Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver

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Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver
Born
Jamaica
Education University of Cincinnati North Carolina State University
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
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 retired professor of the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University (NCSU). [2] [3]

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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. [4] She became a US citizen at age 12, and moved to the US at age 15. [5] She graduated magna cum laude in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1986, [6] and earned her PhD in statistics at NCSU in 1991, [6] becoming possibly the first African-American doctorate from her department. [5] Her dissertation, entitled "Estimation using group-testing procedures: adaptive iteration", supervised by William H. Swallow, concerned adaptive group testing. [7]

After taking a temporary position at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Hughes-Oliver returned to NCSU as a faculty member in 1992. [6] 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. [4] [8] 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. [6]

Awards and honors

In 2007 Hughes-Oliver was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. [9] 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. [10] Her work also earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree. [11] She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS). [12]

References

  1. ↑ Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver: contributions to drug discovery, Stanley Young, Blackwell-Tapia Conference, 2014, retrieved 2017-08-21
  2. ↑ People: Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, NCSU Dept. of Statistics, retrieved 2017-08-21
  3. ↑ Byron, Terry (29 February 2024). "Honoring Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver: A Legacy of Dedication and Service". NC State University. Retrieved 17 August 2025.
  4. 1 2 Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver Archived 2017-08-22 at the Wayback Machine , Mathematically Gifted and Black, retrieved 2017-08-21
  5. 1 2 Hughes-Oliver, Jacqueline M. (December 2016), "Mentoring to achieve diversity in graduate programs", The American Statistician, 71 (1): 55–60, doi:10.1080/00031305.2016.1255661, S2CID   126204284
  6. 1 2 3 4 Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2017-08-21
  7. ↑ Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  8. ↑ Golbeck, Amanda L.; Olkin, Ingram; Gel, Yulia R., eds. (2015), Leadership and Women in Statistics, CRC Press, pp. 361–362, ISBN   9781482236453
  9. ↑ ASA Fellows list Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine , accessed 2017-08-21
  10. ↑ Hughes-Oliver To Receive 2014 Blackwell-Tapia Prize, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, retrieved 2017-08-21
  11. ↑ "Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver". Mathematically Gifted & Black.
  12. ↑ "2022 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2023-03-15.
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