Rate Professor Robert Tibshirani

Academic Profile

Academic Background: Ph.D. in Statistics, Stanford University, 1984; B.S., University of Toronto.

Research Interests: Statistical learning, data mining, and bioinformatics; develops methods like lasso regression.

Appointments: Professor of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science, Stanford University.

Awards: COPSS Presidents’ Award; Guy Medal in Silver, Royal Statistical Society.

Publications: Co-author of An Introduction to Statistical Learning (Springer, 2013); articles in Annals of Statistics, Journal of Machine Learning Research.

Additional Contributions: Developer of widely used R packages; instructor for Stanford’s online machine learning courses.