Handbook of Big Data

Peter Buhlmann is a professor of statistics at ETH Zurich, Switzerland, fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, elected member of the International Statistical Institute, and co-author of the book titled Statistics for High-Dimensional Data: Methods, Theory and Applications. He was named a Thomson Reuters' 2014 Highly Cited Researcher in mathematics, served on various editorial boards and as editor of the Annals of Statistics, and delivered numerous presentations including a Medallion Lecture at the 2009 Joint Statistical Meetings, a read paper to the Royal Statistical Society in 2010, the 14th Bahadur Memorial Lectures at the University of Chicago, Illinois, USA, and other named lectures.

Petros Drineas is an associate professor in the Computer Science Department at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, New York, USA. He is the recipient of an Outstanding Early Research Award from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, an NSF CAREER award, and two fellowships from the European Molecular Biology Organization. He has served as a visiting professor at the US Sandia National Laboratories; visiting fellow at the Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles; long-term visitor at the Simons Institute for the Theory of Computing, University of California, Berkeley; program director in two divisions at the US National Science Foundation; and worked for industrial labs. He is a co-organizer of the series of workshops on Algorithms for Modern Massive Datasets and his research has been featured in numerous popular press articles.

Michael Kane is a member of the research faculty at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA. He is a winner of the American Statistical Association's Chambers Statistical Software Award for The Bigmemory Project, a set of software libraries that allow the R programming environment to accommodate large datasets for statistical analysis. He