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Xinyi Xu

Xinyi Xu

Chinese-American statistician

This article is about the statistician. For the kunqu and opera performer, see Xu Xiaoxiang.

Xinyi Xu is a Chinese-American statistician and a professor of statistics at Ohio State University. Her research includes work on high-dimensional Bayesian hierarchical modeling, model selection, and density estimation.[1]

Education and career

Xu has a 2001 bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China. She went to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate study in statistics, earning a master's degree in 2003 and completing her Ph.D. in 2005.[2] Her dissertation, Estimation of High Dimensional Predictive Densities, was supervised by Edward I. George.[3][4]

She took her present position at Ohio State University in 2005,[1] and earned tenure there in 2012.[5]

Recognition

Xu received the 2005 Savage Award of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, for one of two best dissertations that year.[4]

She was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2022, "for her fundamental contributions to predictive estimation and decision theory, Bayesian nonparametric methods, and model choice; for her service to the statistics profession; and for her advancement of Bayesian methods throughout the world".[6]

References

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    "Xinyi Xu", People, The Ohio State University Department of Statistics, retrieved 2024-04-05
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    Xinyi Xu, The Ohio State University College of Arts and Sciences, retrieved 2024-04-05
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    Xinyi Xu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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    Savage Award, International Society for Bayesian Analysis, retrieved 2024-04-05
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    Congratulations to Newly Promoted and Tenured Associate Professors Elly Kaizer, Xinyi Xu and Desheng Liu, The Ohio State University Department of Statistics, September 10, 2012, retrieved 2024-04-05
  6. [6]
    "American Statistical Association Fellows: Xinyi Xu", JSM 2022 Awards Book (PDF), American Statistical Association, p. 11, retrieved 2024-04-05
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