Weiwen Miao is a Chinese-American statistician, statistics educator, and scholar of legal statistics and nonparametric statistics. She is a professor of mathematics and statistics at Haverford College.
Education and career
Miao has a bachelor's degree in mathematics from Peking University. She went to Tufts University for graduate study in probability theory and statistics, earning a master's degree and a Ph.D. there. Her 1995 doctoral dissertation, Maximum Likelihood Estimation for Exponential Families, was supervised by Marjorie Hahn.
After teaching statistics at Mount Holyoke College and Colby College, and becoming an associate professor at Macalester College, she moved to Haverford College in 2007.
Recognition
Miao was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2021.
References
- "Weiwen Miao, Professor of Mathematics and Statistics", Faculty, Haverford College, retrieved 2021-07-18
- ^ Five Tenure-Track Professors New to Haverford's Faculty This Year, Haverford College, September 24, 2007, retrieved 2021-07-18
- Weiwen Miao at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
- ASA Fellows list, American Statistical Association, retrieved 2021-07-18
External links
Categories:- Living people
- American statisticians
- American women statisticians
- Chinese statisticians
- Chinese women mathematicians
- Peking University alumni
- Tufts University School of Arts and Sciences alumni
- Mount Holyoke College faculty
- Colby College faculty
- Macalester College faculty
- Haverford College faculty
- Fellows of the American Statistical Association
- 21st-century American women