Naisyin Wang is a Taiwanese statistician who works as a professor of statistics at the University of Michigan.[1] She was president of the International Chinese Statistical Association in 2010.[1][2]

Education and career

Wang did her undergraduate studies in mathematics at National Tsing Hua University, graduating in 1986. After earning a master's degree in statistics from Ohio State University in 1987, she completed her doctorate from Cornell University in 1992,[1] under the supervision of David Ruppert.[3] She worked as a faculty member at Texas A&M University from 1992 until 2009,[1][4] when she moved to Michigan.[1]

Awards and honors

She is a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the American Statistical Association, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[1]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 Naisyin Wang, University of Michigan Department of Statistics, retrieved 2017-10-15
  2. ↑ Golbeck, Amanda L.; Olkin, Ingram; Gel, Yulia R., eds. (2015), Leadership and Women in Statistics, CRC Press, p. 393, ISBN 9781482236453
  3. ↑ Naisyin Wang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ↑ Agresti, Alan; Meng, Xiao-Li, eds. (2012), Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S., Springer, p. 305, ISBN 9781461436492.
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