Mark van der Laan

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.[3] He also developed the targeted maximum likelihood methodology. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Causal Inference.

Mark van der Laan
Born	Mark Johannes van der Laan 1967 (age 53–54) Netherlands
Alma mater	Utrecht University (PhD)
Awards	COPSS Presidents' Award (2005)
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics Biostatistics
Institutions	University of California, Berkeley
Doctoral advisor	Richard D. Gill Peter J. Bickel[1]
Doctoral students	Katherine Pollard[2]
Website	statistics.berkeley.edu/people/mark-van-der-laan

Education

He received his Ph.D. from Utrecht University in 1993 with a dissertation titled "Efficient and Inefficient Estimation in Semiparametric Models".[1]

Career and research

He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2005, the Mortimer Spiegelman Award in 2004, and the van Dantzig Award in 2005.[4][5]

Publications

• Van Der Laan, M.J.; Robins, J.M. (2003). Unified Methods for Censored Longitudinal Data and Causality. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer. ISBN 0-387-95556-9.
• Van Der Laan, M.J.; Rose, S. (2011). Targeted Learning: Causal Inference for Observational and Experimental Data. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer. ISBN 1-441-99781-4.
• Dudoit, S.; Van Der Laan, M.J. (2008). Multiple Testing Procedures with Applications to Genomics. Springer Series in Statistics. Springer. ISBN 0-387-49316-6.

References

1. Mark van der Laan at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
2. Pollard, Katherine Snowden (2003). Computationally intensive statistical methods for analysis of gene expression data. berkeley.edu (PhD thesis). University of California, Berkeley. OCLC 937442296. ProQuest 305339168.
3. "Presidents' Award: Past Award Recipients" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 1 July 2015. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
4. "Mark van der Laan, PhD, is Recipient of 2004 Spiegelman Award". Spring 2005. Archived from the original on 15 July 2014. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
5. "The Van Dantzig Award". Retrieved 2 June 2014.