Eric C. Chi
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics
Rice University
Also affiliated with Ken Kennedy Institute
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics
Rice University
Also affiliated with Ken Kennedy Institute
Eric Chi received a PhD degree in statistics from Rice University. After his PhD, he completed postdoctoral positions in the Human Genetics department at UCLA and the Digital Signal Processing group at Rice University. Since 2021, he has been an associate professor in the Department of Statistics at Rice University. Prior to joining Rice University, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University.
He received an NSF CAREER award in 2018 and an ORAU Ralph E. Powe Junior Faculty Enhancement Award in 2017. He has served as an Associate Editor of the Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics since 2016, and has been on the Editorial Board of Statistical Methods in Medical Research since 2011.
His current research interests are in statistical learning and numerical optimization, and their application to analyzing large and complicated modern data in biological science and engineering applications.
Email: echi [at] rice [dot] edu