Xihong Lin

Xihong Lin (Chinese: 林希虹) is a Chinese–American statistician known for her contributions to mixed models, nonparametric and semiparametric regression, and statistical genetics and genomics.

As of 2015[update], she is the Henry Pickering Walcott Professor and Chair of the Department of Biostatistics at Harvard T.H.

Chan School of Public Health and Coordinating Director of the Program in Quantitative Genomics.

[4][5] She won the Florence Nightingale David Award of the Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies in 2017 "for leadership and collaborative research in statistical genetics and bioinformatics; and for passion and dedication in mentoring students and young statisticians".

Her dissertation was Bias Correction in Generalized Linear Mixed Models.