Jo Hardin
{{short description|American statistician}}
Johanna Sarah (Jo) Hardin is an American statistician who works as a professor of mathematics at Pomona College. Her research involves high-throughput analysis for human genome data.{{r|pomona}}
Education and career
Hardin is a Pomona graduate, earning a bachelor's degree there in mathematics in 1995. She initially planned to do actuarial science, but was led to statistics by a faculty mentor, Donald Bentley.{{r|journey}}
She went to the University of California, Davis, for her graduate studies, earning a master's degree in 1997 and a Ph.D. in 2000.{{r|pomona}}
Her dissertation, supervised by David Rocke, was Multivariate Outlier Detection and Robust Clustering with Minimum Covariance Determinant Estimation and S-Estimation.{{r|mgp}}
After postdoctoral studies at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and Seattle University, she returned to Pomona in 2002 as a faculty member.{{r|cv}}
She considers John Crowley, her postdoctoral supervisor, to be her "closest mentor".{{r|journey}}
Recognition
In 2015 she was elected as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association.{{r|fasa}}
She won the Waller Education Award of the American Statistical Society in 2007,{{r|pomona}} and
Pomona's highest faculty honor, the Wig Distinguished Professor award for excellence in teaching, in 2016 and 2023.{{r|wig}}
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External links
- [http://research.pomona.edu/johardin/ Home page]
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