Wei-Yin Loh

Wei-Yin Loh is a Singaporean statistician.

Loh obtained his Bachelor of Science in mathematics with first-class honours at the University of Singapore in 1974. He remained at the University of Singapore until 1977 to complete a Master of Science in the same subject, then enrolled at the University of California, Berkeley for a PhD in statistics. ^[1] Loh completed his doctoral dissertation, "Tail-orderings on Symmetric Distributions with Statistical Applications", under the supervision of Erich Leo Lehmann in 1982. ^{[2] [3]}

Loh is a professor of statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. ^[4] He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1991, ^{[1] [5]} and to an equivalent honour by the American Statistical Association in 1998. ^{[1] [6]}

Loh is the father of Po-Shen Loh, a mathematician at Carnegie Mellon University and coach of the US International Mathematical Olympiad team, Po-Ling Loh, a statistician at the University of Cambridge, and Po-Ru Loh, an associate professor of medicine at Harvard University. His brother, Wei-Liem Loh, is a statistician at the National University of Singapore. ^[7]

References

1. "Professor Wei-Yin Loh". University of Wisconsin–Madison Department of Statistics. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
2. "Wei-yin Loh Professor". University of California, Berkeley Department of Statistics. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
3. Wei-Yin Loh at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. "Wei-Yin Loh Professor, Statistics". University of Wisconsin–Madison. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
5. "Honored IMS Fellows". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
6. "ASA Fellows". American Statistical Association. Retrieved 19 September 2025.
7. Baker, Tim (10 January 2020). "BREATHE 2 Collaborator Wrote the Code that Advanced UW-CTRI Research". UW Center for Tobacco Research and Intervention. University of Wisconsin. Retrieved 2025-09-30.