Jane-Ling Wang (Chinese: 王建玲) is a distinguished professor of statistics at the University of California, Davis[1] who studies dimension reduction, functional data analysis, and aging.
Wang graduated from National Taiwan University in 1975 with a bachelor of arts degree in mathematics.
She earned a master's of arts in mathematics in 1978 from the University of California, Berkeley, and in 1982, obtained a doctorate in statistics from the University of California, Berkeley; her dissertation, supervised by Lucien Le Cam, was Asymptotically Minimax Estimators for Distributions with Increasing Failure Rate.
[2] She won the Outstanding Service Award of the International Chinese Statistical Association in 2010.
[2] She is the 2016 winner of the Gottfried E. Noether Senior Scholar Award of the American Statistical Association.