Chiara Sabatti is an Italian and American statistician and statistical geneticist, and a professor of biomedical data science and of statistics at

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

. Her research involves the analysis of high-throughput

genomics Genomics is an interdisciplinary field of biology focusing on the structure, function, evolution, mapping, and editing of genomes. A genome is an organism's complete set of DNA, including all of its genes as well as its hierarchical, three-dim ...

data.

Education and career

Sabatti was born in Brescia, Italy. She studied in Brescia and Milan and earned her bachelor's and master's degrees in statistics and economics from

Bocconi University Bocconi University ( it, Università Commerciale Luigi Bocconi, ) is a private university in Milan, Italy. Bocconi provides education in the fields of economics, finance, law, management, political science, public administration and computer sci ...

in 1993, summa cum laude, working there with Eugenio Regazzini. She came to

for doctoral study in statistics, and completed her Ph.D. in 1998. Her dissertation, ''Group Transformations and Dimensionality Reduction in Transition Rules for MCMC'', was supervised by

Jun S. Liu Jun S. Liu (; born 1965) is a Chinese-American statistician focusing on Bayesian statistical inference and computational biology. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2002. Liu is a professor in the Department of Statistics at Harvard Univer ...

. After postdoctoral research at Stanford in the group of

Neil Risch Neil Risch is an American human geneticist and professor at the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF). Risch is the Lamond Family Foundation Distinguished Professor in Human Genetics and Director of the Institute for Human Genetics and P ...

, Sabatti became an assistant professor of human genetics and statistics at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California. UCLA's academic roots were established in 1881 as a teachers college then known as the southern branch of the California St ...

in 2000. She returned to Stanford as an associate professor of health research and policy in 2009, changing to biomedical data science and statistics in 2015. She was promoted to full professor at Stanford in 2016.

Recognition

Sabatti was named to the 2022 class of Fellows of the

Institute of Mathematical Statistics The Institute of Mathematical Statistics is an international professional and scholarly society devoted to the development, dissemination, and application of statistics and probability. The Institute currently has about 4,000 members in all parts o ...

, for "excellent research in statistical genetics; and leadership in defining a role for statistics in data science and developing educational pathways supporting data intensive science. For outreach efforts and commitment to increase research involvement of underrepresented minorities".

Personal life

Sabatti is married to Stanford statistician and data scientist

Emmanuel Candès Emmanuel Jean Candès (born 27 April 1970) is a French statistician. He is a professor of statistics and electrical engineering (by courtesy) at Stanford University, where he is also the Barnum-Simons Chair in Mathematics and Statistics. Candès ...

References

External links

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Sabatti, Chiara Year of birth missing (living people) Living people American geneticists American statisticians American women statisticians Italian geneticists Italian statisticians Italian women scientists Statistical geneticists Bocconi University alumni Stanford University alumni University of California, Los Angeles faculty Stanford University faculty Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics People from Brescia