Education
Shepp obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1961 with a dissertation entitled Recurrent Sums of Random Variables.
Shepp obtained his Doctor of Philosophy from Princeton University in 1961 with a dissertation entitled Recurrent Sums of Random Variables.
His advisor was William Feller. He joined Bell Laboratories in 1962. He joined Rutgers University in 1997.
He joined University of Pennsylvania in 2010.
2014: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award.
2014: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Marie Sklodowska-Curie Award 2012: Became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society. 1992: Elected member of the Institute of Medicine 1989: Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences 1979: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Distinguished Scientist Award in 1979 1979: Lester R. Ford Award (with Joseph Kruskal).
American Mathematical Society. National Academy of Sciences]
1992: Elected member of the Institute of Medicine
1989: Elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.