Xihong Lin

Xihong Lin (Chinese: 林希虹) is a Chinese-American statistician known for her contributions to mixed models, nonparametric and semiparametric regression, and statistical genetics and genomics. As of 2015, she is the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics.

The native form of this personal name is Lin Xihong. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Lin received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2006,[1] the Spiegelman award of the outstanding health statistician from the American Public Health Association in 2002, and the MERIT Award [2] from the National Cancer Institute (2007-2016).

Lin was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2000[3] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2007, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute in 2006.[4][5] She won the Florence Nightingale David Award of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies in 2017 "for leadership and collaborative research in statistical genetics and bioinformatics; and for passion and dedication in mentoring students and young statisticians".[6] Lin was elected to the National Academy of Medicine in 2018.[7]

Lin received her B.Sc. from Tsinghua University in 1989 and her Ph.D. in biostatistics from the University of Washington in 1994, where her supervisor was Norman Breslow. Her dissertation was Bias Correction in Generalized Linear Mixed Models.[8]

References
  1. "Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies: Presidents' Award: Past Award Recipients," National Institute of Statistical Sciences, accessed August 14, 2011, http://nisla05.niss.org/copss/PastAwardsPresidents.pdf Archived May 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine,
  2. "MERIT Award"
  3. "ASA Fellows," American Statistical Association, accessed August 14, 2011, http://www.amstat.org/careers/fellowslist.cfm.
  4. "IMS Fellows," Institute of Mathematical Statistics, accessed August 14, 2011, http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm Archived 2014-03-02 at the Wayback Machine.
  5. "Seventh Annual Janet L. Norwood Award". UAB School of Public Health. Retrieved 9 July 2017.
  6. Florence Nightingale David Award, Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies, retrieved 2018-11-04
  7. "Francesca Dominici, Xihong Lin elected to National Academy of Medicine," Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, accessed October 29, 2018, .
  8. Xihong Lin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.