Xuming He
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Founders Award from American Statistical Association
Gottfried E. Noether Distinguished Scholar Award
Washington University in St. Louis (2023–current)
Xuming He | |
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| Awards | Carver Medal from Institute of Mathematical Statistics Founders Award from American Statistical Association Gottfried E. Noether Distinguished Scholar Award |
| Academic background | |
| Education | Fudan University University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign |
| Academic work | |
| Discipline | Statistics |
| Institutions | University of Michigan (2011–2020) Washington University in St. Louis (2023–current) |
Xuming He (Chinese: 何旭铭) is the Kotzubei Beckmann Distinguished Professor and Inaugural Chair of Statistics and Data Science at the Washington University in St. Louis. He serves as President (2023–2025) of the International Statistical Institute.
He earned a bachelor's degree in Applied Mathematics from Fudan University in 1984. He went to graduate school at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 1985 and received a Master's degree in Mathematics and then Ph.D. in Statistics in 1989. He joined the University of Michigan as H. C. Carver Collegiate Professor in 2011, and served as Department Chair from 2015 to 2020. He was appointed as the inaugural chair of the department of Statistics and Data Science at Washington University in St. Louis on July 1, 2023. His prior appointments include faculty positions at National University of Singapore and University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research interests include theory and methodology in robust statistics, semiparametric models, quantile regression, data depth, dimension reduction, and subgroup analysis. His interdisciplinary research aims to promote the better use of statistics in biosciences, climate studies, dysphagia research, and social-economic studies.