Background
Johnstone was born in Melbourne in 1956.
Johnstone was born in Melbourne in 1956.
Johnstone was born in Melbourne in 1956. In 1977 he graduated in mathematics at the Australian National University, specializing in pure mathematics and statistics. Later he obtained an Master of Surgery and a Doctor of Philosophy in statistics from in 1981 under Lawrence Doctorate. Brown with the dissertation titled, Admissible Estimation of Poisson Means, Birth–Death Processes and Discrete Dirichlet Problems.
In the 1990s, he was known for applications of wavelet methods for noise reduction in signal and image processing, and turned them in statistical decision theory. In the 2000s he turned to the theory of random matrices in multidimensional problems of statistics. In Biostatistics he cooperated with medical professionals in the application of statistical methods, particularly in cardiology and in prostate cancer.
He joined the Department of Statistics, Stanford University after completion of his Doctor of Philosophy in 1981.
He is the Marjorie Mhoon Fair Professor in Quantitative Science in the Department of Statistics at Stanford University.