Sandrine Dudoit is a professor of statistics and public health at the

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. Her research applies statistics to

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and genetic data; she is known as one of the founders of the open-source

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project for the development of

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software.

Education and career

Dudoit studied for the French

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mathematics Mathematics is a field of study that discovers and organizes methods, Mathematical theory, theories and theorems that are developed and Mathematical proof, proved for the needs of empirical sciences and mathematics itself. There are many ar ...

and physical sciences at the in Paris. She moved to Canada for her undergraduate studies, completing a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1992 at

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. As a beginning graduate student in the department of statistics at the

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, Berkeley, Dudoit was the recipient of the Gertrude Cox Scholarship of the

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's Committee on Women in Statistics. She earned her doctorate at Berkeley in 1999. Her dissertation, ''Linkage Analysis of Complex Human Traits Using Identity by Descent Data'', was supervised by Terry Speed.

Career and research

After postdoctoral research with Patrick O. Brown at

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, she joined the division of

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in the

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as an assistant professor in 2001. She added a joint appointment in the department of statistics in 2006. Dudoit and Mark van der Laan are the authors of the book ''Multiple Testing Procedures with Applications to Genomics''. Dudoit is the editor of the book ''Selected Works of Terry Speed'' and co-editor of ''Bioinformatics and Computational Biology Solutions Using R and Bioconductor''.

Awards and honors

Dudoit was elected as a

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in 2010. She became an Elected Member of the

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in 2014, and a Fellow of the

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in 2021.

References

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