Dr. Priscilla E. Greenwood

Priscilla E. Greenwood is a Canadian mathematician who is a professor emeritus of mathematics at the University of British Columbia. She is known for her research in probability theory and stochastic processes with applications to neuroscience and epidemiology. Greenwood was elected as a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1985. She won the Krieger–Nelson Prize of the Canadian Mathematical Society in 2002. She did her undergraduate from Duke University in 1959, and graduate studies from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the University of Wisconsin–Madison, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1963 under the supervision of Joshua Chover. She was a faculty at the North Carolina College, the University of British Columbia, and Arizona State University.