Brian S. Yandell

www.stat.wisc.edu/~yandell | byandell.github.io | brian.yandell @ wisc.edu

I retired in 2023 as Professor Emeritus after more than 40 years of academic success in stats and data science. I now pursue an inspired mix of personal interests and intellectual pursuits, continuing some prior research in systems thinking. I empower partners to develop useful insights from data, leading to papers, (R) software projects and new web tools. I am Founding Director (2019-22) of the campus-wide Data Science Institute and co-created (2016-18 with Michael Ferris and Lauren Michael) the Data Science Hub; earlier (2011-15), I chaired the Statistics Department.

Data Science Insitute (Affiliate)
Wisconsin Institute for Discovery (Discovery Fellow)
Plant Breeding & Plant Genetics Program
Department of Biostatistics & Medical Informatics (Affiliate)
Institute of Environmental Studies (Associate)

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8774-9377

1981 PhD Biostatistics, U CA Berkeley (advisor Kjell A. Doksum)
1978 MA Statistics, U CA Berkeley
1974-5 Watson Fellow
1974 BSc Mathematics, Caltech (Venerable House & Gnome Club)
Research Interests: biometry in general, gene mapping (QTL) and statistical genomics in particular.
Fun Activities: yoga, dancing, hiking, biking, folk music, genealogy.