Xinyi Xu

This article is about the statistician. For the kunqu and opera performer, see Xu Xiaoxiang.

Xinyi Xu is a Chinese-American statistician and a professor of statistics at Ohio State University. Her research includes work on high-dimensional Bayesian hierarchical modeling, model selection, and density estimation.^[1]

Education and career

Xu has a 2001 bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China. She went to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate study in statistics, earning a master's degree in 2003 and completing her Ph.D. in 2005.^[2] Her dissertation, Estimation of High Dimensional Predictive Densities, was supervised by Edward I. George.^[3][4]

She took her present position at Ohio State University in 2005,^[1] and earned tenure there in 2012.^[5]

Recognition

Xu received the 2005 Savage Award of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, for one of two best dissertations that year.^[4]

She was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2022, "for her fundamental contributions to predictive estimation and decision theory, Bayesian nonparametric methods, and model choice; for her service to the statistics profession; and for her advancement of Bayesian methods throughout the world".^[6]