Xinlei (Sherry) Wang is a Chinese and American statistician, the Jenkins-Garrett Professor of Statistics and Data Science at the University of Texas at Arlington.
[1] Her research has applied Bayesian statistics and machine learning to applications including computer security and genomics.
Wang studied control theory as an undergraduate at the University of Science and Technology of China, graduating in 1997.
[2] Her doctoral dissertation, Bayesian Variable Selection for Generalized Linear Models, was supervised by Edward I.
In 2023, she moved to University of Texas at Arlington as Jenkins-Garrett Professor in the department of mathematics,[1] and founding director of the Center for Data Science Research and Education.