Biography
Berthold Lausen has 35 years of experience as medical and trial statistician and data scientist. He contributed to the first conference of the International Federation of Classification Societies (IFCS) in 1987 with a cutting-edge proposal of a three-objects variance estimator and parametric bootstrap to evaluate the confidence and stability of estimated phylogenies with DNA-DNA hybridisation data (with P. O. Degens). He made influential contributions to develop machine learning and nonparametric methods for medical statistics and data science as for example maximally selected rank statistics, p-value adjusted classification and regression trees, bagging survival trees (with M. Schumacher and others). He is a former president of IFCS (2018-19; past president 2020-21, president elect 2016-17), a former president of Data Science Society (GfKl) (2013-19, vice-president 1995-2001, 2004-13) and the founding vice-president of European Association for Data Science (EuADS) 2015-18. Since 1986 he is member of the International Biometric Society (IBS) and Data Science Society (GfKl), since 1998 a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and since 2015 a founding member of the European Association for Data Science (EuADS).
Since 2010 Lausen is Professor in Biometry and Epidemiology at School of Medicine of the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg and 2012-17 full Professor of Statistics and since 2017 of Data Science at the Department of Mathematical Sciences, University of Essex.