Jun Zhu is a

statistician A statistician is a person who works with theoretical or applied statistics. The profession exists in both the private and public sectors. It is common to combine statistical knowledge with expertise in other subjects, and statisticians may wor ...

and

entomologist Entomology () is the scientific study of insects, a branch of zoology. In the past the term "insect" was less specific, and historically the definition of entomology would also include the study of animals in other arthropod groups, such as arach ...

who works as a professor in the Departments of Statistics and Entomology at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Her research interests involve the analysis of

spatial data Geographic data and information is defined in the ISO/TC 211 series of standards as data and information having an implicit or explicit association with a location relative to Earth (a geographic location or geographic position). It is also call ...

and spatio-temporal data, and the applications of this analysis in environmental statistics. After earning a bachelor's degree from Knox College (Illinois) in

mathematics Mathematics is an area of knowledge that includes the topics of numbers, formulas and related structures, shapes and the spaces in which they are contained, and quantities and their changes. These topics are represented in modern mathematics ...

and computer science in 1994, Zhu moved to Johns Hopkins University, where she earned a master's degree in mathematical sciences in 1995. She completed her Ph.D. in

statistics Statistics (from German language, German: ''wikt:Statistik#German, Statistik'', "description of a State (polity), state, a country") is the discipline that concerns the collection, organization, analysis, interpretation, and presentation of ...

at Iowa State University in 2000. Her dissertation, ''Asymptotic Inference for Spatial Cumulative Distribution Function'', was jointly supervised by Soumendra Nath Lahiri and Noel Cressie. Zhu serves on the Human Studies Review Board of the United States Environmental Protection Agency. In 2012 she chaired the American Statistical Association's Section on Statistics and the Environment. In 2015 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, and the Section on Statistics and the Environment gave her their Distinguished Achievement Medal.

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