Sharon Xiangwen Xie
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Sharon Xiangwen Xie is a Chinese biostatistician and epidemiologist who studies neurodegenerative diseases. She is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania.[1]
Education
Xie earned a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics from Beijing University of Technology in 1991. She then attended the University of Texas, where she completed a master's degree in statistics in 1993. After that, she moved to the University of Washington, where she earned a second master's degree in biostatistics in 1995 and a Ph.D. in 1997.[1] Her dissertation, Covariate Measurement Error Methods In Failure Time Regression, was supervised by Ross L. Prentice.[2]
Career
Xie was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018.[3] She serves as program chair for the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association at the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings.[4] In 2021, she was elected secretary of the ASA Lifetime Data Science Section.[5]