T. Tony Cai

T. Tony Cai (Chinese: 蔡天文; aka Tianwen Cai) (born March, 1967), is a Chinese statistician. He is the current Dorothy Silberberg Professor and Professor of Statistics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. He is the winner of 2008 COPSS Presidents' Award.

Cai's research interests include high-dimensional inference, large-scale multiple testing, nonparametric function estimation, functional data analysis, inference for discrete distributions, and statistical decision theory, with applications to compressed sensing, chemical identification, medical imaging and microarray data analysis.

Cai was born in Rui'an, Wenzhou, Zhejiang Province, People's Republic of China. In 1986, Cai graduated from the Department of Mathematics, Hangzhou University (previous and current Department of Mathematics, Zhejiang University) when he was only 18 years old. In 1989, Cai received MSc from Shanghai Jiao Tong University. Cai earned PhD from Cornell University in 1996.

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