Thomas S. Salisbury

Thomas Salisbury is a professor and former department chair in York University’s department of mathematics and statistics, where he teaches financial engineering. His research area is probability theory, specifically Brownian motion and related Markov processes, including their applications to actuarial finance. He has been a co-editor-in-chief of the Canadian Mathematical Bulletin and an associate editor of Probability Theory and Related Fields. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS) and of the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences, and won the Canadian Mathematical Society’s (CMS) Graham Wright Award for Distinguished Service in 2015.

He has served terms as president of the CMS and as deputy director of the Fields Institute, where he is currently associate director for industry liaison. He received his BSc in 1979 from McGill University and his PhD in mathematics in 1983 from the University of British Columbia.