Bio
Robert Tibshirani's main interests are in applied statistics, biostatistics, and data mining. He is co-author of the books "Generalized Additive Models" (with Trevor Hastie, Stanford), "An Introduction to the Bootstrap" (with Brad Efron, Stanford), and "Elements of Statistical Learning" (with Trevor Hastie and Jerry Friedman, Stanford). His current research focuses on problems in biology and genomics, medicine, and industry. With Stanford collaborator Balasubramanian Narasimhan, he also develops software packages for genomics and proteomics.