2026 Sara van de Geer: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	43	1640	1418	32	30	176	20230

Sara van de Geer publication distribution in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Mathematics in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sara van de Geer sits on this spectrum.

42 publications 537+

This scientist: 176 publications — 52nd percentile

52% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 537 publications or more.

Sara van de Geer D-index placement in Mathematics in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Mathematics scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Sara van de Geer sits on this spectrum.

30 D-Index 86+

This scientist: 43 D-Index — 54th percentile

54% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 86 D-Index or more.

Research.com Recognitions

2020 - Member of Academia Europaea
2016 - Wald Memorial Lecturer

Overview

Sara van de Geer is affiliated with ETH Zurich in Switzerland, contributing extensively to the fields of mathematics, computer science, and engineering. Their work spans multiple subfields such as statistics and probability, computational mechanics, artificial intelligence, and computational mathematics.

Their research primarily addresses topics including statistical methods and inference, sparse and compressive sensing techniques, machine learning and algorithms, probabilistic and robust engineering design, tensor decomposition and applications, mathematical approximation and integration, and neural networks and applications.

Frequent coauthors in their research collaborations include Geoffrey Chinot, Matthias Löffler, Felix Kuchelmeister, Francesco Ortelli, and Peter Hinz.

Publications by Sara van de Geer have appeared across a range of venues. These include:

arXiv (Cornell University)
The Annals of Statistics
Mathematical Statistics and Learning
Oberwolfach Reports
SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification

Recent papers from their research portfolio are:

Convergence Rates for Penalized Least Squares Estimators in PDE Constrained Regression Problems, 2020, SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification
De-Biased Sparse PCA: Inference for Eigenstructure of Large Covariance Matrices, 2021, IEEE Transactions on Information Theory
Prediction bounds for higher order total variation regularized least squares, 2021, The Annals of Statistics
On the robustness of minimum norm interpolators and regularized empirical risk minimizers, 2022, The Annals of Statistics
AdaBoost and robust one-bit compressed sensing, 2022, Mathematical Statistics and Learning

Sara van de Geer is recognized as a member of Academia Europaea since 2020 and was the Wald Memorial Lecturer in 2016.

Best Publications

Statistics for High-Dimensional Data: Methods, Theory and Applications

Peter Bhlmann;Sara van de Geer

3006
Citations
The group lasso for logistic regression

Lukas Meier;Sara Van De Geer;Peter Bühlmann

2072
Citations
On asymptotically optimal confidence regions and tests for high-dimensional models

Sara van de Geer;Peter Bühlmann;Ya’acov Ritov;Ruben Dezeure

1650
Citations
A global test for groups of genes: testing association with a clinical outcome

Jelle J. Goeman;Sara A. Van De Geer;Floor De Kort;Hans C. Van Houwelingen

1345
Citations
Empirical Processes in M-Estimation

Sara A. van de Geer

1273
Citations
High-dimensional generalized linear models and the lasso

Sara A. van de Geer

912
Citations
On the conditions used to prove oracle results for the Lasso

Sara A. van de Geer;Peter Bühlmann

824
Citations
High-dimensional additive modeling

Lukas Meier;Sara van de Geer;Peter Bühlmann

549
Citations
Oracle Inequalities and Optimal Inference under Group Sparsity

Karim Lounici;Massimiliano Pontil;Sara van de Geer;Alexandre B. Tsybakov

429
Citations
Locally adaptive regression splines

Enno Mammen;Sara van de Geer

423
Citations
ℓ1-penalization for mixture regression models

Nicolas Städler;Peter Bühlmann;Sara van de Geer

347
Citations
Regularization in Statistics

Peter J. Bickel;Bo Li;Alexandre B. Tsybakov;Sara A. van de Geer

309
Citations
Testing against a high dimensional alternative

Jelle J. Goeman;Sara A. Van De Geer;Hans C. Van Houwelingen

272
Citations
Ecole d'été de probabilités de Saint-Flour XLV

Sara van de Geer

259
Citations
Taking Advantage of Sparsity in Multi-Task Learning

Karim Lounici;Massimiliano Pontil;Alexandre B. Tsybakov;Sara A. van de Geer

248
Citations
Hellinger-Consistency of Certain Nonparametric Maximum Likelihood Estimators

Sara van de Geer

226
Citations
Correlated variables in regression: Clustering and sparse estimation

Peter Bühlmann;Philipp Rütimann;Sara van de Geer;Cun-Hui Zhang

226
Citations
Estimating a Regression Function

Sara van de Geer

220
Citations
Estimation for High‐Dimensional Linear Mixed‐Effects Models Using ℓ1‐Penalization

Jürg Schelldorfer;Peter Bühlmann;Sara Van De Geer

219
Citations
Confidence intervals for high-dimensional inverse covariance estimation

Jana Janková;Sara van de Geer

219
Citations
Penalized quasi-likelihood estimation in partial linear models

Enno Mammen;Sara van de Geer

183
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Peter Bühlmann ETH Zurich

Alexandre B. Tsybakov École Nationale de la Statistique et de l'Administration Économique

Jon A. Wellner University of Washington

Enno Mammen Heidelberg University

Vladimir Koltchinskii Georgia Institute of Technology

Massimiliano Pontil Italian Institute of Technology

Arie Kapteyn University of Southern California

Bin Yu University of California, Berkeley

Leen Stougie Centrum Wiskunde & Informatica

Martin J. Wainwright MIT

External Links

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