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Professional Title
Professor, Statistics and Biostatistics, School of Public Health
Email Address
dwitten@uw.edu
Areas of Interest
Statistical Genetics
Big Data
Machine Learning
Daniela Witten is a statistician with broad interests in statistical machine learning and high-dimensional data. She uses tools from convex optimization to tackle large-scale problems, and she is particularly interested in developing statistical machine learning techniques for problems in genomics.
Education
PhD, Statistics, Stanford University, 2010
BS, Mathematics and Biology, with Honors and Distinction, Stanford University, 2005
BS, Mathematics and Biology, with Honors and Distinction, Stanford University, 2005