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Shingchang "Samuel" Kou (; born in 1974) is a Chinese American
statistician A statistician is a person who works with Theory, theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private sector, private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, a ...
and Professor of Statistics at
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.


Biography

He earned a bachelor's degree in computational mathematics at
Peking University Peking University (PKU) is a Public university, public Types of universities and colleges in China#By designated academic emphasis, university in Haidian, Beijing, China. It is affiliated with and funded by the Ministry of Education of the Peop ...
. He graduated in 1997 and then moved to the United States to study statistics at
Stanford University Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University, is a Private university, private research university in Stanford, California, United States. It was founded in 1885 by railroad magnate Leland Stanford (the eighth ...
under
Bradley Efron Bradley Efron (; born May 24, 1938) is an American statistician. Efron has been president of the American Statistical Association (2004) and of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (1987–1988).Cochran, J. (1 September 2015), "ASA Lea ...
. He earned his Ph.D. in 2001 and subsequently joined the statistics faculty at Harvard University. In 2008, he became a full professor of statistics at Harvard.


Honors and awards

In 2007, he was elected a fellow of the
American Statistical Association The American Statistical Association (ASA) is the main professional organization for statisticians and related professionals in the United States. It was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, on November 27, 1839, and is the second-oldest continuous ...
. In 2013, he was awarded a
Guggenheim fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are Grant (money), grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, endowed by the late Simon Guggenheim, Simon and Olga Hirsh Guggenheim. These awards are bestowed upon indiv ...
. He received the
COPSS Presidents' Award The COPSS Presidents' Award is given annually by the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies to a young statistician in recognition of outstanding contributions to the profession of statistics Statistics (from German language, Ger ...
in 2012. The reason for receiving the award was described as follows:


Selected publications

* S. C. Kou, Qing Zhou, and Wing Hung Wong.
Equi-energy sampler with applications in statistical inference and statistical mechanics
. ''
Annals of Statistics The ''Annals of Statistics'' is a peer-reviewed statistics journal published by the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. It was started in 1973 as a continuation in part of the '' Annals of Mathematical Statistics (1930)'', which was split into ...
'', 34(4), 1581–1619, 2006.


References


External links


Faculty website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kou, Samuel 1974 births Living people American statisticians Harvard University faculty Peking University alumni Stanford University alumni Fellows of the American Statistical Association People from Lanzhou