Jane-Ling Wang

Jane-Ling Wang is a distinguished professor of statistics at the University of California, Davis[1] who studies dimension reduction, functional data analysis, and aging.

Education and career

Wang earned her PhD in 1982 from the University of California, Berkeley; her dissertation, supervised by Lucien Le Cam, was Asymptotically Minimax Estimators for Distributions with Increasing Failure Rate.[2][3] After starting her faculty career at the University of Iowa, she moved to Davis in 1984. She chaired the statistics department at Davis from 1999 to 2003.[2]

Awards and honors

Wang is a fellow of the American Statistical Association[4] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[2] She won the Outstanding Service Award of the International Chinese Statistical Association in 2010.[2] She is the 2016 winner of the Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Award of the American Statistical Association.[1]

gollark: Narrow AIish things can beat humans on narrow tasks like "playing go" already.
gollark: Or at least better-in-most-ways.
gollark: People haven't managed anything better yet, yes.
gollark: Humans are kind of awful.
gollark: Do we REALLY want our AIs to try and be as accurate as possible to *humans*?

References
  1. Jane-Ling Wang wins 2016 Noether Senior Scholar Award, University of California, Davis Department of Statistics, January 11, 2016, retrieved 2017-10-17
  2. Outstanding Service Award 2010, International Chinese Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-10-17
  3. Jane-Ling Wang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Rockwell, Susan (March 26, 1999), "Jane-Ling Wang", News, University of California, Davis, retrieved 2017-10-17
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