I am Dr. Lynn Y. S. Lin Professor of Statistics and Director of the School of Statistics and Chair of the Data Science and AI Hub at the University of Minnesota.

My main research interests are in Markov chain Monte Carlo, statistical theory and methods in both Bayesian and frequentist domains, applications in neuroimaging, astrophysics, and the physical sciences. I have a strong interest in interdisciplinary work and have collaborated with a wide range of researchers including psychologists, veterinarians, librarians, and ecologists, among others.

I earned a PhD in Statistics from the University of Florida in 2001. I am a fellow of both the American Statistical Association and the Institute for Mathematical Statistics. Past Editor of Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. Currently Co-Editor of ASA Discoveries and Associate Editor for Journal of the American Statistical Association and Harvard Data Science Review.

When I’m not doing statistics, I’d mostly rather be outside. Preferably in the mountains.