Biography:Susan P. Holmes

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Short description: American biostatistician
Susan Holmes
Susan Holmes at Basel Computational Biology Conference 2019.jpg
Holmes in 2019
Alma materUniversité Montpellier II
Awards
  • Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2005)
  • NIH Director's Transformative Research Award (2013)
  • Fellow of the Fields Institute (2015)
  • NIPS Breiman Lecturer (2016)
Scientific career
FieldsBiostatistics
InstitutionsINRA, Montpellier
MIT
Harvard University
Cornell University
Stanford University
ThesisComputer-Intensive Methods for the Evaluation of Results after an Exploratory Analysis (1985)
Doctoral advisorYves Escoufier

Susan P. Holmes is an American statistician and professor at Stanford University. She is noted for her work in applying nonparametric multivariate statistics, bootstrapping methods, and data visualization to biology.[1][2]

She received her PhD in 1985 from Université Montpellier II. She served as a tenured research scientist at INRA for ten years.[3] She then taught at MIT and Harvard and was an associate professor of biometry at Cornell before moving to Stanford in 1998.[1] She is married to fellow Stanford professor Persi Diaconis.[4]

She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[5]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 "Susan Holmes". https://med.stanford.edu/profiles/susan-holmes. 
  2. Kubota, Taylor (7 November 2016). "Q&A with Stanford statistics Professor Susan Holmes: Statistics in the era of big data". http://news.stanford.edu/2016/11/07/susan-holmes-statistics-era-big-data/. 
  3. Hayes, David F.; Shubin, Tatiana; Alexanderson, Gerald L. et al., eds (2004). Mathematical adventures for students and amateurs. Washington, DC: Mathematical Association of America. p. 282. ISBN 0-88385-548-8. 
  4. O'Conner, J. J.; Robertson, E. F.. "Diaconis biography". http://www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Diaconis.html. 
  5. Honored Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm, retrieved 2017-11-24