Biography:Tze Leung Lai

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Short description: American statistician (1945–2023)
Tze Leung Lai
Born(1945-06-28)June 28, 1945
DiedMay 21, 2023(2023-05-21) (aged 77)
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationUniversity of Hong Kong
Columbia University
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsStanford University
ThesisConfidence Sequences and Martingales (1971)
Doctoral advisorDavid Oliver Siegmund
Doctoral studentsYuguo Chen
Zhiliang Ying
Dylan Small
Websitestatweb.stanford.edu/~ckirby/lai/

Tze Leung Lai (June 28, 1945 – May 21, 2023) was a Chinese-American statistician of Hong Kong descent. He was the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Statistics, as well as a professor of Biomedical Data Science and of the Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford University.[1] He co-directed the Center for Innovative Study Design (CISD) at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the recipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award, one of the highest honors in statistics, in 1983.

He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1967. He received an M.A. in 1970 and a Ph.D. in 1971 in Mathematical Statistics from Columbia University.[2]

He supervised 79 doctoral theses and 7 postdoctoral trainees.[3]

He died on May 21, 2023.[4]

Honors and awards

He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1983. He was also awarded a Guggenheim fellowship the same year.[5]

He was a fellow of the American Statistical Association (1986),[6] the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,[7] and Academia Sinica (1994).[8]

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