Rate My Professor Xiaoyan Lin

Xiaoyan (Iris) Lin is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of South Carolina, joining the faculty in 2008 as a Visiting Assistant Professor and advancing to Assistant Professor in 2010. She earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Missouri-Columbia in 2008, with a dissertation on “Bayesian Hierarchical Models for the Memory-Recognition Experiment” advised by Dr. Dongchu Sun, achieving a perfect GPA of 4.0/4.0. Lin also holds an M.S. in Statistics, specializing in Mathematical Statistics, from the same institution in 2005, and a B.S. in Statistics from East China Normal University in 2001. Earlier roles include Graduate Fellow at the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute in 2008, and graduate research and teaching positions at the University of Missouri-Columbia from 2003 to 2008, where she taught courses and developed Bayesian models.

Lin's research centers on Bayesian statistics applied to survival analysis and medical diagnostic accuracy and ROC analysis, with emphasis on methods for censored and ordinal data, including latent graphical models for ordinal dependencies, neural networks for ordinal classification, and Bayesian Additive Regression Trees for censored survival data. Key publications feature “Bayesian proportional hazards model for current status data with monotone splines” in Computational Statistics & Data Analysis (2011), “A semiparametric probit model for case 2 interval-censored failure time data” in Statistics in Medicine (2010), “A Bayesian proportional hazards model for general interval-censored data” in Lifetime Data Analysis (2015), and “Bayesian hierarchical latent class models for estimating diagnostic accuracy” in Statistical Methods in Medical Research (2020). She has participated in an NIH grant on agreement webs, presented at Joint Statistical Meetings, ENAR, and O-Bayes conferences, and reviewed for journals such as Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. Awards include the Superior Graduate Student Achievement Award and JSM Travel Award from the University of Missouri-Columbia Graduate School (2006-2007).