Diane Lambert

Lambert earned her Ph.D. in 1978 from the University of Rochester. Her dissertation, supervised by W. Jackson Hall, was P-Values: Asymptotics and Robustness.^[3] In the early part of her career, she worked as a faculty member at Carnegie Mellon University. As an assistant professor there, she did pioneering work on the confidentiality of statistical information.^[4] She earned tenure at Carnegie Mellon, but moved to Bell Labs in 1986. At Bell Labs, she became head of statistics, and a Bell Labs Fellow. She moved again to Google in 2005.^[5][6]

Lambert became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1991.^[7] She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,^[8] was executive secretary of the institute from 1990 to 1993,^[9] and was one of the institute's Medallion Lecturers in 1995.^[10]