Tze Leung Lai

Tze Leung Lai (born June 28, 1945 in Hong Kong) is an American statistician. As of 2020, he is the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Statistics at Stanford University.[1]

Tze Leung Lai
Born(1945-06-28)June 28, 1945
Hong Kong
CitizenshipUnited States
EducationUniversity of Hong Kong
Columbia University
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsStanford University
ThesisConfidence Sequences and Martingales (1971)
Doctoral advisorDavid Oliver Siegmund
Doctoral studentsYuguo Chen
Zhiliang Ying
Websitestatweb.stanford.edu/~ckirby/lai/

He received his bachelor's degree from the University of Hong Kong in 1967. He received an M.A. in 1970 and a Ph.D. in 1971 in Mathematical Statistics from Columbia University.[2]

He has supervised over 70 doctoral theses.[3]

Honors and awards

He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1983. He was also awarded a Guggenheim fellowship the same year.[4]

He is a fellow of the American Statistical Association and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

References
  1. "Tze Leung Lai". Stanford Statistics. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  2. "CV" (PDF). Stanford University. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  3. "Stanford Profiles". Stanford University. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
  4. "Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
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