Biography:Wei-Yin Loh

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Short description: Singaporean-American statistician

Wei-Yin Loh is a Singaporean statistician.

Loh obtained his Bachelor of Science in mathematics with first-class honours at the University of Singapore in 1974. He remained at the University of Singapore until 1977 to complete a Master of Science in the same subject, then enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley for a PhD in statistics.[1] Loh completed his doctoral dissertation, "Tail-orderings on Symmetric Distributions with Statistical Applications", under the supervision of Erich Leo Lehmann in 1982.[2][3]

Loh is a professor of statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[4] He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1991,[1][5] and to an equivalent honour by the American Statistical Association in 1998.[1][6]

Loh is the father of Po-Shen Loh, a mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University and coach of the US International Mathematical Olympiad team, Po-Ling Loh, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, and Po-Ru Loh, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard University. His brother, Wei-Liem Loh, is a statistician at the National University of Singapore.[7]

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 "Professor Wei-Yin Loh". University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Statistics. https://pages.stat.wisc.edu/~loh/. 
  2. "Wei-yin Loh Professor". University of California, Berkeley Department of Statistics. https://statistics.berkeley.edu/people/wei-yin-loh. 
  3. Wei-Yin Loh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. "Wei-Yin Loh Professor, Statistics". University of Wisconsin–Madison. https://stat.wisc.edu/staff/loh-wei-yin/. 
  5. "Honored IMS Fellows". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. https://imstat.org/honored-ims-fellows/. 
  6. "ASA Fellows". American Statistical Association. https://ww2.amstat.org/fellows/. 
  7. Baker, Tim (10 January 2020). "BREATHE 2 Collaborator Wrote the Code that Advanced UW-CTRI Research". UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. University of Wisconsin. https://ctri.wisc.edu/2020/01/10/breathe-2-collaborator-wrote-the-code-that-advanced-uw-ctri-research/.