James Booth

James Booth is the department chair and professor in the Department of Statistics and Data Science. His research interests involve basic statistical methodology, including the bootstrap and Monte Carlo methods, clustering, exact inference, mixed models, generalized linear models and applications in bioinformatics. 

He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and has served on the Board of Trustees for the National Institute of Statistical Science since 2012, including a term as chair.

As a faculty member in the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology at CALS, he is also actively involved in the Cornell Statistical Consulting Unit, which provides free advice on statistical issues to faculty and students at Cornell. 

Booth holds a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Kentucky.

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