Biography:Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver
Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver | |
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| Born | Jamaica |
| Education | University of Cincinnati North Carolina State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | North Carolina State University |
Jacqueline Mindy-Mae Hughes-Oliver is a Jamaican-born American statistician, whose research interests include drug discovery and chemometrics.[1] She is a retired professor of the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University (NCSU).[2][3]
Education and career
Hughes-Oliver was born in Jamaica, where she grew up and went to school, living with her grandmother there while her mother worked in the US, in Cincinnati.[4] She became a US citizen at age 12, and moved to the US at age 15.[5] She graduated magna cum laude in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1986,[6] and earned her PhD in statistics at NCSU in 1991,[6] becoming possibly the first African-American doctorate from her department.[5] Her dissertation, entitled "Estimation using group-testing procedures: adaptive iteration", supervised by William H. Swallow, concerned adaptive group testing.[7]
After taking a temporary position at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Hughes-Oliver returned to NCSU as a faculty member in 1992.[6] At NCSU, she directed the Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research, a large research group that she founded in 2005 with a large grant from the National Institutes of Health, and directed the graduate program in statistics beginning in 2007.[4][8] She has also worked as a professor of statistics at George Mason University from 2011 to 2014, but kept her position at NCSU and returned to it.[6]
Awards and honors
In 2007 Hughes-Oliver was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[9] She is the 2014 winner of the Blackwell-Tapia prize, awarded both for her contributions to the methodology and applications of statistics and also for her efforts to increase the diversity of the mathematical sciences.[10] Her work also earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.[11] She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[12]
References
- ↑ Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver: contributions to drug discovery, Stanley Young, Blackwell-Tapia Conference, 2014, retrieved 2017-08-21
- ↑ People: Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, NCSU Dept. of Statistics, retrieved 2017-08-21
- ↑ Byron, Terry (29 February 2024). "Honoring Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver: A Legacy of Dedication and Service". NC State University. https://statistics.sciences.ncsu.edu/2024/02/29/honoring-jacqueline-hughes-oliver-a-legacy-of-dedication-and-service/. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver , Mathematically Gifted and Black, retrieved 2017-08-21
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 Hughes-Oliver, Jacqueline M. (December 2016), "Mentoring to achieve diversity in graduate programs", The American Statistician 71 (1): 55–60, doi:10.1080/00031305.2016.1255661
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2017-08-21
- ↑ Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Golbeck, Amanda L.; Olkin, Ingram; Gel, Yulia R., eds. (2015), Leadership and Women in Statistics, CRC Press, pp. 361–362, ISBN 9781482236453, https://books.google.com/books?id=1BQqCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA361
- ↑ ASA Fellows list , accessed 2017-08-21
- ↑ Hughes-Oliver To Receive 2014 Blackwell-Tapia Prize, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, retrieved 2017-08-21
- ↑ "Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver". https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/jacqueline-m-hughes-oliver/.
- ↑ "2022 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)" (in en). https://www.aaas.org/page/2022-fellows-0.
External links
- Home page
- Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, Scott W. Williams, SUNY Buffalo
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