Dennis K.J. Lin

Purdue University’s College of Science has appointed Dennis K.J. Lin to lead its statistics department.

Lin, who is currently a university distinguished professor of supply chain and statistics at Penn State University, will begin his new role at Purdue in July.

Patrick J. Wolfe, the Frederick L. Hovde Dean of Science, says of his new colleague, “We are delighted to welcome to Purdue such an exemplary scholar and leader, who is also recognized for forging deep collaborations across multiple disciplines. As we strengthen the mathematical and computational sciences across Purdue and launch our new flagship facility for these disciplines, Dennis will help cement our position as a national and global leader in data science education and research.”

Lin earned 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 Deming Lecturer at the upcoming 2020 Joint Statistical Meetings.

“I am thrilled to have the opportunity to lead a department with such an outstanding reputation in theoretically-based research,” Lin said. “I look forward to facilitating current research efforts and the educational mission of the department of statistics while exploring ways to bridge theoretical statistical research with the application and development of modern data science.”