On May 27th，2024，Prof. Danyu Lin from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill visited our center and gave an invited talk，the title was Evaluating the Effectiveness of COVID-19 Vaccines。
The Center for Statistical Science of Tsinghua University (TCSS) has opening at Lecturer position and seeks applicants specialized in the major of Statistics. Applicants should have obtained a Ph.D. degree in statistics or closely related fields by the time of appointment.
Job description
- 1.Teaching undergraduate program, a minimum of 256 credit hours each year, maintaining a high standard of teaching effectiveness;
- 2.Participating in the research program of teaching innovation and reform；
- 3.Engaging in public service and teaching related work of TCSS.
Qualification
- 1.Applicants should hold a Ph.D. degree in statistics.
- 2.Proficiency in reading English publication and oral academic communication in English.
- 3.Be passionate about teaching, diligent, hardworking and responsible, actively participate in curriculum and textbook development, and possess excellent communication skills.
- 4.Applicants should have a good spirit of teamwork and open communication.
Application Materials Required:
- 1.Curriculum Vitae
- 2.Teaching and public service statement
- 3.The most representative achievements 3-5 items
- 4.Three reference letters
- Please submit the above items to stat_recruit@tsinghua.edu.cn with email subject
- “Name- Lecturer Application”.
On December 4，2023， Prof. Daisuke Kurisu from the University of Tokyo communicated with the professors of our center and gave a talk, the title was Deep learning for non-stationary and nonlineartime series models.
Feb 13, 2023, Pro.f Harrison Zhou from Yale University visited our center and gave a talk, the title was Leave-one-out Singular Subspace Perturbation Analysis for Spectral Clustering。
On October 24, 2022, Prof. Denis Belomestny from the Duisburg-Essen Communicated with the Professors of Our Center and Gave a talk. The title was Exploration in Reinforcement Learning via Randomisation。
On May 16， 2022，Dr. Zhiyong Lu from the National Institutes of Health of the US communicated with the professors of our center and gave a talk. The title was PubMed & Beyond: Biomedical Text Mining for Knowledge Discovery.
Dr. Xihong Lin
Professor of Biostatistics and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Professor of Statistics at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University, will be the recipient of the 2022 Marvin Zelen Leadership Award in Statistical Science and will deliver a virtual lecture in May 2022.
Described by colleagues as “a force of nature”, “a major star”, and “one of the most influential statistical scientists of our time”, Dr. Lin has distinguished herself as a world leader in statistical methods and applications who has dedicated her career to advancing biostatistics, medicine, and public health.
After earning her PhD at the University of Washington and spending almost 10 years at the University of Michigan, Dr. Lin joined the faculty at Harvard in 2005. Her research has evolved over the years, motivated by the pressing analytical needs in health research. Early in her career, she focused on statistical method development and applications for analysis of longitudinal data and complex observational studies. She became a leader in mixed models, nonparametric and semiparametric regression, missing data, and measurement error for analysis of longitudinal data, and causal inference for complex clinical trials. Later in her career her research shifted to statistical genetics and genomics, with her work becoming a hallmark in statistical methods for analysis of rare variants (RVs) in whole genome sequencing studies. She founded and has been the Coordinating Director of Harvard’s Program in Quantitative of Genomics (PQG) since 2008. Most recently, Dr. Lin has been on the forefront of COVID-19 research, becoming part of a team analyzing the first data out of Wuhan, China and the effectiveness of control measures. In addition to several other efforts, she is the PI of the HowWeFeel project that launched an app in spring 2020 to collect COVID-19 health and exposure data in US and other countries.
Dr. Lin has given back to the statistical and biostatistical community in immeasurable ways through her extraordinary service and leadership. She chaired the Harvard Biostatistics department from 2015-2018, helping to launch an MS program in Health Data Science, one of the first in the nation. As coordinating director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics (PQG), she will help organize its 16th conference, “Emerging Challenges and Opportunities in Gene Editing” later this year. She is the former Chair of the COPSS, and a former member of the Committee of Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS) of the National Academy of Science. She is the former Coordinating Editor of Biometrics, the founding co-editor of Statistics in Biosciences, and a former Associate Editor of the Journal of the American Statistical Association and American Journal of Human Genetics.
- Mortimer Spiegelman Award, APHA
- Presidents’ Award, COPSS
- Janet L. Norwood Award for Outstanding Woman Statistician, University of Alabama at Birmingham
- FN David Award, COPSS
- Mosteller Statistician of the Year, ASA Boston Chapter
- Adrienne Cupples Award, Boston University
- Greenberg Distinguished Lectureship Award, UNC Chapel Hill
- Distinguished Alumni Award, University of Washington
- Outstanding Service Award, International Chinese Statistical Association
- Myrto Lefkopoulou Award, Harvard University
- Medallion Lecture Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Coordinating Director, Program in Quantitative Genomics (PQG)
- Elected Fellow of the American Statistical Association
- Elected Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Elected to the National Academy of Medicine
- Named one of 50 Changemakers in Public Health by Washington University
- Published over 330 papers, with over 43300 citations
- Principal Investigator or Multiple Principal Investigator on six NIH and NSF grants
- Received the NCI MERIT Award (R37) and the NCI Outstanding Investigator Award
- Chair of the COPSS
- Former member of the Committee of Applied and Theoretical Statistics (CATS) of the National Academy of Science
- Founder, North America Department of Biostatistics Chair Group
- Co-founder, ENAR Young Researcher Workshop
- Co-founder, co-founded the ASA Statistical Genetics and Genomics Section
- Served on the State of Massachusetts COVID-19 Task Force
- Editor, Computational Biology Series
- Founding Co-Editor, Statistics in Biosciences
- Coordinating Editor, Biometrics
- Associate Editor: JASA, AJHG, Statistica, Biometrics, Biometrika, Biostatistics
- Books: Past, Present and Future of Statistical Science and New Developments in Biostatistics and Bioinformatics (Frontiers of Statistics)
On Dec 20， 2021，Prof. Martin Wainwright from the University of California, Berkely communicated with the professors of our center and gave a talk. The title was Beyond Worst-case: Instance-dependent Optimality in Reinforcement Learning。
On Dec 14， 2021，Prof. Dongming Huang from National University of Singapore communicated with the professors of our center and gave a talk. The title was Controlled Variable Selection with More Flexibility.
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On Dec 13， 2021，Prof. Chuan Hong from Duke University communicated with the professors of our center and gave a talk. The title was Realizing the Potential of EHR Data for Clinical Research: Overcoming Noisiness, Privacy Constraints and Heterogeneity。
