Adele Cutler is a statistician known as one of the developers of archetypal analysis[1] and of the random forest technique for ensemble learning.
[3] She met her husband, statistician Richard Cutler, at the University of Auckland; the couple both went on to graduate study in statistics at the University of California, Berkeley,[4] where she earned a master's degree in 1984 and completed her doctorate in 1988.
[3] Her dissertation, Optimization Methods in Statistics, was supervised by Leo Breiman.
[5] Her doctoral work with Breiman concerned mathematical optimization techniques in statistics, and introduced archetypal analysis.
[6] After completing her doctorate she joined the faculty at Utah State University in 1988.