Tze Leung Lai
Tze Leung Lai | |
---|---|
Born | |
Died | May 21, 2023 | (aged 77)
Citizenship | United States |
Education | University of Hong Kong Columbia University |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | Stanford University |
Thesis | Confidence Sequences and Martingales (1971) |
Doctoral advisor | David Oliver Siegmund |
Doctoral students | Yuguo Chen Zhiliang Ying Dylan Small |
Website | statweb |
Tze Leung Lai (June 28, 1945 – May 21, 2023) was a Chinese-American statistician of Hong Kong descent. He was the Ray Lyman Wilbur Professor of Statistics, as well as a professor of Biomedical Data Science and of the Institute of Computational and Mathematical Engineering (ICME) at Stanford University.[1] He co-directed the Center for Innovative Study Design (CISD) at the Stanford University School of Medicine. He was the recipient of the COPSS Presidents' Award, one of the highest honors in statistics, in 1983.
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 supervised 79 doctoral theses and 7 postdoctoral trainees.[3]
He died on May 21, 2023.[4]
Honors and awards
He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1983. He was also awarded a Guggenheim fellowship the same year.[5]
He was a fellow of the American Statistical Association (1986),[6] the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,[7] and Academia Sinica (1994).[8]
References
- ^ "Tze Leung Lai". Stanford Statistics. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "CV" (PDF). Stanford University. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "Stanford Profiles". Stanford University. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "In Memory of Professor Tze Leung Lai". Department of Mathematics, HKU. Retrieved July 3, 2023.
- ^ "Fellows". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 22 April 2020.
- ^ "ASA Fellows". American Statistical Association. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
- ^ "Honored IMS Fellows". Retrieved September 11, 2023.
- ^ "Tze-Leung Lai". Academia Sinica. Retrieved September 11, 2023.
External links
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with hCards
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BIBSYS identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with CANTICN identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with NDL identifiers
- Articles with NKC identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with CINII identifiers
- Articles with DBLP identifiers
- Articles with MATHSN identifiers
- Articles with MGP identifiers
- Articles with ORCID identifiers
- Articles with ZBMATH identifiers
- Articles with SUDOC identifiers
- American statisticians
- Stanford University Department of Statistics faculty
- Columbia Graduate School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Alumni of the University of Hong Kong
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- Fellows of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- 1945 births
- 2023 deaths
- Members of Academia Sinica
- All stub articles
- Statistician stubs