Chinese biostatistician
Tianxi Cai (Chinese : 蔡天西 ) is a Chinese biostatistician . She is the John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health .[ 1] Topics in her research include biomarkers , personalized medicine , survival analysis , and health informatics .[ 1]
Education and career
Cai graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She earned her doctorate (Sc.D.) in biostatistics at Harvard University in 1999.[ 2] Her dissertation, Correlated Survival , was supervised by Lee-Jen Wei .[ 3]
She worked as an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington from 2000 to 2002, before returning to Harvard as a faculty member.[citation needed ]
Recognition
Cai was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2011.[ 4]
Personal
Cai is the daughter of Xiaowan Cai [zh ] and sister of T. Tony Cai , also a statistician.[ 2]
References
^ a b "Tianxi Cai" , Faculty and Researcher Directory , Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , retrieved 2018-10-28
^ a b Biosketch , Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health , archived from the original on 2018-10-29, retrieved 2018-10-28
^ Tianxi Cai at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
^ "ASA Founders Award and Fellows; JSM Plenary Session webcasts" , Members' News, IMS Bulletin , Institute of Mathematical Statistics , October–November 2011
External links
International National Academics People