Bio
Brad is Max H. Stein Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Professor of Statistics, and Professor of Biostatistics with the Department of Biomedical Data Science in the School of Medicine; he serves as Co-director of the Mathematical and Computational Sciences Program. He has held visiting faculty appointments at Harvard, UC Berkeley, and Imperial College, London. A recipient of a 2005 National Medal of Science for his contributions to theoretical and applied statistics, especially the bootstrap sampling technique, in 2014 he was awarded the Guy Medal in Gold by the Royal Statistical Society. Together with David Cox of the University of Oxford, Efron was honored as a Laureate in the 2016 edition of the BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Awards, ?for revolutionizing statistics and making it into an indispensable tool for other sciences.?
Academic Appointments
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Professor, Statistics
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Professor, Biomedical Data Science
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Member, Stanford Cancer Institute
Administrative Appointments
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Professor of Biomedical Data Science, Stanford School of Medicine Department of Biomedical Data Science (2015 - Present)
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Chairman, Stanford University Faculty Senate (1998 - 1999)
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Chairman, Stanford University Department of Statistics (1998 - 1999)
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Chairman, Stanford University Advisory Board (1996 - 1997)
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Chairman, Stanford University Department of Statistics (1993 - 1994)
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Chairman, Stanford University Department of Statistics (1991 - 1994)
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Max H. Stein Professor of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University (1988 - Present)
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Associate Dean, Stanford University School of Humanities and Sciences (1987 - 1990)
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Co-director, Stanford University Mathematical and Computational Science Program (1980 - Present)
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Professor, Stanford University Department of Statistics (1972 - Present)
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Professor of Biostatistics, Stanford School of Medicine Department of Health Research and Policy (1972 - 2015)
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Visiting Scholar, Imperial College London Department of Mathematics (1971 - 1972)
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Associate Professor, Stanford University Department of Statistics (1968 - 1972)
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Visiting Lecturer, Harvard University Department of Statistics (1967 - 1968)
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Assistant Professer, Stanford University Department of Statistics (1964 - 1967)