Grace Yun Yi | |
|---|---|
| Title | Professor |
| Academic background | |
| Alma mater | Sichuan University (B.Sc., M.Sc.) York University (M.A.) University of Toronto (Ph.D.) |
| Doctoral advisor | Donald A. S. Fraser |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Waterloo (2000-2019) University of Western Ontario (2019-) |
Grace Yun Yi is a professor of the University of Western Ontario where she currently holds a Tier I Canada Research Chair in Data Science. [1] [2] She was a professor at the University of Waterloo,Canada,where she holds a University Research Chair in Statistical and Actuarial Science. Her research concerns event history analysis with missing data and its applications in medicine,engineering,and social science. [3]
Yi earned bachelor's and master's degrees from Sichuan University,China,in 1986 and 1989. She moved to Canada and continued her studies with another master's degree from York University in 1996,and a Ph.D. from the University of Toronto in 2000 under the supervision of Donald A. S. Fraser. [3] [4] She came to Waterloo as a postdoctoral researcher,and then continued there as an assistant professor in 2001. [3]
Yi won the CRM–SSC Prize of the Statistical Society of Canada in 2010. [5] Her work with Xianming Tan and Runze Li won the Canadian Journal of Statistics Award for 2016. [6]
In 2015 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for research excellence in developing statistical theory and methods,particularly in missing and mis-measured data;for important contributions to biostatistics;and for excellence in statistical education and mentoring students." [7] [8] She is also a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. [9] She was elected chair of the ASA Lifetime Data Science Section in 2021. [10]