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 also 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.

He has been a professor at Cornell for 20 years, joining the since-restructured Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology in CALS in 2004. For nine years, Booth served as chair of the Department of Biological Statistics and Computational Biology. Before joining Cornell, he was an associate professor and then full professor at the University of Florida for several years. He remains a CALS faculty member in the Department of Statistics and Data Science. He holds a Ph.D. in statistics from the University of Kentucky.