Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver
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Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver | |
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| Education | University of Cincinnati North Carolina State University |
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| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | North Carolina State University |
Jacqueline Mindy-Mae Hughes-Oliver is a Jamaican-born American statistician, whose research interests include drug discovery and chemometrics.[1] She is a retired professor of the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University (NCSU).[2][3]
Hughes-Oliver was born in Jamaica, where she grew up and went to school, living with her grandmother there while her mother worked in the US, in Cincinnati.[4] She became a US citizen at age 12, and moved to the US at age 15.[5] She graduated magna cum laude in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1986,[6] and earned her PhD in statistics at NCSU in 1991,[6] becoming possibly the first African-American doctorate from her department.[5] Her dissertation, entitled "Estimation using group-testing procedures: adaptive iteration", supervised by William H. Swallow, concerned adaptive group testing.[7]
After taking a temporary position at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Hughes-Oliver returned to NCSU as a faculty member in 1992.[6] At NCSU, she directed the Exploratory Center for Cheminformatics Research, a large research group that she founded in 2005 with a large grant from the National Institutes of Health, and directed the graduate program in statistics beginning in 2007.[4][8] She has also worked as a professor of statistics at George Mason University from 2011 to 2014, but kept her position at NCSU and returned to it.[6]
