Mark van der Laan

Mark van der Laan

Formal Title
Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics
Primary Affiliation
UC Berkeley Center for Targeted Learning (CTL)
Biography

Mark Johannes van der Laan is the Jiann-Ping Hsu/Karl E. Peace Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has made contributions to survival analysis, semiparametric statistics, multiple testing, and causal inference. He also developed the targeted maximum likelihood methodology. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Causal Inference.

He received his Ph.D. from Utrecht University in 1993 with a dissertation titled “Efficient and Inefficient Estimation in Semiparametric Models”. He received the COPSS Presidents’ Award in 2005, the Mortimer Spiegelman Award in 2004, and the van Dantzig Award in 2005.

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2121 Berkeley Way #5311
Berkeley, CA 94720
United States