Daniela Witten
American biostatistician
Daniela M. Witten is an American biostatistician . She is a professor and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Washington .[ 4] [ 5] Her research investigates the use of machine learning to understand high-dimensional data .[ 1]
Early life and education
Witten studied mathematics and biology at Stanford University , graduating in 2005. She remained there for her postgraduate research, earning a master's degree in statistics in 2006.[ 6] [ 7] She was awarded the American Statistical Association Gertrude Mary Cox Scholarship in 2008.[ 8] Her doctoral thesis, A penalized matrix decomposition, and its applications was supervised by Robert Tibshirani .[ 2] [ 9] [ 10] She worked with Trevor Hastie on canonical correlation analysis.[ 11] She co-authored An Introduction to Statistical Learning in 2013.[ 3]
Research and career
Witten applies statistical machine learning to personalised medical treatments and decoding the genome.[ 12] She uses machine learning to analyse data sets in neuroscience and genomics .[ 13] She is worried about increasing amounts of data in biomedical sciences.[ 14]
She was appointed to the University of Washington as Genentech Endowed Professor in 2010.[ 15] Witten contributed to the 2012 report Evolution of Translational Omics , which provided best practise in translating omics research into a clinic.[ 16] [ 17]
She is an associate editor for the Journal of the American Statistical Association .[ 18]
Recognition
She was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2020.[ 19] She was named to the 2022 class of Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics , for "substantial contributions to the field of statistical machine learning, with applications to biology; and for communicating the fundamental ideas in the field to a broad audience".[ 20]
She was awarded an NIH Director's Early Independence Award in 2011.[ 21] She was awarded the American Statistical Association David P. Byar Young Investigator Award for her work Penalized Classification Using Fisher’s Linear Discriminant in 2011.[ 22] Her book An Introduction to Statistical Learning won a Technometrics Ziegel Award in 2014.[ 23]
She won an Elle magazine Genius Award in 2012.[ 24] In 2013 she won an Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Fellowship.[ 25] She was named in the Forbes 30 Under 30 Science & Healthcare category in 2012, 2013 and 2014.[ 26] [ 27] [ 28] In 2015 Witten was awarded the Texas A&M University Raymond J. Carroll Young Investigator Award.[ 29] In 2018, she was named a Simons Foundation Investigator,[ 30] and in 2022, she received the COPSS Presidents' Award .
Personal life
Daniela is the younger sister of Ilana B. Witten , the older sister of Rafael Witten, and the daughter of the physicists Chiara Nappi and Edward Witten .[ 31] She is married to software engineer Ari Steinberg.[ 32] [ 33]
References
^ a b Daniela Witten publications indexed by Google Scholar
^ a b Daniela Witten at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ a b James, Gareth ; Witten, Daniela; Hastie, Trevor ; Tibshirani, Robert (2013). An Introduction to Statistical Learning: with Applications in R (1st ed.). Springer. ISBN 978-1-4614-7137-0 .
^ "Daniela Witten" . faculty.washington.edu .
^ "UW Biostatistics People Page" . UW Biostatistics People Page .
^ UWTV (September 12, 2013), UW Four Peaks - Daniela Witten , retrieved August 28, 2018
^ "Interview With Daniela Witten · Simply Statistics" . simplystatistics.org . Archived from the original on January 29, 2013. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ "Gertrude M. Cox Scholarship" . amstat.org . American Statistical Association . Archived from the original on August 29, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ Witten, Daniela (2010). A penalized matrix decomposition, and its applications (PDF) . stanford.edu (PhD thesis). Stanford University. OCLC 667187274 . Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ "Daniela Witten | Department of Statistics" . statistics.stanford.edu . Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ Witten, D. M.; Tibshirani, R.; Hastie, T. (April 17, 2009). "A penalized matrix decomposition, with applications to sparse principal components and canonical correlation analysis" . Biostatistics . 10 (3): 515–534. doi :10.1093/biostatistics/kxp008 . ISSN 1465-4644 . PMC 2697346 . PMID 19377034 .
^ "Daniela Witten" . PopTech . Archived from the original on March 8, 2022. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ Aguiar, Izzy (February 1, 2018). "Getting to Know the Women in Data Science: Daniela Witten" . medium.com . Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ Stanford University School of Engineering (April 3, 2018), Daniela Witten: The Statistical Challenges of Increased Data , retrieved August 28, 2018
^ "Daniela Witten | Department of Biostatistics" . biostat.washington.edu . Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ IOM (Institute of Medicine) (2012). Micheel, Christine M.; Nass, Sharly J.; Omenn, Gilbert S. (eds.). Evolution of Translational Omics: Lessons Learned and the Path Forward . Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. ISBN 978-0-309-22418-5 .
^ Witten, D. M.; Tibshirani, R. (January 1, 2013). "Scientific research in the age of omics: the good, the bad, and the sloppy" . Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association . 20 (1): 125–127. doi :10.1136/amiajnl-2012-000972 . ISSN 1067-5027 . PMC 3555320 . PMID 23037799 .
^ "Editorial Board EOV". Journal of the American Statistical Association . 109 (508): ebi. October 2, 2014. doi :10.1080/01621459.2014.980188 . ISSN 0162-1459 . S2CID 219594544 .
^ "ASA Fellows list" . American Statistical Association. Retrieved June 1, 2020 .
^ "2022 IMS Fellows Announced" . Institute of Mathematical Statistics. April 22, 2022. Retrieved May 8, 2022 .
^ "NIH program allows junior investigators to bypass traditional post-doc training" . National Institutes of Health (NIH) . September 18, 2015. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ Witten, Daniela M.; Tibshirani, Robert (August 9, 2011). "Penalized classification using Fisher's linear discriminant" . Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series B (Statistical Methodology) . 73 (5): 753–772. doi :10.1111/j.1467-9868.2011.00783.x . ISSN 1369-7412 . PMC 3272679 . PMID 22323898 .
^ "2014 Ziegel Award Announcement". Technometrics . 58 (1): 152–153. January 2, 2016. doi :10.1080/00401706.2015.1105697 . ISSN 0040-1706 . S2CID 219594955 .
^ "Faculty Profile: Daniela Witten | Department of Biostatistics" . biostat.washington.edu . Archived from the original on April 7, 2017. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ "2013 Annual Report" (PDF) . Alfred P. Sloan Foundation . 2013. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ "30 Under 30 - Science & Healthcare - Forbes" . Forbes . Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ Forbes (December 16, 2011), Forbes 30 Under 30 - Success Is In Daniela Witten's DNA , retrieved August 28, 2018
^ "Daniela Witten – NIH Director's Blog" . directorsblog.nih.gov . February 11, 2014. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ "Raymond J. Carroll Young Investigator Award - Dept. of Statistics, Texas A&M University" . Dept. of Statistics, Texas A&M University . Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ "Daniela Witten named Simons Investigator | Department of Biostatistics" . biostat.washington.edu . Archived from the original on August 29, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ "10 Scientists Rocking Our World" . HowStuffWorks . April 2, 2012. Archived from the original on August 29, 2018. Retrieved August 28, 2018 .
^ "Which Career Path Will You Follow? | Amstat News" . Magazine.amstat.org. September 1, 2014. Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
^ Aguiar, Izzy (February 1, 2018). "Getting to Know the Women in Data Science: Daniela Witten" . Medium . Retrieved November 4, 2019 .
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