Shili Lin

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Shili Lin
Alma mater University of Washington
Scientific career
Institutions Ohio State University
Thesis Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimates Of Probabilities On Complex Structures (1993)
Doctoral advisor Elizabeth A. Thompson

Shili Lin is a statistician who studies the applications of statistics to genomic data. She is a professor of statistics at Ohio State University, [1] and is president-elect of the Caucus for Women in Statistics. [1] [2]

Lin earned her Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Washington. Her dissertation, supervised by Elizabeth A. Thompson, was Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimates Of Probabilities On Complex Structures. [3] After working as a Neyman Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, she joined the Ohio State faculty in 1995. [1]

She has been a fellow of the American Statistical Association since 2004, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2009. [1]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Shili Lin, Professor of Statistics", People, Ohio State University Department of Statistics, retrieved 2017-10-23
  2. Governing Council, Caucus for Women in Statistics, March 29, 2016, retrieved 2017-10-23
  3. Shili Lin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project