Jamie Stafford
Professor Stafford joined the University of Toronto in 1999 as an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Health Sciences and became a full Professor in 2005.
He has held Visiting Professor positions at the University of Chicago, Stanford University and École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne.
He is a recipient of the Premier’s Research Excellence Award and recently received the Distinguished Service Award from the Statistical Society of Canada for his enthusiastic and dynamic leadership in statistical science across Canada — including serving as the Director of the National Program on Complex Data Structures (NPCDS). Under his leadership, the NPCDS established national networks in a variety of fields including genomics, marine biology, computer experiments, forestry and agro-climate that placed leading statistical scientists in collaboration with domain researchers. Through industrial/agency partnerships, the NPCDS tripled NSERC’s investment in the program. He served as Provostial Advisor on Data Science from January 1, 2020 to December 31, 2020, which led to the establishment of the university’s Data Sciences Institute. He also served as Vice-Dean, Academic Operations from July 1, 2019 to June 30, 2025.