Professor Peter Bühlmann

ETH, Zurich

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Title: Blessing of heterogeneous large-scale data for high-dimensional causal inference

Background

Peter Bühlmann has been Full Professor of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich since 1 October 2004.

He studied mathematics at the ETH Zurich (1985-1990). In 1993, he received his doctoral degree in mathematics (statistics) from the ETH Zurich. From 1994-1995 he worked as a postdoc in the Department of Statistics at the University of California at Berkeley. Following this he spent two more years, from 1995-1997, at the U.C. Berkeley as Neyman assistant professor. From 1997-2001 he was Assistant Professor and from 2001-2004 Associate Professor of Mathematics at the ETH Zurich.

His main research interests are in computational statistics, particularly in machine learning (ensemble methods, tree-structured models) and applications in molecular biology (gene expression microarrays).

Posted in Plenary2016.