Tianxi Cai
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Tianxi Cai | |
|---|---|
| 蔡天西 | |
| Education | |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Biostatistics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Correlated Survival (1999) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lee-Jen Wei |
| Doctoral students | Layla Parast |
| Website | https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/tianxi-cai/ |
Tianxi Cai (Chinese: 蔡天西) is a Chinese biostatistician. She is the John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health.[1] Topics in her research include biomarkers, personalized medicine, survival analysis, and health informatics.[1]
Cai graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She earned her doctorate (Sc.D.) in biostatistics at Harvard University in 1999.[2] Her dissertation, Correlated Survival, was supervised by Lee-Jen Wei.[3]
She worked as an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington from 2000 to 2002, before returning to Harvard as a faculty member.[4]
Recognition
Cai was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2011.[5] In 2025, she was named a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[6]
