Regina Liu

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Regina Liu
AwardsElizabeth L. Scott award (2024)

Regina Y. Liu is an American statistician. She is a distinguished professor of statistics and chair of the Department of Statistics and Biostatistics at Rutgers University. [1] Her research concerns robust statistics and nonparametric statistics, including the first formulation of simplicial depth. [PNAS] [AS90]

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Liu earned her Ph.D. in statistics from Columbia University in 1983, under the supervision of John Raphael Van Ryzin, [2] and joined the Rutgers faculty at that time. She became a distinguished professor at Rutgers in 2001, [3] and department chair in 2005. [4]

Liu became a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2005. [5] She is also a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. [3]

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References

  1. Faculty and staff, Rutgers Department of Statistics and Biostatistics, retrieved 2017-08-01.
  2. Regina Liu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. 1 2 Curriculum Vitae, May 2015, retrieved 2017-08-01.
  4. Naus, Joseph (2012), "Rutgers University Department of Statistics and Biostatistics", in Agresti, Alan; Meng, Xiao-Li (eds.), Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S., Springer, pp. 243–256, doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2_18, ISBN   9781461436492 . See in particular p. 252.
  5. View/Search Fellows of the ASA, accessed 2017-08-01.