Professor of Statistics and member of BioX, Stanford University.
John Henry Samter University Fellow in Undergraduate Education.
co-Director of the Mathematical and Computational Sciences IDP.
Member of the Scientific Advisory board of the Fields Institute.
Moderator for the stat.AP arxiv.
Editor for the IMS-Cambridge Series Monographs and Textbooks in Statistics and Probability.
I was a Researcher at INRA, Montpellier.
Office: Sequoia 102 and Clark S251.

Research

Brought up in the French School of Data Analysis (Analyse des Données) in the 1980’s, I specialize in exploring and visualizing complex biological data.

I am interested in integrating the information provided by phylogenetic trees, community interaction graphs and metabolic networks with sequencing data and clinical covariates.

I use computational statistics, in particular, nonparametric computer intensive methods such as the bootstrap and MCMC to draw inferences about many complex biological phenomena, interactions between the immune system and cancer, resilience in the human microbiome after antibiotic use and drug resistance in HIV.

I enjoy teaching using R and BioConductor and try to make everything I do freely available.

Upcoming and Recent Talks:

Big Data Science Talk : Ghent, Belgium, May 10, 2015
Big Data in Medicine: Stanford, May 22nd, 2015
Statistical Learning in Biological Systems from Perturbations, Ascona, 2015
UseR! 2015 :Aalborg, Denmark, July 2015
Stamps, MBL Woodshole: August 2015
JSM, Seattle, August 2015.

Susan Holmes

Research

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