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Amy Ong Tsui (born 1949) is an American demographer. Due to the Chinese Civil War, Tsui's father emigrated to the United States to pursue doctoral studies in agricultural economics. Tsui was born in
Pullman, Washington Pullman () is the largest city in Whitman County, located in southeastern Washington within the Palouse region of the Pacific Northwest. The population was 29,799 at the 2010 census, and estimated to be 34,506 in 2019. Originally founded as Thr ...
in 1949. The elder Tsui worked for the Food and Agriculture Organization, and moved his family to Bangladesh and Thailand. The Tsui family later returned to the United States, where Amy graduated from high school, and enrolled at
Carlton College Carleton College ( ) is a private liberal arts college in Northfield, Minnesota. Founded in 1866, it had 2,105 undergraduate students and 269 faculty members in fall 2016. The 200-acre main campus is between Northfield and the 800-acre Cowling ...
in Minnesota, before transferring to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa, where she completed her bachelor's and master's degrees in 1970 and 1972, respectively. Five years later, Tsui obtained a doctorate from the University of Chicago, where she was advised by
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. Tsui remained on the University of Chicago faculty until 1982, when she moved to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. In 2002, she joined the Johns Hopkins University faculty. While affiliated with Johns Hopkins, Tsui was elected a fellow of the
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in 2004, and served as president of the Population Association of America in 2017.


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1949 births Living people 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians American demographers People from Pullman, Washington American expatriates in Thailand University of Chicago alumni University of Chicago faculty University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill faculty Johns Hopkins University faculty American expatriates in Bangladesh American women statisticians Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa alumni American academics of Chinese descent {{US-statistician-stub