Mark J. van der Laan

Mark J. van der Laan
Born 1967
Netherlands
Fields Statistics, Biostatistics
Institutions University of California, Berkeley
Alma mater Utrecht University (PhD)
Doctoral advisor Richard D. Gill, with guidance by Peter J. Bickel
Notable awards COPSS Presidents' Award (2005)

Mark J. 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.[1] He also developed the targeted maximum likelihood methodology.

He received his Ph.D. from Utrecht University in 1993 with a dissertation titled "Efficient and Inefficient Estimation in Semiparametric Models".[2] He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2005, the Mortimer Spiegelman Award in 2004, and the van Dantzig Award in 2005.[3][4]

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