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Yajun Mei Receives NSF CAREER Award
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Yajun Mei, assistant professor in the Stewart School of
Industrial and Systems Engineering, has received the prestigious
National
Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER award. The NSF recognized Mei.for his exemplary work in sequential
analysis and decentralized network.
The NSF offers this prestigious
award as part of the Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Program
in
support of junior faculty who exemplify the role of teacher-scholars
through
outstanding research, excellent education, and the integration of
education and
research within the context of the mission of their organizations.
Jeff
Wu, Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics at IsyE, states that
“Yajun
belongs to a select group of young statisticians who excel in esoteric
(and
elegant) theory such as sequential analysis as well as significant
applications
such as decentralized sensor network. ISyE is proud of having such
talented
young researchers among its ranks.”
Professor Mei is the fourth NSF
CAREER Award winner in the statistics/quality group at the Stewart
School of
ISyE in the last four years. He joins the ranks of professors Roshan
Vengazhiyil, Nagi Gebraeel; and Ming Yuan, who received the award in
2006, 2007
and 2009, respectively.
Professor Mei’s research interests include change-point
problems and sequential analysis in Mathematical Statistics; sensor
networks
and information theory in Engineering; and longitudinal data analysis,
random
effects models, and clinical trials in Biostatistics.
He received a B.S. in Mathematics from Peking University in
P.R. China, and a PhD in Mathematics with a minor in Electrical
Engineering
from the California Institute of Technology. Mei also worked as a
Postdoc in
Biostatistics for two years in the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research
Center in
Seattle, WA.
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- Created By: Edie Cohen
- Created: 03/08/2010
- Modified By: Fletcher Moore
- Modified: 10/07/2016
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