| Samuel Kou | |
| Birth Place: | Lanzhou, China[1] |
| Other Names: | S.C. Kou |
| Fields: | Statistics |
| Workplaces: | Harvard University |
| Alma Mater: | Peking University Stanford University |
| Thesis Title: | Extended Exponential Criterion: A New Selection Procedure for Scatterplot Smoothers |
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| Thesis Year: | 2001 |
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| Doctoral Advisor: | Bradley Efron |
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Shingchang "Samuel" Kou (; born in 1974) is a Chinese American statistician and Professor of Statistics at Harvard University.
He earned a bachelor's degree in computational mathematics at Peking University. He graduated in 1997 and then moved to the United States to study statistics at Stanford University under Bradley Efron. He earned his Ph.D. in 2001 and subsequently joined the statistics faculty at Harvard University.
In 2008, he became a full professor of statistics at Harvard.[2]
In 2007, he was elected a fellow of the American Statistical Association.[2] In 2013, he was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship.[1]
He received the COPSS Presidents' Award in 2012. The reason for receiving the award was described as follows:[3]