Daniela Witten

Daniela Witten
Daniela Witten
	Witten at the SiliconAngle digital community TheCube in 2018
Alma mater	Stanford University (BS, PhD)
Known for	An Introduction to Statistical Learning
Spouse	Ari Steinberg
Parents	Edward Witten (father); Chiara Nappi (mother);
Relatives	Ilana B. Witten (sister); Louis Witten (grandfather); Matt Witten (uncle); Benjamin Witten (great-uncle);
Awards	Forbes 30 Under 30 (2012–2014); National Science Foundation CAREER Award (2013); Mortimer Spiegelman Award (2019); COPSS Presidents' Award (2022);
	Scientific career
Fields	Statistics; Machine learning;
Institutions	University of Washington
Thesis	A penalized matrix decomposition, and its applications (2010)
Doctoral advisor	Robert Tibshirani
Website	faculty.washington.edu/dwitten

Daniela M. Witten is an American biostatistician. She is a professor and the Dorothy Gilford Endowed Chair of Mathematical Statistics at the University of Washington. Her research investigates the use of machine learning to understand high-dimensional data.