Xiao-Li Meng

Xiao-Li Meng (Chinese: 孟晓犁; born 1963) is a Chinese American statistician and the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2001.[2] He has written numerous research papers about Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and other statistical methodology.

Xiao-Li Meng
孟晓犁
Born1963 (age 5960)
NationalityChinese American
Occupations
  • Statistician
  • professor
TitleWhipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics
AwardsCOPSS Presidents' Award (2001)
Academic background
Education
ThesisTowards Complete Results for Some Incomplete-Data Problems (1990)
Doctoral advisorDonald Rubin[1]
Academic work
InstitutionsHarvard University
Websitehttps://statistics.fas.harvard.edu/people/xiao-li-meng

From 2004 to 2012, Meng was the Chair of Harvard's Department of Statistics, where he helped create innovative new statistics courses designed to give students a more positive impression of the subject.[3] He edited the journals Bayesian Analysis from 2003 to 2005 and Statistica Sinica from 2005 to 2008.[4] On August 14, 2012, Xiao-Li Meng was appointed dean of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences (GSAS).[5]

Meng received his B.Sc. from Fudan University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University in 1990. He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1997[6] and of the American Statistical Association in 2004.[7] He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020.[8]

References

  1. "Xiao-Li Meng". The Mathematics Genealogy Project. Retrieved 17 August 2022.
  2. "Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies: Presidents' Award: Past Award Recipients," National Institute of Statistical Sciences, accessed June 5, 2011, http://nisla05.niss.org/copss/PastAwardsPresidents.pdf Archived May 2, 2014, at the Wayback Machine.
  3. Lock, Kari and Xiao-Li Meng. "Real-Life Module Statistics: A Happy Harvard Experiment." International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 11–16, 2010, .
  4. "Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae of Xiao-Li Meng," Department of Statistics, Harvard University, accessed June 5, 2011, http://www.stat.harvard.edu/Faculty_Content/Meng-cv.pdf.
  5. "Xiao-Li Meng Appointed Dean of Harvard's Graduate School". Harvard Magazine. Retrieved 17 January 2013.
  6. "IMS Fellows," Institute of Mathematical Statistics, accessed June 5, 2011, http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm.
  7. "ASA Fellows," American Statistical Association, accessed June 5, 2011, http://www.amstat.org/careers/fellowslist.cfm.
  8. "AAAS Fellows Elected" (PDF). Notices of the American Mathematical Society.
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