About Samuel Kou
Born 1974. Samuel Kou is a mathematician.
Shingchang "Samuel" Kou (; born in 1974) is a Chinese American statistician and Professor of Statistics at Harvard University.
Biography He earned a bachelor's degree in computational mathematics at Peking University. He graduated in 1997 and then moved to the United States to study statistics at Stanford University under Bradley Efron. He earned his Ph.D. in 2001 and subsequently joined the statistics faculty at Harvard University.
In 2008, he became a full professor of statistics at Harvard.
Honors and awards In 2007, he was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association.
Selected publications S. C. Kou, Qing Zhou, and Wing Hung Wong. "Equi-energy sampler with applications in statistical inference and statistical mechanics". Annals of Statistics, 34(4), 1581–1619, 2006.
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