Weiwen Miao
Weiwen Miao is a Chinese-American statistician, statistics educator, and scholar of legal statistics and nonparametric statistics. She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at Haverford College.[1]
Education and career
[edit]Miao has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Peking University. She went to Tufts University for graduate study in probability theory and statistics, earning a master's degree and a Ph.D. there.[2] Her 1995 doctoral dissertation, Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Exponential Families, was supervised by Marjorie Hahn.[3]
After teaching statistics at Mount Holyoke College and Colby College, and becoming an associate professor at Macalester College, she moved to Haverford College in 2007.[2]
Recognition
[edit]Miao was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021.[4]
References
[edit]- ^ "Weiwen Miao, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics", Faculty, Haverford College, retrieved 2021-07-18
- ^ a b Five Tenure-Track Professors New to Haverford's Faculty This Year, Haverford College, September 24, 2007, retrieved 2021-07-18
- ^ Weiwen Miao at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-07-18
External links
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- Living people
- American statisticians
- American women statisticians
- Chinese statisticians
- Chinese women mathematicians
- Peking University alumni
- Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Mount Holyoke College faculty
- Colby College faculty
- Macalester College faculty
- Haverford College faculty
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- 21st-century American women