Kim-Anh Do is an Australian

biostatistician Biostatistics (also known as biometry) are the development and application of statistical methods to a wide range of topics in biology. It encompasses the design of biological experiments, the collection and analysis of data from those experimen ...

of Vietnamese descent. She is the chair of the Department of Biostatistics in the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, and the holder of the Electa C. Taylor Chair for Cancer Research at the center. She also holds adjunct professorships at Texas A&M University and Rice University. Do did her undergraduate studies at the University of Queensland, in mathematics and computer science. She then went to

Stanford University Stanford University, officially Leland Stanford Junior University, is a private research university in Stanford, California. The campus occupies , among the largest in the United States, and enrolls over 17,000 students. Stanford is consider ...

for graduate study in statistics. She completed her Ph.D. in 1990 with a dissertation ''Some Results in Statistical Modeling and Estimation for Software Reliability Problems'' supervised by Jerome H. Friedman. With

Geoffrey McLachlan Geoffrey John McLachlan FAA (born 3 October 1946) is an Australian researcher in computational statistics, machine learning and pattern recognition. McLachlan is best known for his work in classification and finite mixture models. He is the joi ...

and Christophe Ambroise, Do is the author of ''Analyzing Microarray Gene Expression Data'' (Wiley, 2004). Do is a fellow of the

American Association for the Advancement of Science The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) is an American international non-profit organization with the stated goals of promoting cooperation among scientists, defending scientific freedom, encouraging scientific respons ...

, the American Statistical Association, and the Royal Statistical Society. She is an elected member of the

International Statistical Institute The International Statistical Institute (ISI) is a professional association of statisticians. It was founded in 1885, although there had been international statistical congresses since 1853. The institute has about 4,000 elected members from gov ...

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