Grace Yang
Grace Lo Yang (simplified Chinese: ubiquitous; traditional Chinese: ubiquitous; pinyin: Luó Zhāoróng) is a Chinese statistician whose study includes physical science stochastic processes, asymptotic theory, and survival analysis. She is Professor of Statistics at University of Maryland, College Park, Mathematics Department. She was president of the International Chinese Statistical Association during 1990–1991 and National Science Foundation Statistics Program Director from 2005 to 2008.
Education and career
Originally from China, Yang came to Taiwan in 1949. [2] After graduating from National Taiwan University, she got her PhD in 1966 from the University of California, Berkeley, under Lucien Le Cam. Her dissertation on Contagion in Stochastic Epidemic Models. [2] [3] With Le Cam, she is the author of Asymptotics in Statistics (Springer, 1990; 2nd ed., 2002)
Awards and honors
Yang is a member of the International Statistical Institute and a mathematical statistics fellow.
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