Wing Hung Wong () is a Chinese-American statistician,

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, and Stanford University professor.

Biography

Wong graduated from the

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in 1976 with a bachelor's degree. At the

University of Wisconsin–Madison A university () is an institution of higher (or tertiary) education and research which awards academic degrees in several academic disciplines. Universities typically offer both undergraduate and postgraduate programs. In the United Stat ...

, he studied under renowned statistician

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, and was awarded a PhD in Statistics in 1980. After graduation, he taught at the

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, served as an assistant professor, associate professor, and professor. In 1994 he joined the

Chinese University of Hong Kong The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong, formally established in 1963 by a charter granted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It is the territory's second-oldest university and ...

Department of Statistics. Since 1997, he taught and led his lab at the

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and

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. In 2004, he was appointed Professor at Stanford University, and served as Head of the Department of Statistics at Stanford University in 2009. As of 2020, he is Professor of Statistics and Biomedical Data Science at Stanford. His students include George Tseng at University of Pittsburgh, Rick Chappell at

, and Jun S. Liu at

Honors and awards

Wong is a fellow of National Academy of Sciences in the United States and Academia Sinica (2010). He won the highest award in the field of Statistics COPSS Presidents' Award in 1993. In 2021 he was awarded the COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship.

Selected publications

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The Calculation of Posterior Distributions by Data Augmentation
. ''Journal of the American Statistical Association''. 82(398): 528-540. 1987. *
Evolutionary Monte Carlo: Applications to C_p Model Sampling and Change Point Problem
. ''Statistica Sinica''. 10: 317-342. 2000.

External links

Stanford faculty page

Wong Lab page

Mathematics Genealogy Project – Wing-Hung Wong
{{DEFAULTSORT:Wong, Wing Hung Living people American statisticians Members of the United States National Academy of Sciences 20th-century American mathematicians 21st-century American mathematicians Bayesian statisticians University of California, Berkeley alumni University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science alumni Fellows of the American Statistical Association Members of Academia Sinica American people of Chinese descent University of Chicago faculty Chinese University of Hong Kong faculty University of California, Los Angeles faculty Harvard University faculty Stanford University faculty Chinese statisticians Year of birth missing (living people)