Annie Qu

Annie Qu
瞿培勇
Alma mater	Fudan University University of Montana Pennsylvania State University
Scientific career
Fields	Statistics
Institutions	University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign
Thesis	Adaptive Generalized Estimating Equations  (1998)
Doctoral advisor	Bruce G. Lindsay
Website	https://publish.illinois.edu/anniequ/

Peiyong "Annie" Qu (Chinese: 瞿培勇; pinyin: Qú Péiyǒng) is a Chinese-American statistician known for her work on estimating equations and semiparametric models.^[1] Her research interests also include longitudinal analysis, nonparametric statistics and robust statistics, missing data, and biostatistics.^[2]

Biography

Qu earned a bachelor's degree in computational mathematics from Fudan University in 1990. She came to the U.S. for graduate study, earned a master's degree in operations research at the University of Montana in 1992, and completed her Ph.D. in statistics at Pennsylvania State University in 1998.^[2] Her dissertation, jointly supervised by Bruce G. Lindsay and Bing Li, was Adaptive Generalized Estimating Equations.^[3]

She joined the Oregon State University faculty in 1999, and moved to the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 2008. In 2015 she added another affiliation with the Institute for Genomic Biology at Illinois. At Illinois she became Data Science Founder Professor, Brad and Karen Smith Professorial Scholar, professor of statistics, and director of the Illinois Statistics Office.^[2][2]

Starting July 2020, she moved to the University of California, Irvine, as a Chancellor's Professor.^[4]

Recognition

In 2010, Qu was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association;^[2][5] she became a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2016.^[1][6] She was the chair of the Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science of the American Statistical Association^[2][7] and of the Biometrics Section of the International Chinese Statistical Association for 2017.^[2][8] She was named to the 2021 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.^[9]

References

1. Annie Qu Named IMS Fellow, Illinois Department of Statistics, August 17, 2016, retrieved 2017-11-24
2. Annie (Peiyong) Qu, Director of Consulting, Professor, Illinois Department of Statistics, retrieved 2017-11-24
3. Annie Qu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
4. ICS Welcomes 8 New Faculty for 2019, Donald Bren School of Information and Computer Sciences, UC Irvine, October 14, 2019, retrieved 2019-10-28
5. ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, archived from the original on 2017-12-01, retrieved 2017-11-11
6. Honored Fellows, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, archived from the original on 2014-03-02, retrieved 2017-11-24
7. Statistical Learning and Data Science Section Officers, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-11-24
8. 2017 ICSA election results, International Chinese Statistical Association, August 11, 2016, archived from the original on December 1, 2017, retrieved 2017-11-24
9. 2021 Fellows, American Association for the Advancement of Science, retrieved 2022-02-01

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