Biography:Jerome H. Friedman

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Short description: American mathematician
Jerome H. Friedman
Born (1939-12-29) December 29, 1939 (age 84)
Yreka, California, USA
NationalityUnited States
EducationChico State College
University of California, Berkeley
Known forProjection pursuit regression
Gradient boosting
CART
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
Machine Learning
InstitutionsStanford Linear Accelerator Center
Stanford University
Doctoral advisorRonald R. Ross[1]

Jerome Harold Friedman (born December 29, 1939) is an American statistician, consultant and Professor of Statistics at Stanford University, known for his contributions in the field of statistics and data mining.[2][3]

Biography

Friedman studied at Chico State College for two years before transferring to the University of California, Berkeley in 1959, where he received his AB in Physics in 1962, and his PhD in High Energy Particle Physics in 1967.[4][5]

In 1968 he started his academic career as research physicist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. In 1972 he started at Stanford University as leader of the Computation Research Group at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, where he would participate until 2003. In the year 1976–77 he was a visiting scientist at CERN in Geneva. From 1981 to 1984 he was visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. In 1982 he was appointed Professor of Statistics at Stanford University.[4]

In 1984 he was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[6] In 2002 he was awarded the SIGKDD Innovation Award by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).[7] In 2010 he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Sciences (Applied mathematical sciences).

Publications

Friedman has authored and co-authored many publications in the field of data-mining including "nearest neighbor classification, logistical regressions, and high dimensional data analysis. His primary research interest is in the area of machine learning."[2] A selection:

See also

References

  1. Fisher, N. I. (2015-05-01). "A Conversation with Jerry Friedman". Statistical Science 30 (2). doi:10.1214/14-STS509. ISSN 0883-4237. 
  2. 2.0 2.1 Jerome H. Friedman Professor of Statistics. Accessed 18 July 2017.
  3. Chow, Rony (2021-06-03). "Jerome H. Friedman: Applying Statistics to Data and Machine Learning" (in en-US). https://www.historyofdatascience.com/jerome-friedman-applying-statistics-to-data-and-machine-learning/. 
  4. 4.0 4.1 Jerome H. Friedman Vita December 2012, at stat.stanford.edu. Accessed 18 July 2017.
  5. Jerome Harold Friedman. Mathematics Genealogy Project
  6. View/Search Fellows of the ASA , accessed 2016-10-29.
  7. Dr. Jerome H. Friedman awarded the SIGKDD Innovation Award, 2002.

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