Lynn Kuo

Lynn Kuo (born 1949)[1] is a professor of statistics at the University of Connecticut[2] known for her work on Bayesian inference in phylogeny. With Ming-Hui Chen and Paul O. Lewis, she is the author of Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms, and Applications (CRC Press, 2014).[3][4]

Education and career

Kuo did both her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles,[5] completing her PhD in 1980. Her dissertation, supervised by Thomas S. Ferguson, was Computations and Applications of Mixtures of Dirichlet Processes.[6] She has worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute before joining the Connecticut faculty.[5]

She is the treasurer of the New England Statistical Society,[5] and has also worked as treasurer for the International Chinese Statistical Association.[7]

Awards and honors

Kuo is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.[5] In 2013, she won the Outstanding Service Award of the International Chinese Statistical Association.[7]

References
  1. Birthdate from Worldcat
  2. Lynn Kuo, University of Connecticut Department of Statistics, 2014-11-12, retrieved 2017-10-19
  3. Larget, Bret (April 2015), "Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms and Applications", International Statistical Review, 83 (1): 160–161, doi:10.1111/insr.12095_1
  4. Oaks, Jamie R. (August 2015), "Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms, and Applications", Systematic Biology, 64 (6): 1122–1125, doi:10.1093/sysbio/syv063
  5. Lynn Kuo, New England Statistical Society, retrieved 2017-10-19
  6. Lynn Kuo at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  7. Outstanding Service Award 2013, International Chinese Statistical Association, retrieved 2017-10-19
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