Iain M. Johnstone
Iain Murray Johnstone (* 1956 in Melbourne ) is an Australian statistician who teaches at Stanford University .
Johnstone graduated from the Australian National University in 1977 with a degree in mathematics and received his PhD from Columbia University with Lawrence David Brown in 1981 ( Admissible Estimation of Poisson Means, Birth-Death Processes and Discrete Dirichlet Problems ). He has been Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at Stanford University since 1992 , where he has been since 1981. He is at the same time at the Statistics Faculty, of which he was director from 1994 to 1997, and at the Medical Faculty (Department of Health Research and Policy).
In the 1990s he was known for the application of wavelet methods for noise reduction in signal and image processing and applied them to statistical decision theory. In the 2000s he applied the theory of random matrices to multi-dimensional problems in statistics. In biostatistics, he cooperated with physicians in the application of statistical methods, especially in cardiology and prostate cancer.
In 2006 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM) in Madrid (High Dimensional Statistical Inference and Random Matrices). He was a Guggenheim Fellow and Sloan Research Fellow and received the Presidents' Prize of the Statistical Societies. Johnstone received the Presidential Young Investigator Award and the Guy Bronze Medal from the Royal Statistical Society. He was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences , the National Academy of Sciences , the American Statistical Association, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In 2004 he gave the Wald Lectures.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Iain M. Johnstone in the Mathematics Genealogy Project (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Johnstone, Iain M. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Johnstone, Iain Murray (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian-American mathematician |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melbourne |