Xinyi Xu

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]

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]