Samuel Kou

Shingchang "Samuel" Kou (Chinese: 寇星昌; born in 1974) is a Chinese American statistician and Professor of Statistics at Harvard University.

Samuel Kou
Born1974
Other namesS.C. Kou
Alma materPeking University
Stanford University
Home townLanzhou, China[1]
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsHarvard University
ThesisExtended Exponential Criterion: A New Selection Procedure for Scatterplot Smoothers (2001)
Doctoral advisorBradley Efron
Websitewww.people.fas.harvard.edu/~skou/

Biography

He earned a bachelor's degree in computational mathematics at Peking University. He graduated in 1997 and then moved to the United States to study statistics at Stanford University under Bradley Efron. He earned his Ph.D. in 2001 and subsequently joined the statistics faculty at Harvard University.

In 2008, he became a full professor of statistics at Harvard. Since 2018, he is the chair of the statistics department.[2]

Honors and awards

In 2007, he was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2] In 2013, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.[1]

He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2012. The reason for receiving the award was described as follows:[3]

For groundbreaking contributions to stochastic modeling and statistical inference in single molecule biophysics; for pioneering the equi-energy sampler; for fundamental contributions to Bayesian, empirical Bayes and nonparametric methods; and for outstanding service to the statistical profession and contribution to statistical education.

Selected publications

References
  1. "Samuel Kou". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  2. "Resume". Samuel Kou Personal Website. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
  3. "Presidents' Award". Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies. Retrieved 30 April 2020.
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