Ren Witten studeyrys er y vaddaght as y vea-oaylleeaght ec Ollooscoill Stanford, raad dirree ee magh ayns 2005. Hannee ee ayn er son e ronsaghey eear-cheimagh raad chossyn ee keim vainshtyragh 'sy staddyssaght ayns 2006.[4][5] Va Schoillaraght Gertrude Mary Cox liorish yn American Statistical Association bronnit urree ayns 2008.[6] Va e kione argane ollooagh, A penalized matrix decomposition, and its applications oaseirit liorish Robert Tibshirani.[7][8] Ren ee obbraghey marish Trevor Hastie er yn oltscarrey co-cheintys canoanagh.[9] Ren ee co-screeu An Introduction to Statistical Learning ayns 2013.[1]
Ta Witten cur ynsagh jashaghtagh staddyssaghtoil rish lheihyssyn persoonit as rish jee-choadal y ghienoam.[10] T'ee gymmydey ynsagh jeshaghtagh dy oltscarrey settyn d'ysseree ayns oaylleeaght y neayrchorys as gienoamaght.[11] T'ee boirey er ny mooadyn d'ysseree ayns ny h-oaylleeaghtyn bea-lheihysagh.[12]
V'ee pointit dys Ollooscoill Washington myr Olloo Genentech ayns 2010.[13] Chur Witten rish y tuarastyl 2012 Evolution of Translational Omics, chiarail y cliaghtey share ayns çhyndaa ronsaghey oamaghtyn dys lheelannyn.[14][15]