Name Xihong Lin Role Statistician | Education Tsinghua University | |
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Xihong lin statistical analysis of massive genetic and genomic data
Xihong Lin is a Chinese 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.
Lin received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2006, the Spiegelman award of the outstanding health statistician from the American Public Health Association in 2002, and the MERIT Award from the National Cancer Institute (2007-2016).
Lin was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2000 and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2007, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute in 2006.
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.