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 bioinformatics software.

Education and career

Dudoit studied for the French

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in mathematics 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

Carleton University Carleton University is an English-language public research university in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Founded in 1942 as Carleton College, the institution originally operated as a private, non-denominational evening college to serve returning World ...

. As a beginning graduate student in the department of statistics at the University of California, 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 Terence Paul "Terry" Speed (born 14 March 1943 in Victor Harbor, South Australia), FAA FRS is an Australian statistician. A senior principal research scientist at the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research, he is known for his co ...

Career and research

After postdoctoral research with

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, she joined the division of biostatistics 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 Mark Johannes van der Laan is the Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has made contributions to survival analysis, semiparametric statistics, multiple testing, and ...

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

{{DEFAULTSORT:Dudoit, Sandrine Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American statisticians French statisticians Women statisticians Carleton University alumni University of California, Berkeley alumni UC Berkeley School of Public Health faculty Elected Members of the International Statistical Institute Fellows of the American Statistical Association Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics