Dennis K.J. Lin
Dennis K.J. Lin is a Taiwanese-American statistician who works in design of experiments, quality assurance, data mining, and data science.
Education and early life
He was born in Taiwan and obtained a bachelor's degree in June 1981 from National Tsing-Hua University, ROC. He received a Ph.D. in December 1988 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, with a minor in computer science.Career and research
From 1995 to 2020, Lin worked as a statistician for Pennsylvania State University, and became a university distinguished professor. Since July 2020 - August 2023, he has been the head at the department of statistics at Purdue University and currently serves as a distinguished professor of statistics in Purdue.Lin published a total of over 200 papers in professional journals.
Lin is known for his contributions to the design of experiments, industrial statistics and Ghost Data.
Professional fellowships
- Elected Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
- Elected Fellow, American Society for Quality
- Elected Fellow, American Statistical Association
- Elected Member, International Statistical Institute
- Fellow, Royal Statistical Society