Peter Lukas Bühlmann (born 12 April 1965 in

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) is a Swiss mathematician and statistician.

Biography

Bühlmann studied mathematics from 1985 at the

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with

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in 1990 and doctorate in 1993. His thesis ''The Blockwise Bootstrap in Time Series and Empirical Processes'' was written under the supervision of

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and

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. At the

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, Bühlmann was from 1994 to 1995 a postdoctoral research fellow and from 1995 to 1997 Neyman Assistant Professor. At ETH Zurich he became assistant professor in 1997 and is a full professor from 2004 to the present. From 2013 to 2017 he chaired the Department of Mathematics. His research deals with statistics, machine learning, and computational biology. He is married and has four children. Bühlmann is a frequent

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in the Alps.

Honors and awards

Bühlmann is a Fellow of the

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, of the American Statistical Association, and Elected Member of the

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. He is an honorary doctor of the Catholic University of Louvain and a recipient of Guy Medal in Silver from the

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(2018). He presented the Neyman Lecture from the

(2018), was Rothschild Fellow and Lecturer at the

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(2018), invited speaker at the International Congress of Mathematicians in Rio de Janeiro (2018) and a Plenary Speaker at the 8th European Congress of Mathematics in Portoroz (2021). From 2014-2020 he was a Highly Cited Researcher at

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. From 2010 to 2012 he was a co-editor of the '' Annals of Statistics''.

Selected publications

Books

*with

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Statistics for high-dimensional data
Methods, Theory and Applications, Springer 2011 *as editor with P. Drineas, M. Kane, M. van der Laan
Handbook of Big Data
Chapman and Hall 2016 *as editor with others

The Abel Symposium 2014, Springer 2016

Articles

*with N. Meinshausen: High-dimensional graphs and variable selection with the lasso, Annals of Statistics, vol. 34, 2006, pp. 1436–1462
Arxiv
*with N. Meinshausen: Stability selection, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, vol. 72, 2010, pp. 417–473 *with L. Meier, S. Van de Geer: The group lasso for logistic regression, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, vol. 70, 2008, pp. 53–71 *with A. Prelić ''et al.'': A systematic comparison and evaluation of biclustering methods for gene expression data, Bioinformatics, vol. 22, 2006, pp. 1122–1129 *with B. Yu: Boosting with the ''L''₂ loss: regression and classification, Journal of the American Statistical Association, vol. 98, 2003, pp. 324–339 *with J. J. Goeman: Analyzing gene expression data in terms of gene sets: methodological issues, Bioinformatics, vol. 23, 2007, pp. 980–987 *with B. Yu: Analyzing bagging, Annals of Statistics, vol. 30, 2002, pp. 927–961 *with T. Hothorn: Boosting algorithms: Regularization, prediction and model fitting, Statistical Science, vol. 22, 2007, pp. 477–505 *with S. van de Geer: On the conditions used to prove oracle results for the Lasso, Electronic Journal of Statistics, vol. 3, 2009, pp. 1360–1392

References

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