| Arif Zaman | |
| Nationality: | American Pakistani |
| Fields: | Mathematics |
| Workplaces: | Purdue University[1] Florida State University Lahore University of Management Sciences |
| Alma Mater: | Stanford University[2] Harvey Mudd College Claremont Graduate University |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Persi Diaconis |
| Academic Advisors: | Jerome Spanier |
| Known For: | Contributions in pseudo-random number generation and his contribution to the field of Computer science |
Arif Zaman is a Pakistani mathematician, academic scientist, and a retired professor of Statistics and Mathematics from Syed Babar Ali School of Science and Engineering, Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS), Lahore, Pakistan. Before joining LUMS in 1994, he also served in the Statistics Department at Purdue University and at Florida State University.
Zaman attended Harvey Mudd College, where he completed his B.S. in Mathematics in 1976.[3] He received an M.A. in Applied Mathematics in 1977 at the Claremont Graduate School, and his PhD in Statistics at Stanford University in 1981.[3] In his doctoral thesis, he studied de Finetti's theorem and its possible turn out in Markov chain. His dissertation was supervised by Persi Diaconis.