Xiao-Li Meng (Chinese: 孟晓犁; born 1963) is a Chinese American statistician and the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2001.[2] He has written numerous research papers about Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and other statistical methodology.
Xiao-Li Meng | |
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孟晓犁 | |
| Born | 1963 (age 60–61) |
| Nationality | Chinese American |
| Occupations |
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| Title | Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics |
| Awards | COPSS Presidents' Award (2001) |
| Academic background | |
| Education | |
| Thesis | Towards Complete Results for Some Incomplete-Data Problems (1990) |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald Rubin[1] |
| Academic work | |
| Institutions | Harvard University |
| Website | https://statistics.fas.harvard.edu/people/xiao-li-meng |
From 2004 to 2012, Meng was the Chair of Harvard's Department of Statistics, where he helped create innovative new statistics courses designed to give students a more positive impression of the subject.[3] He edited the journals Bayesian Analysis from 2003 to 2005 and Statistica Sinica from 2005 to 2008.[4] On August 14, 2012, Xiao-Li Meng was appointed dean of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).[5]
Meng received his B.Sc. from Fudan University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University in 1990. He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1997[6] and of the American Statistical Association in 2004.[7] He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020.[8]
References edit
- ^ "Xiao-Li Meng". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
- ^ "Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies: Presidents' Award: Past Award Recipients," National Institute of Statistical Sciences, accessed June 5, 2011, http://nisla05.niss.org/copss/PastAwardsPresidents.pdf Archived May 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Lock, Kari and Xiao-Li Meng. "Real-Life Module Statistics: A Happy Harvard Experiment." International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 11–16, 2010, .
- ^ "Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae of Xiao-Li Meng," Department of Statistics, Harvard University, accessed June 5, 2011, http://www.stat.harvard.edu/Faculty_Content/Meng-cv.pdf.
- ^ "Xiao-Li Meng Appointed Dean of Harvard's Graduate School". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
- ^ "IMS Fellows," Institute of Mathematical Statistics, accessed June 5, 2011, http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm.
- ^ "ASA Fellows," American Statistical Association, accessed June 5, 2011, http://www.amstat.org/careers/fellowslist.cfm.
- ^ "AAAS Fellows Elected" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society.