Biography:Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver
Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver | |
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| Born | Jamaica |
| Education | University of Cincinnati North Carolina State University |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | North 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]
References
- ↑ Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver: contributions to drug discovery, Stanley Young, Blackwell-Tapia Conference, 2014, retrieved 2017-08-21
- ↑ People: Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, NCSU Dept. of Statistics, retrieved 2017-08-21
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver , Mathematically Gifted and Black, retrieved 2017-08-21
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Hughes-Oliver, Jacqueline M. (December 2016), "Mentoring to achieve diversity in graduate programs", The American Statistician 71 (1): 55–60, doi:10.1080/00031305.2016.1255661
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2017-08-21
- ↑ Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ↑ Golbeck, Amanda L.; Olkin, Ingram; Gel, Yulia R., eds. (2015), Leadership and Women in Statistics, CRC Press, pp. 361–362, ISBN 9781482236453, https://books.google.com/books?id=1BQqCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA361
- ↑ ASA Fellows list , accessed 2017-08-21
- ↑ Hughes-Oliver To Receive 2014 Blackwell-Tapia Prize, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, retrieved 2017-08-21
- ↑ "Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver". https://mathematicallygiftedandblack.com/honorees/jacqueline-m-hughes-oliver/.
- ↑ "2022 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)" (in en). https://www.aaas.org/page/2022-fellows-0.
External links
- Home page
- Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, Scott W. Williams, SUNY Buffalo
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