Xinyi Xu is a Chinese-American statistician and a professor of statistics at Ohio State University.
[1] Xu has a 2001 bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Science and Technology of China.
She went to the University of Pennsylvania for graduate study in statistics, earning a master's degree in 2003 and completing her Ph.D. in 2005.
[5] Xu received the 2005 Savage Award of the International Society for Bayesian Analysis, for one of two best dissertations that year.
[4] She was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2022, "for her fundamental contributions to predictive estimation and decision theory, Bayesian nonparametric methods, and model choice; for her service to the statistics profession; and for her advancement of Bayesian methods throughout the world".