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  • 2026 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
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  • 2025 - Research.com Engineering and Technology in United States Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Mathematics in United States Leader Award
  • 2019 - Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences
  • 2019 - Wald Memorial Lecturer
  • 2018 - Member of the National Academy of Sciences
  • 1998 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Trevor Hastie is affiliated with Stanford University in the United States. Their research spans various areas within biochemistry, genetics, and molecular biology, with a particular focus on statistics and probability, molecular biology, genetics, artificial intelligence, and radiology, nuclear medicine, and imaging.

Their work covers several main topics including statistical methods and inference, genetic associations and epidemiology, statistical methods and Bayesian inference, advanced statistical methods and models, gene expression and cancer classification, bioinformatics and genomic networks, and liver disease diagnosis and treatment.

Trevor Hastie has published frequently with several co-authors, including Robert Tibshirani, Gareth James, Daniela Witten, Bradley Efron, and Manuel A. Rivas.

Typical venues for their publications include arXiv (Cornell University), bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), UNC Libraries, Biostatistics, and Nature Reviews Methods Primers.

Some recent papers authored by or involving Trevor Hastie are:

  • "Surprises in high-dimensional ridgeless least squares interpolation", 2022, The Annals of Statistics
  • "Principal component analysis", 2022, Nature Reviews Methods Primers
  • "Genetics of 35 blood and urine biomarkers in the UK Biobank", 2021, Nature Genetics
  • "An inflammatory aging clock (iAge) based on deep learning tracks multimorbidity, immunosenescence, frailty and cardiovascular aging", 2021, Nature Aging
  • "Elastic Net Regularization Paths for All Generalized Linear Models", 2023, Journal of Statistical Software

The scientist has authored books published by Springer International Publishing and Cambridge University Press. Notable titles include "An Introduction to Statistical Learning" (2021 and a 2023 edition) and "Computer Age Statistical Inference, Student Edition" (2021).

Trevor Hastie has received several awards such as election to the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019, delivering the Wald Memorial Lectures in 2019, membership in the National Academy of Sciences since 2018, and being a Fellow of the American Statistical Association since 1998.

Best Publications

  • The Elements of Statistical Learning: Data Mining, Inference, and Prediction

    Trevor Hastie;Robert J. Tibshirani;Jerome Friedman

  • Regularization and variable selection via the elastic net

    Hui Zou;Trevor Hastie

  • Regularization Paths for Generalized Linear Models via Coordinate Descent

    Jerome Friedman;Trevor Hastie;Robert Tibshirani

  • The Elements of Statistical Learning

    Trevor Hastie;Robert Tibshirani;Jerome H. Friedman

  • An introduction to statistical learning

    Gareth James;Daniela Witten;Trevor Hastie;Robert Tibshirani

  • Generalized Additive Models.

    R. A. Brown;T. J. Hastie;R. J. Tibshirani

  • Least angle regression

    Bradley Efron;Trevor Hastie;Iain Johnstone;Robert Tibshirani

  • The elements of statistical learning. 2001

    Trevor Hastie;Robert Tibshirani;Jerome Friedman

  • Generalized Additive Models

    Trevor J. Hastie;Robert Tibshirani

  • Additive Logistic Regression : A Statistical View of Boosting

    Jerome Friedman;Trevor Hastie;Robert Tibshirani

  • A statistical explanation of MaxEnt for ecologists

    Jane Elith;Steven J. Phillips;Trevor Hastie;Miroslav Dudík

  • Sparse inverse covariance estimation with the graphical lasso

    Jerome Friedman;Trevor Hastie;Robert Tibshirani

  • A working guide to boosted regression trees

    J. Elith;J. R. Leathwick;T. Hastie

  • Repeated observation of breast tumor subtypes in independent gene expression data sets

    Therese Sørlie;Robert Tibshirani;Joel Parker;Trevor Hastie

  • Estimating the number of clusters in a data set via the gap statistic

    Robert Tibshirani;Guenther Walther;Trevor Hastie

  • Missing value estimation methods for DNA microarrays.

    Olga G. Troyanskaya;Michael N. Cantor;Gavin Sherlock;Patrick O. Brown

  • Sparse Principal Component Analysis

    Hui Zou;Trevor Hastie;Robert Tibshirani

  • Diagnosis of multiple cancer types by shrunken centroids of gene expression

    Robert Tibshirani;Trevor Hastie;Balasubramanian Narasimhan;Gilbert Chu

  • Statistical Models in S

    John M. Chambers;Trevor J. Hastie

  • Statistical Learning with Sparsity: The Lasso and Generalizations

    Trevor Hastie;Robert Tibshirani;Martin Wainwright

  • Addendum: Regularization and variable selection via the elastic net

    Hui Zou;Trevor Hastie

Frequent Co-Authors

Robert Tibshirani
Robert Tibshirani Stanford University
Jerome H. Friedman
Jerome H. Friedman Stanford University
Bradley Efron
Bradley Efron Stanford University
Patrick O. Brown
Patrick O. Brown Stanford University
Jane Elith
Jane Elith University of Melbourne
Saharon Rosset
Saharon Rosset Tel Aviv University
Manuel A. Rivas
Manuel A. Rivas Stanford University
Daniela Witten
Daniela Witten University of Washington
Ping Li
Ping Li Baidu (China)
David Botstein
David Botstein Princeton University

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