Biography:Tianxi Cai
Tianxi Cai (Chinese: 蔡天西, born 1977) is a Chinese biostatistician. She is the John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.[1] Topics in her research include biomarkers, personalized medicine, survival analysis, and health informatics.[2]
Education and career
Cai was born in Wenzhou. She graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She earned her doctorate (Sc.D.) in biostatistics at Harvard in 1999.[3] Her dissertation, Correlated Survival, was supervised by Lee-Jen Wei.[4]
She worked as an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington from 2000 to 2002, before returning to Harvard as a faculty member.
Recognition
Cai was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2011.[5]
Personal
Cai is the daughter of Xiaowan Cai (zh) and sister of T. Tony Cai, also a statistician.[3]
References
- ↑ Boston, 677 Huntington Avenue; Ma 02115 +1495‑1000 (2021-01-05). "Tianxi Cai" (in en-us). https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/profile/tianxi-cai/.
- ↑ "Tianxi Cai", Faculty and Researcher Directory (Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health), https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/tianxi-cai/, retrieved 2018-10-28
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Biosketch, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, https://content.sph.harvard.edu/tcai/biosketch.html, retrieved 2018-10-28
- ↑ Tianxi Cai at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ "ASA Founders Award and Fellows; JSM Plenary Session webcasts", IMS Bulletin (Institute of Mathematical Statistics), October–November 2011, http://bulletin.imstat.org/2011/10/members%E2%80%99-news-octobernovember-2011/
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