Huixia Judy Wang

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Huixia Judy Wang is a statistician who works as a professor of statistics at George Washington University. Topics in her research include quantile regression and the application of biostatistics to cancer. [1]

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Education and career

Wang graduated from Fudan University in 1999 and earned a master's degree from Fudan in 2002. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 2006 from the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign. [1] Her dissertation, Inference on Quantile Regression for Mixed Models with Applications to GeneChip Data, was supervised by Xuming He. [2] She joined the statistics faculty at North Carolina State University in 2006 and moved to George Washington University in 2014. [1] From 2018, she has been serving as program director for the Statistics Program at the National Science Foundation. [3]

Recognition

In 2012, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics gave Wang their Tweedie New Researcher Award. [4] In 2018, Wang was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association [5] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS), "for fundamental and influential contributions to the theory and methodology of quantile regression, high dimensional inference and extreme value theory; for outstanding services to the community". [6] She has been awarded an IMS Medallion Lectureship in 2022. [7]

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References

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  2. Huixia Judy Wang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. "Huixia Wang", Staff Directory, National Science Foundation , retrieved 2021-12-01
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