Biography:Lynn Kuo
Lynn Kuo (born 1949)[1] is a professor emerita of statistics at the University of Connecticut[2] known for her work on statistical decision theory,[3][4] software reliability,[5] and Bayesian inference in phylogeny. With Ming-Hui Chen and Paul O. Lewis, she is the author of Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms, and Applications (CRC Press, 2014).[6][7]
Education and career
Kuo did both her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles,[8] completing her PhD in 1980. Her dissertation, supervised by Thomas S. Ferguson, was Computations and Applications of Mixtures of Dirichlet Processes.[9] She has worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute before joining the Connecticut faculty.[8]
She was the treasurer of the New England Statistical Society,[8] and has also worked as treasurer for the International Chinese Statistical Association.[10]
Awards and honors
Kuo is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[8] In 2013, she won the Outstanding Service Award of the International Chinese Statistical Association.[10]
References
- ↑ Birthdate from Worldcat
- ↑ Lynn Kuo, University of Connecticut Department of Statistics, 2014-11-12, http://stat.uconn.edu/lynn-kuo/, retrieved 2017-10-19
- ↑ The admissibility of the empirical distribution function MP Cohen, L Kuo The Annals of Statistics 1985 [PDF] projecteuclid.org
- ↑ Minimax estimation of a variance TS Ferguson L Kuo Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics 1994 Springer [PDF] ism.ac.jp
- ↑ Handbook of Statistics Software Reliability Volume 25 2005 pages 929-963 https://doi.org/10.1016/S0169-7161(05)25033-2
- ↑ Larget, Bret (April 2015), "Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms and Applications", International Statistical Review 83 (1): 160–161, doi:10.1111/insr.12095_1
- ↑ Oaks, Jamie R. (August 2015), "Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms, and Applications", Systematic Biology 64 (6): 1122–1125, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syv063
- ↑ 8.0 8.1 8.2 8.3 Lynn Kuo, New England Statistical Society, https://nestat.org/about/bio/lynn/, retrieved 2017-10-19
- ↑ Lynn Kuo at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 Outstanding Service Award 2013, International Chinese Statistical Association, http://www.icsa.org/icsa/award/outstanding-service-award-2013, retrieved 2017-10-19
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