Lynn Kuo
Treasurer
(2017 – 2022)
Lynn Kuo is a professor at the Department of
Statistics, University of Connecticut. She received all
her three degrees BS, MA, and Ph.D. in Mathematics from
UCLA. She worked as an engineer at the Jet Propulsion
Lab for three years after obtaining her MA degree. She
is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and
an ordinary member of the International Statistical
Institute. She worked as a research fellow at the
Statistical Survey Institute at USDA, and later at the
Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute
(SAMSI). Her research interests are in nonparametric
Bayesian statistics, decision theory, biostatistics,
bioinformatics, Bayesian phylogenetics, survival and
longitudinal data analysis, omics data analysis, and
survey sampling. She has published at least 90 refereed
papers, one edited book, and supervised 13
Ph.D. students. She has served as an Associate Editor
for the Journal of American Statistical Association and
Naval Research Logistics, and numerous review panels for
CDC, NIH, and NSF.
