Shingchang "Samuel" Kou (; born in 1974) is a Chinese American

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 Professor of Statistics at

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Biography

He earned a bachelor's degree in computational mathematics at

Peking University Peking University (PKU; ) is a public research university in Beijing, China. The university is funded by the Ministry of Education. Peking University was established as the Imperial University of Peking in 1898 when it received its royal charter ...

. He graduated in 1997 and then moved to the United States to study statistics at

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 ...

under Bradley Efron. He earned his Ph.D. in 2001 and subsequently joined the statistics faculty at Harvard University. In 2008, he became a full professor of statistics at Harvard.

Honors and awards

In 2007, he was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association. In 2013, he was awarded a

Guggenheim fellowship Guggenheim Fellowships are grants that have been awarded annually since by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation to those "who have demonstrated exceptional capacity for productive scholarship or exceptional creative ability in the ar ...

. He received the

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. The COPSS Presidents' Award is generally ...

in 2012. The reason for receiving the award was described as follows:

Selected publications

* S. C. Kou, Qing Zhou, and

Wing Hung Wong Wing Hung Wong () is a Chinese-American statistician, computational biologist, and Stanford University professor. Biography Wong graduated from the University of California, Berkeley in 1976 with a bachelor's degree. At the University of Wisco ...

.
Equi-energy sampler with applications in statistical inference and statistical mechanics
. '' Annals of Statistics'', 34(4), 1581–1619, 2006.

References

External links

Faculty website
* {{DEFAULTSORT:Kou, Samuel 1974 births Living people American statisticians Harvard University faculty Peking University alumni Stanford University alumni Fellows of the American Statistical Association People from Lanzhou