Adele Cutler | |
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Alma mater | |
Spouse | Richard Cutler |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | Utah State University |
Thesis | Optimization Methods in Statistics (1988) |
Doctoral advisor | Leo Breiman |
Adele Cutler is a statistician known as one of the developers of archetypal analysis [1] and of the random forest technique for ensemble learning. [2] She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at Utah State University. [3]
Originally from England, Cutler moved to New Zealand as a child, [4] and studied mathematics at the University of Waikato and the University of Auckland. [3] She met her husband, statistician Richard Cutler, at the University of Auckland; the couple both went on to graduate study in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley, [4] where she earned a master's degree in 1984 and completed her doctorate in 1988. [3] Her dissertation, Optimization Methods in Statistics, was supervised by Leo Breiman. [5] Her doctoral work with Breiman concerned mathematical optimization techniques in statistics, and introduced archetypal analysis. [6]
After completing her doctorate she joined the faculty at Utah State University in 1988. [4] Her initial research there concerned mixture models, but shifted towards neural networks in the mid-1990s and from there to random decision trees, the basis of the random forest technique. [6]