Background
Geman was born in Chicago in 1943.
Geman was born in Chicago in 1943.
He graduated from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1965 with a Bachelor of Arts degree in English Literature and from Northwestern University in 1970 with a Doctor of Philosophy in Mathematics.
He is a Professor at the Johns Hopkins University and simultaneously a visiting professor at École Normale Supérieure de Cachan. His dissertation was entitled as "Horizontal-window conditioning and the zeros of stationary processes." He joined University of Massachusetts - Amherst in 1970, where he retired as a distinguished professor in 2001. Thereafter, he became a professor at the Department of Applied Mathematics at Johns Hopkins University.
He has also been a visiting professor at the École Normale Supérieure de Cachan since 2001.
He is a Fellow of both the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics.
