C.F. Jeff Wu

Who is C.F. Jeff Wu?

C.F. Jeff Wu is the Coca-Cola Chair in Engineering Statistics and Professor in the H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at the Georgia Institute of Technology. He is known for his work on the convergence of the EM algorithm, resampling methods such as the bootstrap and jackknife, and industrial statistics, including design of experiments, and robust parameter design.

Born in Taiwan, Wu earned a B.Sc. in Mathematics from National Taiwan University in 1971, and a Ph.D. in Statistics from University of California, Berkeley in 1976. He has been a faculty member at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, the University of Waterloo, the University of Michigan and currently the Georgia Institute of Technology. He has supervised 37 Ph.D. students and published around 140 peer-reviewed articles and two books.

He has received several awards, including the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1987, the COPSS R. A. Fisher Lectureship in 2011 and the Deming Lecturer Award in 2012. He has been elected as a fellow of the American Statistical Association, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, the American Society for Quality and the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences. In 2000 he was elected as a member of Academia Sinica. In 2004, he was elected as a member of the National Academy of Engineering. He received the Shewhart Medal of the American Society for Quality and an honorary degree from the University of Waterloo in 2008.