Iain M. Johnstone

Iain Murray Johnstone ( born 1956 in Melbourne) is an Australian, teaching at Stanford University statistician.

Johnstone made ​​in 1977 with a degree in mathematics at the Australian National University and a Ph.D. in 1981 at Lawrence David Brown at Columbia University ( Admissible Estimation of Poisson Means, Birth - Death Processes and Discrete Dirichlet problem). He is since 1992 Professor of Statistics and Biostatistics at Stanford University, where he has been since 1981. He is also at the Statistics Department, whose board he was from 1994 to 1997, and at the Medical School (Department of Health Research and Policy ).

In the 1990s he was known for applications of wavelet methods for noise reduction in signal and image processing, and turned them in the statistical decision theory. In the 2000s he turned to the theory of random matrices in multidimensional problems of statistics. In Biostatistics he cooperated with doctors in the application of statistical methods, particularly in cardiology and in prostate cancer.

In 2006 he gave a plenary lecture at the International Congress of Mathematicians (ICM ) in Madrid (High Dimensional Statistical Inference and Random Matrices ). He was Guggenheim Fellow and Sloan Fellow and received the Prize of the President of the statistical societies. Johnstone received the Presidential Young Investigator 's Award and the Guy Medal in bronze of the Royal Statistical Society. He was president of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the National Academy of Sciences, the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. In 2004 he held the Forest Lectures.