Jane-Ling Wang (Chinese: 王建玲) is a distinguished professor of statistics at the University of California, Davis[1] who studies dimension reduction, functional data analysis, and aging.

Education and career

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Wang graduated from National Taiwan University in 1975 with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics. She earned a master's of arts in mathematics in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1982, obtained a doctorate in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley; her dissertation, supervised by Lucien Le Cam, was Asymptotically Minimax Estimators for Distributions with Increasing Failure Rate.[2][3][4] After starting her faculty career at the University of Iowa, she moved to Davis in 1984. She chaired the statistics department at Davis from 1999 to 2003.[2]

Awards and honors

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Wang is a fellow of the American Statistical Association[5] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[2] She won the Outstanding Service Award of the International Chinese Statistical Association in 2010.[2] She is the 2016 winner of the Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Award of the American Statistical Association.[1] In 2022 she was elected to the Academia Sinica.[6]

References

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  1. ^ a b Jane-Ling Wang wins 2016 Noether Senior Scholar Award, University of California, Davis Department of Statistics, January 11, 2016, archived from the original on 2017-10-18, retrieved 2017-10-17
  2. ^ a b c d Outstanding Service Award 2010, International Chinese Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-10-18, retrieved 2017-10-17
  3. ^ Jane-Ling Wang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ Jane-Ling Wang, Academia Sinica, retrieved 2023-02-13
  5. ^ Rockwell, Susan (March 26, 1999), "Jane-Ling Wang", News, University of California, Davis, retrieved 2017-10-17
  6. ^ Chung, Jake, "Top research institute selects 19 new members", taipeitimes.com, Taipei Times, retrieved 2022-07-07
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