Fienberg was on the Carnegie Mellon University faculty from 1980 and served as Dean of the
Dietrich College of Humanities and Social Sciences. He authored more than 400 publications, including six books, advised more than 30 Ph.D. students, and could claim more than 105 descendants in his mathematical genealogy. His publications included books on discrete multivariate analysis
categorical data analysis, US census adjustment, and forensic science. He was a founder and editor-in-chief of the
Journal of Privacy and Confidentiality. and of the
Annual Review of Statistics and Its Application.
Awards and honors Fienberg was an elected member of the
National Academy of Sciences, an elected fellow of the
Royal Society of Canada, an elected fellow of the
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a fellow of the
American Association for the Advancement of Science, a fellow of the
American Statistical Association and a fellow of the
Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He was a recipient of the
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS)
Presidents' Award in 1982. In 2002, Fienberg received the
Samuel S. Wilks Award from the
American Statistical Association for his distinguished career in statistics. and the
R. A. Fisher Lectureship from COPSS in 2015. He was awarded the Zellner Medal by the
International Society for Bayesian Analysis (ISBA) in 2016. In 2009 Fienberg was recipient of the
American Statistical Association's Founders Award.
Selected publications •
Bishop, Y. M. M., Fienberg, S. E. and Holland, P. W. (1975). Discrete Multivariate Analysis: Theory and Practice. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA. Paperback edition (1977). A Citation Classic. Reprinted, by Springer-Verlag, New York (2007). • Fienberg, S. E. and
Hinkley, D. V., eds. (1980). R. A. Fisher: An Appreciation. Springer-Verlag, NY. 1st reprint 1989; 2nd reprint by Springer-Verlag, NY (2012). • Fienberg, S. E. (1980). The Analysis of Cross-classified Categorical Data. 2nd Edition. M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA. A Citation Classic. Reprinted, by Springer-Verlag, New York (2007). • DeGroot, M. H., Fienberg, S. E., and Kadane, J. B., eds. (1986). Statistics and the Law. Wiley, New York. Wiley Classics Paperback edition (1994). • Goldenberg, A., Zheng, A. X., Fienberg, S. E. and Airoldi, E. M. (2010) A Survey of Statistical Network Models. Now Publishers Inc. ==Personal life==