Jerome Friedman elected to US National Academy of Sciences

Five Stanford professors have been elected to the prestigious National Academy of Sciences, a private organization of scientists and engineers dedicated to the furtherance of science and its use for the general welfare.

Recognized for their distinguished and original contributions to scientific research were Persis Drell, Jerome Friedman, Steven Kivelson, Roeland Nusse and Lee Ross.

They were joined by 67 other new members and 18 foreign associates. They were elected at the academy's 147th annual meeting on April 27.

Jerome Friedman has been a statistics professor at Stanford since 1982. He is a leading researcher in statistics and data mining and has published on a wide range of data-mining topics, including nearest neighbor classification, logistical regressions and high-dimensional data analysis. His primary research interest is in the area of machine learning. Friedman received his bachelor's degree in physics and doctorate in high-energy particle physics from the University of California-Berkeley. He led the computation research group at SLAC from 1972 to 2003, and he served as the chairman of the Department of Statistics from 1988 to 1991. In 2004 he won the Emanuel and Carol Parzen Award for Statistical Innovation, and he was named a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.

(Friedman also won KDD 2002 Innovation Award)

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