	81	480	162	365	56844

Research.com Recognitions

2004 - Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
2004 - Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada Academy of Science
2000 - Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award, American Statistical Association (ASA)
1999 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
1984 - Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1982 - COPSS Presidents' Award
1980 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
1972 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Stephen E. Fienberg was affiliated with Carnegie Mellon University in the United States. Their research spanned multiple disciplines, primarily focusing on Engineering and Computer Science. Within these fields, the subfields most frequently associated with their work included Artificial Intelligence, Molecular Biology, Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality, Building and Construction, and Management Science and Operations Research.

Their main topics of research covered diverse areas such as Traffic and Road Safety, Traffic Prediction and Management Techniques, Algorithms and Data Compression, Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies, Traffic control and management, Machine Learning in Bioinformatics, and Machine Learning and Algorithms.

Among the recent papers attributed to them are:

Characterizing lane changing behavior and identifying extreme lane changing traits, 2022, Transportation Letters
On Privacy in the Age of COVID-19, 2020, Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality
Travel Time Reliability, 2022, Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online
Modeling Framework for Predicting Lane Change Intensity at Freeway Weaving Segments, 2023, Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Application of Markov Structure of Genomes to Outlier Identification and Read Classification, 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

The frequent coauthors who collaborated with Stephen E. Fienberg included:

Adam Porter
Jason Hauzel
Marcel Schaefer
Cynthia Dwork
Ishtiak Ahmed

Their work was published in several key venues, with multiple contributions to the following:

Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality
arXiv (Cornell University)
Harvard Dataverse
Transportation Letters
Transportation Research Record Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Over the course of their career, Stephen E. Fienberg received numerous awards and honors, including:

Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada (2004), Academy of Science
Fellow of the American Academy of Political and Social Science (2004)
Samuel S. Wilks Memorial Award, American Statistical Association (2000)
Member of the National Academy of Sciences (1999)
Fellow of John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation (1984)
COPSS Presidents' Award (1982)
Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) (1980)
Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA) (1972)

Best Publications

Discrete multivariate analysis: theory and practice

Yvonne M. M. Bishop;Paul W. Holland;Stephen E. Fienberg

11190
Citations
Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice

Unknown

5374
Citations
The analysis of cross-classified categorical data

Stephen E. Fienberg

4643
Citations
Discrete Multivariate Analysis

D. V. Gokhale;Y. M. M. Bishop;S. E. Fienberg;P. W. Holland

2957
Citations
Mixed Membership Stochastic Blockmodels

Edoardo M. Airoldi;David M. Blei;Stephen E. Fienberg;Eric P. Xing

2491
Citations
Current Population Survey

Stephen E. Fienberg;Judith M. Tanur

2101
Citations
A comparison of string distance metrics for name-matching tasks

William W. Cohen;Pradeep Ravikumar;Stephen E. Fienberg

1993
Citations
Testing Statistical Hypotheses

Unknown

1552
Citations
A Survey of Statistical Network Models

Anna Goldenberg;Alice X. Zheng;Stephen E. Fienberg;Edoardo M. Airoldi

1058
Citations
The Analysis of Cross-Classified Categorical Data

A. Stuart;Stephen E. Fienberg

871
Citations
Adaptive name matching in information integration

M. Bilenko;R. Mooney;W. Cohen;P. Ravikumar

754
Citations
The Comparison and Evaluation of Forecasters.

Morris H DeGroot;Stephen E Fienberg

716
Citations
Biometry. The Principles and Practice of Statistics in Biological Research@@@Statistical Tables

Stephen E. Fienberg;Robert R. Sokal;F. James Rohlf

623
Citations
Mixed-membership models of scientific publications

Elena Erosheva;Stephen E. Fienberg;John D. Lafferty

615
Citations
A Comparison of Blocking Methods for Record Linkage

Rebecca C. Steorts;Samuel L. Ventura;Mauricio Sadinle;Stephen E. Fienberg

590
Citations
Identification and estimation of age-period-cohort models in the analysis of discrete archival data

Stephen E. Fienberg;William M. Mason

556
Citations
When did Bayesian inference become "Bayesian"?

Stephen E. Fienberg

553
Citations
Bone lead levels in adjudicated delinquents: A case control study

Herbert L. Needleman;Christine McFarland;Christine McFarland;Roberta B. Ness;Roberta B. Ness;Stephen E. Fienberg;Stephen E. Fienberg

544
Citations
The Analysis of Multidimensional Contingency Tables

Stephen E. Fienberg

489
Citations
The multiple recapture census for closed populations and incomplete 2k contingency tables

Stephen E. Fienberg

374
Citations
Statistical Analysis of Multiple Sociometric Relations.

Stephen E. Fienberg;Michael M. Meyer;Stanley S. Wasserman

344
Citations
An Exponential Family of Probability Distributions for Directed Graphs: Comment

Stephen E. Fienberg;Stanley Wasserman

72
Citations
Discussion on the paper by Handcock, Raftery and Tantrum

Tom A. B. Snijders;Tony Robinson;Anthony C. Atkinson;Marco Riani

5
Citations
Inference and Disputed Authorship: The Federalist

S. K. Khamis;F. Mosteller;D. L. Wallace

1
Citations
The Analysis of Cross‐Classified Categorical Data

D. Holt;Stephen E. Fienberg

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Edoardo M. Airoldi Temple University

David M. Blei Columbia University

Alessandro Rinaldo The University of Texas at Austin

Eric P. Xing Mohamed bin Zayed University of Artificial Intelligence

Frederick Mosteller Harvard University

Anthony C. Atkinson London School of Economics and Political Science

Stanley Wasserman Indiana University

Kathryn Roeder Carnegie Mellon University

Joseph B. Kadane Carnegie Mellon University

Bernie Devlin University of Pittsburgh

External Links

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