Background
Grenander, Ulf was born on July 23, 1923 in Vâstervik, Sweden. Son of Sven and Maria (Persson) Grenander. came to the United States, 1966.
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Ulf Grenander
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Education
Grenander earned his undergraduate degree at Uppsala University. Grenander earned his Doctor of Philosophy at Stockholm University in 1950 under the supervision of Harald Cramér.
Career
His early research was in probability theory, stochastic processes, time series analysis, and statistical theory (particularly the order-constrained estimation of cumulative distribution functions using his sieve estimator). In recent decades, Grenander contributed to computational statistics, image processing, pattern recognition, and artificial intelligence. He coined the term pattern theory to distinguish from pattern recognition.
From 1966 until his retirement, Grenander was L. Herbert Ballou University Professor at Brown University.
In 1969–1974 he was also professor of Applied Mathematics at The Royal Institute of Technology.
Achievements
Membership
Fellow Institute of Mathematics Statistics, American Academy Arts and Sciences. Member Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Royal Statistical Society (honorary), National Academy of Sciences.
Connections
Married Emma-Stina Hallquist, December 22, 1946. Children: Sven, Angela, Charlotte.
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