Susan R. Wilson

Bioinformatics Gene Expression Applied Statistics Population, Ecological And Evolutionary Genetics Susan Ruth Wilson (19 March 1948[3] – 16 March 2020)[4] was an Australian statistician, known for her research in biostatistics and statistical genetics, and for her work on the understanding of AIDS in Australia.

[3] She earned her Ph.D. in 1972 from Australian National University; her dissertation, supervised by P. A. P. Moran, was Some Statistical Results in Genetics.

In 1994, she was given a professorship in Statistical Science in the Centre for Mathematics and its Applications.

[3] At her death, she was a professor emeritus of bioinformation science and statistical science at Australian National University[1] and also an honorary professor in the School of Mathematics and Statistics at the University of New South Wales.

[6] She was elected as a member of the International Statistical Institute in 1979, as a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 1991, as a fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics,[5] and as an honorary life member of the International Biometric Society in 2012.