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]

Tianxi Cai
蔡天西
Education
Scientific career
FieldsBiostatistics
Institutions
Thesis Correlated Survival  (1999)
Doctoral advisorLee-Jen Wei
Doctoral studentsLayla Parast
Websitehttps://www.hsph.harvard.edu/tianxi-cai/

Education and career

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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.[citation needed]

Recognition

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Cai was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2011.[4]

Personal

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Cai is the daughter of Xiaowan Cai [zh] and sister of T. Tony Cai, also a statistician.[2]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Tianxi Cai", Faculty and Researcher Directory, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, retrieved 2018-10-28
  2. ^ a b Biosketch, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, archived from the original on 2018-10-29, retrieved 2018-10-28
  3. ^ Tianxi Cai at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. ^ "ASA Founders Award and Fellows; JSM Plenary Session webcasts", Members' News, IMS Bulletin, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, October–November 2011
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