Tianxi Cai

The native form of this personal name is Cai Tianxi. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

Tianxi Cai
Chinese: 蔡天西
Education	University of Science and Technology of China Harvard University (Sc.D.)
Scientific career
Fields	Biostatistics
Institutions	University of Washington Harvard University
Thesis	Correlated Survival  (1999)
Doctoral advisor	Lee-Jen Wei
Doctoral students	Layla Parast
Website	https://www.hsph.harvard.edu/tianxi-cai/

Tianxi Cai (Chinese: 蔡天西) is a Chinese biostatistician. She is the John Rock Professor of Population and Translational Data Sciences in the Department of Biostatistics at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. Topics in her research include biomarkers, personalized medicine, survival analysis, and health informatics.

Education and career

Cai graduated from the University of Science and Technology of China in 1995, with a bachelor's degree in mathematics. She earned her doctorate (Sc.D.) in biostatistics at Harvard University in 1999. Her dissertation, Correlated Survival, was supervised by Lee-Jen Wei.

She worked as an assistant professor of biostatistics at the University of Washington from 2000 to 2002, before returning to Harvard as a faculty member.

Recognition

Cai was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2011.

Personal

Cai is the daughter of Xiaowan Cai and sister of T. Tony Cai, also a statistician.

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