| Augustine Kong | |
| Birth Name: | Chung Tung Augustine Kong |
| Fields: | Statistical genetics |
| Workplaces: | University of Chicago deCODE genetics University of Oxford |
| Education: | Harvard University |
| Thesis Title: | Multivariate belief functions and graphical models |
| Thesis Url: | https://books.google.com/books/about/Multivariate_Belief_Functions_and_Graphi.html?id=gXVCHAAACAAJ |
| Thesis Year: | 1986 |
| Doctoral Advisor: | Arthur Pentland Dempster |
| Doctoral Students: | Jun S. Liu |
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Chung Tung Augustine Kong is a statistical geneticist who is Professor of Statistical Genetics at the University of Oxford's Nuffield Department of Medicine, where he is also the Senior Group Leader in Genomic Epidemiology.[1] He was previously the head of the statistics team at the Icelandic company deCODE genetics, and before that, he taught at the University of Chicago.[2] He has conducted research on the genetic basis of educational attainment[3] and the way in which it can be influenced by "genetic nurture", or the genes carried by parents but not passed on to their children.[4] [5]