Dr. Bertrand Clarke will join the Department of Statistics on January 1, 2027. Bertrand earned his PhD in Statistics at the University of Illinois-Champaign-Urbana in 1989.  His early research focused on asymptotics, prior selection in Bayesian statistics, and mathematical modeling of biological systems. His thesis work was given the 1990 Browder J. Thompson award for authors under age 30 of papers in IEEE journals. 

He spent three years as an Assistant Professor at Purdue University before moving to the University of British Columbia where he worked 1992-2008. His first sabbatical was at University College London and his second sabbatical was at Duke University where he was a visiting scholar in the `Large P Small N’ program at SAMSI. 

In Spring 2008 he spent three months at the Newton Institute at Cambridge University.  Later in 2008, he moved to the University of Miami where he worked at the medical school for five years, While there, he started MS and PhD programs in biostatistics.  After this, he became Head the Department of Statistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln for 11 years.  He also had a three month sabbatical at Bocconi University in 2025.

He is a Fellow of the ASA (2014), IMS (2019), ISBA (2022). He is also a senior member of the IEEE (2020) and a member of the Honor Society of Agriculture (2023).  He has been an editor for three different journals and associate editor for several more.  He has served on numerous national and international committees including three years on the Savage Award Committee (best thesis prize in Bayesian statistics).

His current foci of research are predictive statistics and statistical methodology in genomic data.  In addition to numerous publications in refereed journals, he authored a PhD level textbook on data mining and machine learning in 2009 for Springer (with solutions manual) and a research monograph on predictive statistics in 2018 for Cambridge University Press.