Institute of Mathematical Statistics | Dennis Lin named head of statistics department at Purdue University, and JSM Deming Lecturer

Dennis Lin named head of statistics department at Purdue University, and JSM Deming Lecturer

May 17, 2020

Purdue University’s College of Science has named Dennis K.J. Lin to lead its department of statistics. Lin, who is currently a University Distinguished Professor of supply chain and statistics at Penn State University, will begin his new role at Purdue University in July.

Lin received his Bachelor of Science degree in mathematics from National Tsing-Hua University and his doctoral degree in statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison with a minor in computer science. His research interests are design of experiments, quality assurance, industrial statistics, statistical Inference and data science. An elected Fellow of the Institute for Mathematical Statistics, the American Society of Quality, Royal Statistical Society, International Statistical Institute and the American Statistical Association, he will be the 2020 Deming Lecturer at the upcoming online JSM.