Tianwen Tony Cai (蔡天文) | |
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| Born | Tianwen Cai 1967 (age 56–57) |
| Education | Zhejiang University Shanghai Jiao Tong University Cornell University |
| Relatives | Tianxi Cai (sister) |
| Awards | COPSS Presidents' Award (2008) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | Purdue University University of Pennsylvania |
| Thesis | Nonparametric Function Estimation via Wavelets (1996) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lawrence D. Brown |
| Website | http://www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu/~tcai/ |
Tianwen Tony Cai (Chinese: 蔡天文; pinyin: Cài Tiānwén; born March, 1967) is a Chinese statistician. He is the Daniel H. Silberberg Professor of Statistics and Vice Dean at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is also professor of Applied Math & Computational Science Graduate Group, and associate scholar at the Department of Biostatistics, Epidemiology & Informatics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania. In 2008 Cai received the COPSS Presidents' Award.