SEVENTH ANNUAL JANET L. NORWOOD AWARD

Dr. Lin received her BS in Applied Mathematics from Tsinghua University, MS in Statistics from the University of Iowa and PhD in Biostatistics from the University of Washington. She began her career in academe at the University of Michigan in 1995 where she progressed steadily through the ranks to that of Professor of Biostatistics, a position which she currently occupies at Harvard's School of Public Health. Her research areas include statistical learning methods for high-dimensional data, dimension reduction, variable selection, nonparametric & semiparametric regression models, measurement error, mixed (frailty) models, estimating equations, and missing data. She is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. She is recipient of the COPSS President's Award from the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies as well as a National Cancer Institute MERIT Award recipient. Dr. Lin has been a member of the editorial boards of Biometrika, Biometrics, Statistica Sinica, and the Journal of the American Statistical Association.