The Department of Statistics at Florida State University has announced that Robert Tibshirani, Professor of Statistics and Professor of Biomedical Data Science at Stanford University, is the 2025 Myles Hollander Distinguished Lecturer.

Tibshirani will present “Univariate-Guided Sparse Regression” at 3:30 pm, Friday, October 17, 2025, in the Psychology Department Auditorium on the FSU main campus in Tallahassee. The live talk will also be available via Zoom (and a recording will be posted online afterwards). Please use the link at https://stat.fsu.edu/HollanderLecture to register to attend the talk.

Robert Tibshirani received a BS in statistics and computer science from the University of Waterloo (1979), MS in statistics from the University of Toronto (1980), and PhD in statistics from Stanford University (1984). He has maintained appointments in statistics and the biomedical sciences throughout his career, beginning with his first faculty appointment at the University of Toronto in 1985 in the Department of Statistics and in the Department of Preventive Medicine and Biostatistics. He moved to Stanford University in 1998 and, in addition to his professorship in the Department of Statistics, was professor in the Departments of Public Health Sciences, Health Research and Policy, and, currently, Biomedical Data Science.

Tibshirani’s research contributions provide novel, effective methods that have significantly shaped modern statistical theory and practice. He introduced the Lasso (1996), which is fundamental in high dimensional statistics. He is co-author of five influential books, including Generalized Additive Models (1990), An Introduction to the Bootstrap (1993), and The Elements of Statistical Learning (2001). Recent awards include the COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship, the WNAR Outstanding Impact Award, and the ISI Founders Statistics Prize. He is an elected Fellow of the ASA, the IMS, the Royal Society of Canada, and the Royal Society. He is an elected member of the National Academy of Sciences.

The Myles Hollander Distinguished Lectureship was established by the Robert O. Lawton Distinguished Professor and statistics professor emeritus at Florida State University Myles Hollander, in appreciation of the university, its statistics department and the statistics profession. The annual lectureship recognizes an internationally renowned leader and pioneering researcher in statistics who has made a sustained impact on the field, and the lectures will feature topics spanning the breadth of statistics.

Myles Hollander joined the FSU Department of Statistics in 1965 upon completion of his MS and PhD in statistics at Stanford University after earning his BS in mathematics from Carnegie Institute of Technology. He made substantial and enduring research contributions to nonparametric statistics, reliability theory, survival analysis, biostatistics and probability theory, among other areas. Hollander co-authored textbooks on nonparametric statistics, biostatistics and introductory statistics. Hollander was Fellow of the ASA and IMS, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. He served as editor of JASA Theory and Methods, and received the 2003 ASA Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Award. He retired from FSU in 2007 after 42 years of service and passed away in early 2025.

A celebration of Myles Hollander’s life and contributions will be held Saturday, October 18, 2025 on the FSU campus. For more information, please contact events@stat.fsu.edu.