Robert Tibshirani

Robert Tibshirani (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. Provided by Wikipedia