Biography:Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver

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Short description: Jamaican-born American statistician
Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver
Born
Jamaica
EducationUniversity of Cincinnati North Carolina State University
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsNorth 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 professor in the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University (NCSU).[2]

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.[3] She became a US citizen at age 12, and moved to the US at age 15.[4] She graduated magna cum laude in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1986,[5] and earned her PhD in statistics at NCSU in 1991,[5] becoming possibly the first African-American doctorate from her department.[4] Her dissertation, entitled "Estimation using group-testing procedures: adaptive iteration", supervised by William H. Swallow, concerned adaptive group testing.[6]

After taking a temporary position at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Hughes-Oliver returned to NCSU as a faculty member in 1992.[5] 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.[3][7] 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.[5]

Awards and honors

In 2007 Hughes-Oliver was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[8] 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.[9] Her work also earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.[10] She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).[11]

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