Scholar
Susan P Holmes
Google Scholar ID: Z5Zjy6cAAAAJ
Professor of Statistics, Stanford University
Citations & Impact
Citations
89,365
H-index
58
i10-index
154
Publications
20
Co-authors
79
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Contact
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Publications
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Academic Achievements
- Elected member of EMBO (European Molecular Biology Organization)
- Fellow of the Fields Institute
- Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics
- Moderator for the stat.AP section of arXiv
- Bass Fellow in Undergraduate Education at Stanford University
Background
- Data scientist specialized in exploring and visualizing complex biological data
- Trained in the French School of Data Analysis (Analyse des Données) in the 1980s
- Interested in integrating phylogenetic trees, community interaction graphs, metabolic networks with sequencing data and clinical covariates
- Uses computational statistics—particularly nonparametric, computer-intensive methods such as the bootstrap and MCMC—to study complex biological phenomena including immune system–cancer interactions, resilience and biomarker detection in the human microbiome, and drug resistance in HIV
- Enjoys teaching with R and BioConductor and strives to make all work freely available
