12 Facts About Robert Tibshirani

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Robert Tibshirani was born on July 10,1956 and is a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University.

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Robert Tibshirani was a professor at the University of Toronto from 1985 to 1998.

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Robert Tibshirani joined the doctoral program at Stanford University in 1981 and received his Ph.

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Robert Tibshirani is a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association.

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Robert Tibshirani was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada in 2001 and a member of the National Academy of Sciences in 2012.

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Robert Tibshirani was made the 2012 Statistical Society of Canada's Gold Medalist at their yearly meeting in Guelph, Ontario for "exceptional contributions to methodology and theory for the analysis of complex data sets, smoothing and regression methodology, statistical learning, and classification, and application areas that include public health, genomics, and proteomics".

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Robert Tibshirani gave his Gold Medal Address at the 2013 meeting in Edmonton.

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Robert Tibshirani was elected to the Royal Society in 2019.

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Robert Tibshirani was named as the 2021 recipient of the ISI Founders of Statistics Prize for his 1996 paper Regression Shrinkage and Selection via the Lasso.

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Robert Tibshirani's son, Ryan Tibshirani, with whom he occasionally publishes scientific papers, is a professor at UC Berkeley in the Department of Statistics.

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Robert Tibshirani is a prolific author of scientific works on various topics in applied statistics, including statistical learning, data mining, statistical computing, and bioinformatics.

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Robert Tibshirani is one of the most ISI Highly Cited Authors in Mathematics by the ISI Web of Knowledge.