Grace Yang facts for kids
Grace Lo Yang (simplified Chinese: 罗昭容; traditional Chinese: 羅昭容; pinyin: Luó Zhāoróng) is a smart Taiwanese scientist. She is a statistician. This means she uses math to understand information and make predictions.
Grace Lo Yang studies many interesting things. She looks at how things change over time in science, like how particles move. She also studies how to make good guesses about the future using math. Another area she works on is called "survival analysis." This helps understand how long things last, like how long a machine works or how long a medicine helps someone.
She is a professor of statistics at the University of Maryland, College Park. This is a big university in the United States. From 1990 to 1991, she was the president of the International Chinese Statistical Association. This is a group for statisticians from China and around the world. She also worked for the National Science Foundation from 2005 to 2008. This is a U.S. government group that helps fund science research.
Grace Lo Yang's Life and Studies
Grace Lo Yang was born in China. In 1949, she moved to Taiwan. She went to National Taiwan University for her first college degree.
Later, she moved to the United States. In 1966, she earned her highest degree, a doctorate, from the University of California, Berkeley. Her main teacher was a famous mathematician named Lucien Le Cam. For her doctorate, she wrote about how diseases spread using math models.
Grace Lo Yang also wrote a book with Lucien Le Cam. It is called Asymptotics in Statistics: Some Basic Concepts. The first version came out in 1990, and a new one was published in 2002. This book helps people learn about advanced math ideas in statistics.
Awards and Special Honors
Grace Lo Yang is a member of the International Statistical Institute. This is a very old and respected group for statisticians from all over the world. She is also a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Being a "fellow" means she is recognized as a top expert in her field.
