Faculty News

Shirley Liu and Xihong Lin have both been appointed as Professors of Statistics in the Faculty of Arts and Sciences.  These appointments were approved by the University and the FAS Deans, with support from the HSPH Deans. Shirley has taught   Stat115/Biost 298 (Introduction to Computational Biology) for many years, which is a course for both undergrad and graduate students.

In describing these joint appointments, Xihong recently said: “It’s a great opportunity for building stronger ties between the two departments and for facilitating interactions and collaborations between Cambridge and Longwood. I hope I can use this opportunity to strengthen our department as well as the Harvard Statistics Community. This can be particularly useful in view of the university-wide Data Science Initiative and the One Harvard vision of this initiative.”