Andreas Buja Faculty Profile

Andreas Buja
Liem Sioe Liong/ First Pacific Company Professor; Professor of Statistics

PhD, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETHZ), 1980

Research Areas
Multivariate statistics; nonparametric statistics; data visualization

Current Projects
Boosting; Bagging

Academic Positions Held
Wharton: 2002-present (name Liem Sioe Liong/ First Pacific Company Professor, 2003). Previous appointment: University of Washington, Seattle. Visiting appointment: Stanford University

Other Positions
Member, Technical Staff, Bellcore/Telcordia, 1987-94; Member, Technical Staff, AT&T Bell Labs, 1994-96; Technology Consultant, AT&T Labs, 1996-2001

Career and Recent Professional Awards; Teaching Awards
Fellow, American Statistical Association, 1994

Professional Leadership 2003-2007
Editor, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 1997-2001; Advisory Editor, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 2001-present

Representative Publications
(with D.F. Swayne)
"Visualization Methodology for Multidimensional Scaling." Journal of Classification (2002).

(with D. Cook, J. Cabrera and C. Hurley)
"Projection Pursuit Indices Based on Orthogonal Function Expansions." Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (1995).

(with T. Hastie and R. Tibshirani)
"Linear Smoothers and the Additive Model." The Annals of Statistics (1989).