Mark J. van der Laan, PhD
Professor, Biostatistics and Statistics
- Endowed Chair, Jiann-Piang Hsu and Karl E. Peace in Biostatistics
Mark Johannes van der Laan is the Jiann-Ping Hsu E. Peace Professor of Biostatistics and Statistics.
Phone: (510) 643-9866
Address: 2121 Berkeley Way #5311
Berkeley, CA 94720
Berkeley, CA 94720
Biography
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. He also developed the targeted maximum likelihood methodology. He is a founding editor of the Journal of Causal Inference.
He received his Ph.D. from Utrecht University in 1993 with a dissertation titled “Efficient and Inefficient Estimation in Semiparametric Models”. He received the COPSS Presidents’ Award in 2005, the Mortimer Spiegelman Award in 2004, and the van Dantzig Award in 2005.
Research Interests
- Causal inference in longitudinal studies
- Optimal methods for high dimensional censored data
- Computational biology
- Data adaptive learning
Education
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PhD – Statistics
University of Utrecht, 1993 -
MS – Statistics
University of Utrecht, 1990
Publications
Courses Taught
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- PH C240B
- Biostatistical Methods: Survival Analysis and Causality
- PH 243A
- Multivariate Statistical Methods in Genomics
- PH 243D
- Adaptive Designs
- PH C246A
- Censored Longitudinal Data and Causality
- PH 296
- Causal Inference Seminar
Articles Featuring Mark van der Laan:
A critical window: Early malnutrition sets stage for poor growth and even death, researchers find
September 13, 2023
UC Berkeley research teams wins $100k prize for long COVID-19 prediction model
April 11, 2023
Doctoral candidate Waverly Wei wins Student Paper Award
March 7, 2022
Berkeley Public Health student profile: Pablo Freyria Duenas
August 23, 2021
Novo Nordisk and UC Berkeley launch new joint initiative for causal inference
October 26, 2020
Jennifer Ahern awarded major NIH grant to study the effects of community violence on maternal and infant health
March 5, 2020