Yanqing Sun, a professor of statistics in the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences Department of Mathematics and Statistics, recently was named a fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), the nation’s preeminent professional statistical society.
To be recognized as a 2013 ASA Fellow, each honoree must make outstanding professional contributions to and have exhibited leadership in the field of statistical science. Sun was honored for outstanding contributions to statistical research on survival and event history data, competing risks data and longitudinal data; for excellence in applications of statistical methodology in biomedical research; and for outstanding service to teaching and the profession.
"I love my job as a statistician and as a professor,” Sun said. “Being elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association is a great honor. I am very happy about this recognition. I would like to thank my colleagues for their support and UNC Charlotte for providing me a working environment that made this possible."
Sun will receive her award formally during an Aug. 6 ceremony at the annual Joint Statistical Meetings in Montréal, Québec, Canada.
A faculty member at UNC Charlotte since 1994, Sun earned a Ph.D. and a master’s degree from Florida State University. She was a visiting scientist at Frontier Science Foundation in Boston in 2002 and an assistant professor on leave from 1995 to 1996 as a contract statistician for the vaccine safety project at the Centers for Disease Control.