Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver

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Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver
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Institutions North Carolina State University

Jacqueline Mindy-Mae Hughes-Oliver is a Jamaican-born American statistician, whose research interests include drug discovery and chemometrics. [1] She is a professor in the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University (NCSU). [2]

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Education and career

Hughes-Oliver was born in Jamaica, where she grew up and went to school, living with her grandmother there while her mother worked in the US, in Cincinnati. [3] She became a US citizen at age 12, and moved to the US at age 15. [4] She graduated magna cum laude in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1986, [5] and earned her PhD in statistics at NCSU in 1991, [5] becoming possibly the first African-American doctorate from her department. [4] Her dissertation, entitled "Estimation using group-testing procedures: adaptive iteration", supervised by William H. Swallow, concerned adaptive group testing. [6]

After taking a temporary position at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Hughes-Oliver returned to NCSU as a faculty member in 1992. [5] At NCSU, she directed the Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research, a large research group that she founded in 2005 with a large grant from the National Institutes of Health, and directed the graduate program in statistics beginning in 2007. [3] [7] She has also worked as a professor of statistics at George Mason University from 2011 to 2014, but kept her position at NCSU and returned to it. [5]

Awards and honors

In 2007 Hughes-Oliver was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [8] She is the 2014 winner of the Blackwell-Tapia prize, awarded both for her contributions to the methodology and applications of statistics and also for her efforts to increase the diversity of the mathematical sciences. [9] Her work also earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree. [10] She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). [11]

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