Jacqueline Hughes-Oliver

Jacqueline Mindy-Mae Hughes-Oliver is a Jamaican-born American statistician, whose research interests include drug discovery and chemometrics. She is a retired professor of the Statistics Department of North Carolina State University (NCSU).

Education and career Hughes-Oliver was born in Jamaica, where she grew up and went to school, living with her grandmother there while her mother worked in the US, in Cincinnati. She became a US citizen at age 12, and moved to the US at age 15. She graduated magna cum laude in mathematics from the University of Cincinnati in 1986,

After taking a temporary position at the University of Wisconsin at Madison, Hughes-Oliver returned to NCSU as a faculty member in 1992. She has also worked as a professor of statistics at George Mason University from 2011 to 2014, but kept her position at NCSU and returned to it.

Awards and honors In 2007 Hughes-Oliver was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. She is the 2014 winner of the Blackwell-Tapia prize, awarded both for her contributions to the methodology and applications of statistics and also for her efforts to increase the diversity of the mathematical sciences. Her work also earned her recognition by Mathematically Gifted & Black as a Black History Month 2017 Honoree. She was elected to the 2022 class of Fellows of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS).