Robert Tibshirani
Academic Appointments
- Professor, Health Research & Policy - Biostatistics
- Professor, Statistics
- Member, Bio-X
- Member, Cancer Center
Professional Snapshot
Honors and Awards
- Alumni Achievement Award, University of Waterloo (2006)
- E.W Steacie Prize, NSERC- Canada (1998)
- President's award, Committee of Presidents of Statistical societies (1997)
- Fellow, Royal Society of Canada (1997)
- Guggenheim fellowship, Guggenheim foundation (1994)
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Industry Relationships
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| Consulting: | Aviir inc, Bioseek inc, Palo alto medical foundation |
| Equity: | Aviir inc, Bioseek inc, Crescendo |
Scientific Focus
Research Interests
My research is in applied statistics and biostatistics. I specialize in computer-intensive methods for regression and classification, bootstrap, cross-validation and statistical inference, and signal and image analysis for medical diagnosis.
Publications
- Relationship of differential gene expression profiles in CD34+ myelodysplastic syndrome marrow cells to disease subtype and progression. Blood. 2009
- Disease signatures are robust across tissues and experiments. Mol Syst Biol. 2009: 307
- Survival analysis with high-dimensional covariates. Stat Methods Med Res. 2009
- Extensions of sparse canonical correlation analysis with applications to genomic data. Stat Appl Genet Mol Biol. 2009; (1): Article28
- Lymphoma cell VEGFR2 expression detected by immunohistochemistry predicts poor overall survival in diffuse large B cell lymphoma treated with immunochemotherapy (R-CHOP). Br J Haematol. 2009

