Shili Lin
Alma materUniversity of Washington
Scientific career
InstitutionsOhio State University
ThesisMarkov Chain Monte Carlo Estimates Of Probabilities On Complex Structures (1993)
Doctoral advisorElizabeth A. Thompson

Shili Lin is a statistician who studies the applications of statistics to genomic data. She is a professor of statistics at Ohio State University,[1] and is president-elect of the Caucus for Women in Statistics.[1][2]

Lin earned her Ph.D. in 1993 from the University of Washington. Her dissertation, supervised by Elizabeth A. Thompson, was Markov Chain Monte Carlo Estimates Of Probabilities On Complex Structures.[3] After working as a Neyman Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of California, Berkeley, she joined the Ohio State faculty in 1995.[1]

She has been a fellow of the American Statistical Association since 2004, and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science since 2009.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Shili Lin, Professor of Statistics", People, Ohio State University Department of Statistics, retrieved 2017-10-23
  2. ^ Governing Council, Caucus for Women in Statistics, March 29, 2016, retrieved 2017-10-23
  3. ^ Shili Lin at the Mathematics Genealogy Project