Sharon Xiangwen Xie is a Chinese biostatistician and epidemiologist who studies neurodegenerative diseases. She is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania. [1]
Xie earned a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics at Beijing University of Technology in 1991. She came to the University of Texas for a master's degree in statistics, completed in 1993, and then moved to the University of Washington where she earned a second master's degree in biostatistics in 1995 and a Ph.D. in 1997. [1] Her dissertation, Covariate Measurement Error Methods In Failure Time Regression, was supervised by Ross L. Prentice. [2]
Xie was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018. [3] She is program chair for the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association at the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings. [4] She was elected secretary of the ASA Lifetime Data Science Section in 2021. [5]
Sharon Xiangwen Xie is a Chinese biostatistician and epidemiologist who studies neurodegenerative diseases. She is a professor of biostatistics in the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology, and Informatics at the University of Pennsylvania. [1]
Xie earned a bachelor's degree in applied mathematics at Beijing University of Technology in 1991. She came to the University of Texas for a master's degree in statistics, completed in 1993, and then moved to the University of Washington where she earned a second master's degree in biostatistics in 1995 and a Ph.D. in 1997. [1] Her dissertation, Covariate Measurement Error Methods In Failure Time Regression, was supervised by Ross L. Prentice. [2]
Xie was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2018. [3] She is program chair for the Biometrics Section of the American Statistical Association at the 2019 Joint Statistical Meetings. [4] She was elected secretary of the ASA Lifetime Data Science Section in 2021. [5]