Trevor Hastie

Trevor Hastie is the John A Overdeck Professor of Statistics at

Stanford University. Hastie is known for his research in applied

statistics, particularly in the fields of statistical modeling, bioinformatics

and machine learning. He has published six books and over 200

research articles in these areas. Prior to joining Stanford

University in 1994, Hastie worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories for nine

years, where he contributed to the development of the statistical modeling environment

popular in the R computing system. He received a B.Sc. (hons) in statistics

from Rhodes University in 1976, a M.Sc. from the University of Cape

Town in 1979, and a Ph.D from Stanford in 1984. In 2018 he was elected

to the U.S. National Academy of Sciences. He is a dual citizen of the

United States and South Africa.