Tianxi Cai
Tianxi Cai | |
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| 蔡天西 | |
| Education | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biostatistics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Correlated Survival (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lee-Jen Wei |
| Doctoral students | Layla Parast |
| Website | https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/tianxi-cai/ |
Tianxi Cai (Chinese: 蔡天西) is a Chinese biostatistician. She is the John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.[1] Topics in her research include biomarkers, personalized medicine, survival analysis, and health informatics.[1]
Education and career
[edit]Cai graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She earned her doctorate (Sc.D.) in biostatistics at Harvard University in 1999.[2] Her dissertation, Correlated Survival, was supervised by Lee-Jen Wei.[3]
She worked as an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington from 2000 to 2002, before returning to Harvard as a faculty member.[citation needed]
Recognition
[edit]Cai was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2011.[4]
Personal
[edit]Cai is the daughter of Xiaowan Cai and sister of T. Tony Cai, also a statistician.[2]
References
[edit]- ^ a b "Tianxi Cai", Faculty and Researcher Directory, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, retrieved 2018-10-28
- ^ a b Biosketch, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, archived from the original on 2018-10-29, retrieved 2018-10-28
- ^ Tianxi Cai at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ^ "ASA Founders Award and Fellows; JSM Plenary Session webcasts", Members' News, IMS Bulletin, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, October–November 2011
External links
[edit]| International | |
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| National | |
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| People | |
- 1977 births
- Living people
- American women statisticians
- Chinese statisticians
- University of Science and Technology of China alumni
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health alumni
- University of Washington faculty
- Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health faculty
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- Chinese women mathematicians
- Scientists from Wenzhou
- Mathematicians from Zhejiang
- Educators from Wenzhou
- American women mathematicians
- 21st-century American women