Adele Cutler is a statistician known as one of the developers of archetypal analysis^[1] and of the random forest technique for ensemble learning.^[2] She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at Utah State University.^[3]

Originally from England, Cutler moved to New Zealand as a child,^[4] and studied mathematics at the University of Waikato and the University of Auckland.^[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.^[4] Her initial research there concerned mixture models, but shifted towards neural networks in the mid-1990s and from there to random decision trees, the basis of the random forest technique.^[6]

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