Robert Tibshirani

Professor of Statistics

Professor of Biomedical Data Science

Joint Appointment or Affiliation:

Bio-X

Data Science

Robert Tibshirani's main interests are in applied statistics, biostatistics, and data mining. He is co-author of the books Generalized Additive Models (with T. Hastie), An Introduction to the Bootstrap (with B. Efron), and Elements of Statistical Learning (with T. Hastie and J. Friedman). His current research focuses on problems in biology and genomics, medicine, and industry. With collaborator Balasubramanian Narasimhan, he also develops software packages for genomics and proteomics.

More Information:

Video: 2025 Data Science Conference Keynote Address

Graduation Year

1985

Dissertation Title

Local Likelihood Estimation

Advisor Name

Efron

Committee Names

Friedman, Switzer

Robert Tibshirani has won the WNAR Outstanding Impact Award

The Western North American Region (WNAR) of The International Biometric Society (IBS) announced Rob Tibshirani as the recipient of the 2024 WNAR Outstanding Impact Award and Lectureship.

Awards

Rob Tibshirani receives COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award

Professor Tibshirani has been chosen for this important recognition of meritorious achievement and scholarship, as well as highly significant impact of statistical methods on scientific investigations.