Wing-Hung Wong

Chinese-American statistician and computational biologist
Person human Q9060796
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Summary

Wing-Hung Wong was born on January 1, 1953[1]. He has worked as a statistician[2], academic[3], and university teacher[4]. He ranks in the top 0.73% of human entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (78 views/month, #7,296 of 1,000,298).[5]

Key Facts

  • Country of citizenship: United States[6]
  • Field of work: statistics[7]
  • Employer: Harvard University[8], University of Chicago[9], University of California, Los Angeles[10], Stanford University[11]
  • Educated at: University of Wisconsin–Madison[12], University of California, Berkeley[13]
  • Doctoral advisor: Grace Wahba[14]
  • Award received: Fellow of the American Statistical Association[15], Guggenheim Fellowship[16], Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[17]
  • Member of: National Academy of Sciences[18], Institute of Mathematical Statistics[19]
  • Sex or gender: male[20]
  • Doctoral student: Xiaotong Shen[21], Qing Zhou[22], Jun Liu[23], Valen Johnson[24], George Tseng[25], Richard J. Chappell[26], Thomas A. Severini[27], Martin A. Tanner[28], Ming-Chih Kao[29], Ryung Suk Kim[30], Sheng Zhong[31], Faming Liang[32], Hui-Nien Hung[33], Ming-Long Lam[34]
  • Family name: Wang[35]
  • Professorship: Stephen R. Pierce Family Goldman Sachs Professorship in Science and Human Health[36]
  • Official website: https://profiles.stanford.edu/wing%20wong[37]
  • Work location: Stanford[38]
  • Affiliation: Stanford University Statistics Department[39], Stanford University Department of Biomedical Data Science[40]
  • Maintained by WikiProject: WikiProject Mathematics[41]

Why It Matters

Wing-Hung Wong is known by 8 alternative names across languages and contexts.[42]

FAQs

What did Wing-Hung Wong do for work?

Wing-Hung Wong worked as a statistician[2], academic[3], and university teacher[4].

Where did Wing-Hung Wong go to school?

Wing-Hung Wong was educated at University of Wisconsin–Madison[12] and University of California, Berkeley[13].

What awards did Wing-Hung Wong receive?

Honors received include Fellow of the American Statistical Association[15], Guggenheim Fellowship[16], and Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics[17].

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  2. [6] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  3. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  4. [13] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] ↑ . profiles.stanford.edu. profiles.stanford.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  6. [2] ↑ . profiles.stanford.edu. profiles.stanford.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  8. [4] ↑ . profiles.stanford.edu. profiles.stanford.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  9. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  11. [10] ↑ . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  12. [11] ↑ . ORCID Public Data File 2020. Retrieved . profiles.stanford.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  13. [15] ↑ . Fellows of the American Statistical Association database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] ↑ . Scientific Legacy Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  16. [14] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  17. [21] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  18. [22] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  19. [23] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  20. [24] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  21. [25] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  22. [26] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  23. [27] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  24. [28] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  25. [29] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  26. [30] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  27. [31] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  28. [32] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  29. [33] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  30. [34] ↑ . Mathematics Genealogy Project. wikidata.org.
  31. [18] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  32. [19] ↑ . Scientific Legacy Database. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  33. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  34. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  35. [36] ↑ . profiles.stanford.edu. profiles.stanford.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  36. [37] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  37. [38] ↑ . profiles.stanford.edu. profiles.stanford.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  38. [39] ↑ . profiles.stanford.edu. profiles.stanford.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  39. [40] ↑ . profiles.stanford.edu. profiles.stanford.edu. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  40. [41] ↑ . wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [5] ↑ . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [42] ↑ . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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    Doctoral student → Xiaotong Shen, Qing Zhou, Jun Liu +22
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