Robert Tibshirani

Robert Tibshirani FRS FRSC
Born	(1956-07-10) July 10, 1956 (age 67)
Nationality	Canadian, American
Alma mater	University of Waterloo University of Toronto Stanford University
Known for	Lasso method
Spouse	Cheryl Denise Tibshirani
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	Stanford University
Doctoral advisor	Bradley Efron[1]
Doctoral students	Genevera Allen John D. Storey Larry A. Wasserman Daniela Witten[2][1]
Website	tibshirani.su.domains

Robert Tibshirani FRS FRSC (born July 10, 1956) is a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University. He was a professor at the University of Toronto from 1985 to 1998. In his work, he develops statistical tools for the analysis of complex datasets, most recently in genomics and proteomics.

His most well-known contributions are the Lasso method, which proposed the use of L¹ penalization in regression and related problems, and Significance Analysis of Microarrays.