Lynn Kuo
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Lynn Kuo (born 1949)[1] is a professor emerita of statistics at the University of Connecticut[2] known for her work on statistical decision theory,[3][4] software reliability,[5] and Bayesian inference in phylogeny. With Ming-Hui Chen and Paul O. Lewis, she is the author of Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms, and Applications (CRC Press, 2014).[6][7]
Kuo did both her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles,[8] completing her PhD in 1980. Her dissertation, supervised by Thomas S. Ferguson, was Computations and Applications of Mixtures of Dirichlet Processes.[9] She has worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute before joining the Connecticut faculty.[8]
She was the treasurer of the New England Statistical Society,[8] and has also worked as treasurer for the International Chinese Statistical Association.[10]
