Xiao-Li Meng (; born 1963) is a Chinese American statistician and the Whipple V. N. Jones Professor of Statistics at Harvard University. He has written numerous research papers about Markov chain Monte Carlo algorithms and other statistical methodology.
Early life Meng received his B.Sc. from Fudan University in 1982 and his Ph.D. in statistics from Harvard University in 1990.
Career From 2004 to 2012, Meng was the Chair of Harvard's Department of Statistics, where he helped create innovative new statistics courses designed to give students a more positive impression of the subject.Lock, Kari and Xiao-Li Meng. "Real-Life Module Statistics: A Happy Harvard Experiment ." International Conference on Teaching Statistics, Ljubljana, Slovenia, July 11–16, 2010, . He edited the journals Bayesian Analysis from 2003 to 2005 and Statistica Sinica from 2005 to 2008."Abbreviated Curriculum Vitae of Xiao-Li Meng," Department of Statistics, Harvard University, accessed June 5, 2011, http://www.stat.harvard.edu/Faculty_Content/Meng-cv.pdf . On August 14, 2012, Xiao-Li Meng was appointed dean of Harvard Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. Since its inception in 2019, he has been the editor of the Harvard Data Science Review.
Selected publications
Awards and honors He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2001."Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies: Presidents' Award: Past Award Recipients," National Institute of Statistical Sciences, accessed June 5, 2011, http://nisla05.niss.org/copss/PastAwardsPresidents.pdf .
He was elected a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 1997"IMS Fellows," Institute of Mathematical Statistics, accessed June 5, 2011, http://www.imstat.org/awards/honored_fellows.htm . and of the American Statistical Association in 2004."ASA Fellows," American Statistical Association, accessed June 5, 2011, http://www.amstat.org/careers/fellowslist.cfm . He was elected fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (AAAS) in 2020. In 2013 he was recipient of the American Statistical Association's Founders Award.
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External links Xiao-Li Meng's home page