Jie Chen is a statistician who works as a professor of biostatistics and epidemiology at the Medical College of Georgia. As well as biostatistics, her research interests include change detection.
Chen earned a bachelor's degree in statistics from Chongqing University in China in 1985, and became a lecturer at Southwestern University of Finance and Economics from 1985 to 1988. She returned to graduate school for a master's degree from the University of Akron in 1990, and a Ph.D. from Bowling Green State University in 1995, [1] under the supervision of Arjun Kumar Gupta. [2] She joined the Department of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of Missouri–Kansas City in 1995, and was department chair from 2008 until 2014, when she moved to Georgia. [1]
In 2014 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association "for significant contributions to change point problems and their applications to genomics data; for high-impact collaborative research in biological research; for excellence in teaching and mentoring students; and for dedicated service to the profession." [3]
References
- ^ a b Curriculum vitae (April 2015), retrieved 2016-07-11.
- ^ Jie Chen at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ ASA Honors 63 New Fellows (PDF), American Statistical Association, June 11, 2014, archived from the original (PDF) on March 4, 2016, retrieved 2016-07-11.
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- Chinese statisticians
- American women statisticians
- Chongqing University alumni
- University of Akron alumni
- Bowling Green State University alumni
- University of Missouri–Kansas City faculty
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
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