Biography:Jo Hardin
Johanna Sarah (Jo) Hardin is an American statistician who works as a professor of mathematics at Pomona College. Her research involves high-throughput analysis for human genome data.[1]
Education and career
Hardin is a Pomona graduate, earning a bachelor's degree there in mathematics in 1995. She initially planned to do actuarial science, but was led to statistics by a faculty mentor, Donald Bentley.[2] She went to the University of California, Davis for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 2000.[1] Her dissertation, supervised by David Rocke, was Multivariate Outlier Detection and Robust Clustering with Minimum Covariance Determinant Estimation and S-Estimation.[3]
After postdoctoral studies at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle University, she returned to Pomona in 2002 as a faculty member.[4] She considers John Crowley, her postdoctoral supervisor, to be her "closest mentor".[2]
Recognition
In 2015 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.[5] She won the Waller Education Award of the American Statistical Society in 2007,[1] and Pomona's highest faculty honor, the Wig Distinguished Professor award for excellence in teaching, in 2016.[6]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Johanna S. Hardin, Professor of Mathematics", Faculty directory (Pomona College), June 2015, https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/johanna-s-hardin, retrieved 2017-11-26
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "A Statistician's Journal", Amstat News (American Statistical Association), September 1, 2013, http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2013/09/01/a-statisticians-journey/, retrieved 2017-11-26
- ↑ Jo Hardin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Curriculum vitae, December 2016, http://pages.pomona.edu/~jsh04747/Research/resume.pdf, retrieved 2017-11-26
- ↑ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx, retrieved 2017-11-26
- ↑ Wig Awards, Pomona College, 30 March 2015, https://www.pomona.edu/faculty/wig-awards, retrieved 2017-11-26
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