Jiayang Sun

Jiayang Sun is an American statistician whose research has included work on simultaneous confidence bands for multiple comparisons, selection bias, mixture models, Gaussian random fields, machine learning, big data, statistical computing, graphics, and applications in biostatistics, biomedical research, software bug tracking, astronomy, and intellectual property law. She is a statistics professor, Bernard J. Dunn Eminent Scholar, and chair of the statistics department at George Mason University,[1] and a former president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.[2]

Education and career

Sun earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Anhui University and a master's degree from Peking University.[3] She completed her Ph.D. at Stanford University in 1989. Her dissertation, -Values in Projection Pursuit, was supervised by David Siegmund.[4]

After she completed her doctorate, she became a faculty member at the University of Michigan and later at Case Western Reserve University,[3] where she became an associate and full professor in statistics, and then a professor of biostatistics and director of Case's Center for Statistical Research, Computing and Collaboration.[2] In 2019 she moved to the department of statistics at George Mason University as professor, Bernard J. Dunn Eminent Scholar, and department chair.[1] She also became an ASA/ACM/AMS/IMS/MAA/SIAM Science and Technology Policy Fellow for 2019–2020, working with the United States Department of Agriculture in Washington, DC.[5]

Recognition

Sun is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association[2][6] and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,[2][7] and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute.[2][8] She served as president of the Caucus for Women in Statistics for the 2016 term.[2]

References

  1. ^ a b Hellmich, Nanci (August 26, 2019), New statistics chair wants department to be a national leader, George Mason University, retrieved 2020-01-20
  2. ^ a b c d e f Past President Profiles, Caucus for Women in Statistics, March 31, 2016, retrieved 2020-01-20
  3. ^ a b "Sun, Jiayang" (PDF), Candidates for Board of Directors – 2005 to 2007, Bulletin of the International Chinese Statistical Association: 28, July 2004
  4. ^ Jiayang Sun at the Mathematics Genealogy Project Edit this at Wikidata
  5. ^ "Science and Technology Policy Fellows Ready to Effect Change", AMStat News, American Statistical Association, September 1, 2019
  6. ^ ASA Fellows, Caucus for Women in Statistics, March 29, 2016, retrieved 2020-01-20
  7. ^ IMS Fellows, Caucus for Women in Statistics, March 29, 2016, retrieved 2020-01-20
  8. ^ Individual members, International Statistical Institute, archived from the original on 2017-07-29, retrieved 2020-01-20

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