Wing Hung Wong () 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 ...

computational biologist Computational biology refers to the use of techniques in computer science, data analysis, mathematical modeling and computational simulations to understand biological systems and relationships. An intersection of computer science, biology, and d ...

, and

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 ...

professor.

Biography

Wong graduated from the

University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley (UC Berkeley, Berkeley, Cal, or California), is a Public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Berkeley, California, United States. Founded in 1868 and named after t ...

in 1976 with a bachelor's degree. At the

University of Wisconsin–Madison The University of Wisconsin–Madison (University of Wisconsin, Wisconsin, UW, UW–Madison, or simply Madison) is a public land-grant research university in Madison, Wisconsin, United States. It was founded in 1848 when Wisconsin achieved st ...

, he studied under renowned statistician

Grace Wahba Grace Goldsmith Wahba (born August 3, 1934) is an American statistician and retired I. J. Schoenberg-Hilldale Professor of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. She is a pioneer in methods for smoothing noisy data. Best known for t ...

, and was awarded a PhD in Statistics in 1980. After graduation, he taught at the

University of Chicago The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, or UChi) is a Private university, private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its main campus is in the Hyde Park, Chicago, Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, Chic ...

, served as an assistant professor, associate professor, and professor. In 1994 he joined the

Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public university, public research university in Sha Tin, New Territories, Hong Kong. Established in 1963 as a federation of three university college, collegesChung Chi College, New Asia Coll ...

Department of Statistics. Since 1997, he taught and led his lab at the

University of California, Los Angeles The University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in Los Angeles, California, United States. Its academic roots were established in 1881 as a normal school the ...

and

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. In 2004, he was appointed Professor at Stanford University, and served as Head of the Department of Statistics at Stanford University in 2009. As of 2020, he is Professor of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford. His students include George Tseng at University of Pittsburgh, Rick Chappell at

, and Jun S. Liu at

Honors and awards

Wong is a fellow of

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in the United States and

Academia Sinica Academia Sinica (AS, ; zh, t=中央研究院) is the national academy of the Taiwan, Republic of China. It is headquartered in Nangang District, Taipei, Nangang, Taipei. Founded in Nanjing, the academy supports research activities in mathemat ...

(2010). He won the highest award in the field of Statistics

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 1993. In 2021 he was awarded the

COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship The COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship (formerly known as R. A. Fisher Award and Lectureship) is a very high recognition of achievement and scholarship in statistical science that recognizes the highly significant impact of stati ...

Selected publications

*
The Calculation of Posterior Distributions by Data Augmentation
. ''Journal of the American Statistical Association''. 82(398): 528-540. 1987. *
Evolutionary Monte Carlo: Applications to C_p Model Sampling and Change Point Problem
. ''Statistica Sinica''. 10: 317-342. 2000.

External links

Stanford faculty page

Wong Lab page

Mathematics Genealogy Project – Wing-Hung Wong
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wong, Wing Hung Living people American statisticians Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Bayesian statisticians University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Fellows of the American Statistical Association Members of Academia Sinica American people of Chinese descent University of Chicago faculty Academic staff of the Chinese University of Hong Kong University of California, Los Angeles faculty Harvard University faculty Stanford University faculty Chinese statisticians Year of birth missing (living people)