Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver

Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver
Born	Jamaica
Education	University of Cincinnati North Carolina State University
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	North Carolina State University

Jacqueline Mindy-Mae Hughes-Oliver is a Jamaican-born American statistician, whose research interests include drug discovery and chemometrics.^[1] She is a professor in the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University (NCSU).^[2]

Education and career

Hughes-Oliver was born in Jamaica, where she grew up and went to school, living with her grandmother there while her mother worked in the US, in Cincinnati.^[3] She became a US citizen at age 12, and moved to the US at age 15.^[4] She graduated magna cum laude in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1986,^[5] and earned her PhD in statistics at NCSU in 1991,^[5] becoming possibly the first African-American doctorate from her department.^[4] Her dissertation, entitled "Estimation using group-testing procedures: adaptive iteration", supervised by William H. Swallow, concerned adaptive group testing.^[6]

After taking a temporary position at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Hughes-Oliver returned to NCSU as a faculty member in 1992.^[5] At NCSU, she directed the Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research, a large research group that she founded in 2005 with a large grant from the National Institutes of Health, and directed the graduate program in statistics beginning in 2007.^[3][7] She has also worked as a professor of statistics at George Mason University from 2011 to 2014, but kept her position at NCSU and returned to it.^[5]

Awards and honors

In 2007 Hughes-Oliver was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.^[8] She is the 2014 winner of the Blackwell-Tapia prize, awarded both for her contributions to the methodology and applications of statistics and also for her efforts to increase the diversity of the mathematical sciences.^[9] Her work also earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree.^[10] She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).^[11]

References

1. Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver: contributions to drug discovery, Stanley Young, Blackwell-Tapia Conference, 2014, retrieved 2017-08-21
2. People: Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, NCSU Dept. of Statistics, retrieved 2017-08-21
3. Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver Archived 2017-08-22 at the Wayback Machine, Mathematically Gifted and Black, retrieved 2017-08-21
4. Hughes-Oliver, Jacqueline M. (December 2016), "Mentoring to achieve diversity in graduate programs", The American Statistician, 71 (1): 55–60, doi:10.1080/00031305.2016.1255661, S2CID 126204284
5. Curriculum vitae, retrieved 2017-08-21
6. Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
7. Golbeck, Amanda L.; Olkin, Ingram; Gel, Yulia R., eds. (2015), Leadership and Women in Statistics, CRC Press, pp. 361–362, ISBN 9781482236453
8. ASA Fellows list Archived 2017-12-01 at the Wayback Machine, accessed 2017-08-21
9. Hughes-Oliver To Receive 2014 Blackwell-Tapia Prize, Institute for Pure and Applied Mathematics, University of California, Los Angeles, retrieved 2017-08-21
10. "Jacqueline M. Hughes-Oliver". Mathematically Gifted & Black.
11. "2022 AAAS Fellows | American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)". www.aaas.org. Retrieved 2023-03-15.

External links

• Home page
• Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver, Mathematicians of the African Diaspora, Scott W. Williams, SUNY Buffalo