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.Jerome H. Friedman
Professor of Statistics. Accessed 18 July 2017.

Biography

Friedman studied at

Chico State College California State University, Chico, or commonly, Chico State, is a public university in Chico, California. Founded in 1887, it is the second oldest campus in the California State University system. As of the fall 2020 semester, the university had ...

for two years before transferring to the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California) is a public land-grant research university in Berkeley, California. Established in 1868 as the University of California, it is the state's first land-grant u ...

in 1959, where he received his AB in Physics in 1962, and his PhD in High Energy Particle Physics in 1967.Jerome H. Friedman
Vita December 2012, at stat.stanford.edu. Accessed 18 July 2017. In 1968 he started his academic career as research physicist at the

Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), commonly referred to as the Berkeley Lab, is a United States national laboratory that is owned by, and conducts scientific research on behalf of, the United States Department of Energy. Located in ...

. In 1972 he started at Stanford University as leader of the Computation Research Group at the

Stanford Linear Accelerator Center SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory, originally named the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, is a United States Department of Energy National Laboratories, United States Department of Energy National Laboratory operated by Stanford Univers ...

, 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. In 1984 he was elected as a

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. In 2002 he was awarded the SIGKDD Innovation Award by the

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(ACM).Dr. Jerome H. Friedman
awarded the SIGKDD Innovation Award, 2002. 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." A selection: * * * *

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