Professor of Biostatistics of Harvard University
2007 Elected Fellow Institute of Mathematical Statistics
MERIT Award National Cancer Institute
2006 Elected Member International Statistical Institute
2006 COPSS Presidents’ Award The Committee of Presidents of (for the outstanding statistician) Statistical Societies (COPSS)
Abstract:
Xihong Lin is a Chinese statistician known for her contributions to mixed models, nonparametric and semiparametric regression, and statistical genetics and genomics. As of 2015, she is the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T H Chan School of Public Health and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics.
Dr. Lin’s research focuses on the development and application of statistical and computational methods to analyze high-throughput genetic and genomic data in epidemiological, environmental and clinical studies, and to analyze complex exposure and phenotype data in observational studies.