Lucas Janson

2.5k total citations · 2 hit papers
25 papers, 1.1k citations indexed

About

Lucas Janson is a scholar working on Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence and Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. According to data from OpenAlex, Lucas Janson has authored 25 papers receiving a total of 1.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 10 papers in Statistics and Probability, 6 papers in Artificial Intelligence and 4 papers in Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition. Recurrent topics in Lucas Janson's work include Statistical Methods and Inference (9 papers), Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (5 papers) and Machine Learning and Algorithms (4 papers). Lucas Janson is often cited by papers focused on Statistical Methods and Inference (9 papers), Statistical Methods in Clinical Trials (5 papers) and Machine Learning and Algorithms (4 papers). Lucas Janson collaborates with scholars based in United States, France and Denmark. Lucas Janson's co-authors include Marco Pavone, Edward Schmerling, Emmanuel J. Candès, Ashley Clark, Jinchi Lv, Yingying Fan, Brian Ichter, Rina Foygel Barber, Weijie Su and Trevor Hastie and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of the American Statistical Association, Annals of Surgery and Biometrika.

In The Last Decade

Lucas Janson

23 papers receiving 1.1k citations

Hit Papers

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Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Fast marching tree: A fast marching sampling-based method for optimal motion planning in many dimensions

2015 325 citations Lucas Janson, Edward Schmerling et al. The International Journal of Robotics Research profile →
Panning for Gold: ‘Model-X’ Knockoffs for High Dimensional Controlled Variable Selection

2018 302 citations Emmanuel J. Candès, Yingying Fan et al. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology) profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Lucas Janson United States	13	422	269	245	242	202	25	1.1k
Dong Xu China	19	365 0.9×	19 0.1×	317 1.3×	81 0.3×	99 0.5×	52	1.1k
Jianguo Sun China	15	163 0.4×	72 0.3×	294 1.2×	63 0.3×	53 0.3×	64	825
Alexander Jung Finland	15	91 0.2×	68 0.3×	235 1.0×	18 0.1×	97 0.5×	73	747
Muhammad Moinuddin Saudi Arabia	16	84 0.2×	9 0.0×	153 0.6×	126 0.5×	132 0.7×	149	1.1k
Masahiro Tanaka Japan	15	61 0.1×	31 0.1×	263 1.1×	36 0.1×	125 0.6×	160	986
Zhen Xiang United States	13	158 0.4×	75 0.3×	314 1.3×	14 0.1×	37 0.2×	42	591
Rami Mangoubi United States	14	80 0.2×	50 0.2×	116 0.5×	141 0.6×	334 1.7×	54	976
Lingji Chen China	14	42 0.1×	23 0.1×	360 1.5×	117 0.5×	459 2.3×	72	1.0k
Hamid Khaloozadeh Iran	18	57 0.1×	19 0.1×	308 1.3×	193 0.8×	545 2.7×	183	1.2k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Lucas Janson

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20 of 20 papers shown

Xu, Lily, et al.. (2025). Context in Public Health for Underserved Communities: A Bayesian Approach to Online Restless Bandits. Proceedings of the AAAI Conference on Artificial Intelligence. 39(27). 28195–28203.

Janson, Lucas, et al.. (2025). Surrogate-Based Global Sensitivity Analysis with Statistical Guarantees via Floodgate. SIAM/ASA Journal on Uncertainty Quantification. 13(2). 563–590.

Imai, Kosuke, et al.. (2024). Using Machine Learning to Test Causal Hypotheses in Conjoint Analysis. Political Analysis. 32(3). 329–344. 2 indexed citations

Barber, Rina Foygel & Lucas Janson. (2022). Testing goodness-of-fit and conditional independence with approximate co-sufficient sampling. The Annals of Statistics. 50(5). 7 indexed citations

Zhang, Kelly, Lucas Janson, & Susan A. Murphy. (2021). Statistical Inference with M-Estimators on Bandit Data.. arXiv (Cornell University). 1 indexed citations

Ma, Siyuan, Boyu Ren, Himel Mallick, et al.. (2021). A statistical model for describing and simulating microbial community profiles. PLoS Computational Biology. 17(9). e1008913–e1008913. 40 indexed citations

Wang, Wenshuo & Lucas Janson. (2021). A high-dimensional power analysis of the conditional randomization test and knockoffs. Biometrika. 109(3). 631–645. 6 indexed citations

Liu, Molei, Eugene Katsevich, Lucas Janson, & Aaditya Ramdas. (2021). Fast and powerful conditional randomization testing via distillation. Biometrika. 109(2). 277–293. 17 indexed citations

Janson, Lucas, et al.. (2020). Cross-validation Confidence Intervals for Test Error. arXiv (Cornell University). 33. 16339–16350. 2 indexed citations

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Bates, Stephen, et al.. (2020). Metropolized Knockoff Sampling. Figshare. 34 indexed citations

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Candès, Emmanuel J., Yingying Fan, Lucas Janson, & Jinchi Lv. (2018). Panning for Gold: ‘Model-X’ Knockoffs for High Dimensional Controlled Variable Selection. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 80(3). 551–577. 302 indexed citations breakdown →

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Janson, Lucas, Brian Ichter, & Marco Pavone. (2017). Deterministic sampling-based motion planning: Optimality, complexity, and performance. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 37(1). 46–61. 73 indexed citations

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Janson, Lucas, Rina Foygel Barber, & Emmanuel J. Candès. (2016). EigenPrism: Inference for High Dimensional Signal-to-Noise Ratios. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B (Statistical Methodology). 79(4). 1037–1065. 31 indexed citations

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Janson, Lucas & Weijie Su. (2016). Familywise error rate control via knockoffs. Electronic Journal of Statistics. 10(1). 23 indexed citations

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Janson, Lucas, Edward Schmerling, Ashley Clark, & Marco Pavone. (2015). Fast marching tree: A fast marching sampling-based method for optimal motion planning in many dimensions. The International Journal of Robotics Research. 34(7). 883–921. 325 indexed citations breakdown →

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Gholami, Sepideh, Lucas Janson, David J. Worhunsky, et al.. (2015). Number of Lymph Nodes Removed and Survival after Gastric Cancer Resection: An Analysis from the US Gastric Cancer Collaborative. Journal of the American College of Surgeons. 221(2). 291–299. 74 indexed citations

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Schmerling, Edward, Lucas Janson, & Marco Pavone. (2015). Optimal sampling-based motion planning under differential constraints: The driftless case. PubMed. 2015. 2368–2375. 40 indexed citations

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Janson, Lucas, William Fithian, & Trevor Hastie. (2015). Effective degrees of freedom: a flawed metaphor. Biometrika. 102(2). 479–485. 29 indexed citations

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Poultsides, George A., Thuy B. Tran, Eduardo Zambrano, et al.. (2015). Sarcoma Resection With and Without Vascular Reconstruction. Annals of Surgery. 262(4). 632–640. 42 indexed citations

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Janson, Lucas & Bala Rajaratnam. (2013). A Methodology for Robust Multiproxy Paleoclimate Reconstructions and Modeling of Temperature Conditional Quantiles. Journal of the American Statistical Association. 109(505). 63–77. 2 indexed citations

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