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}}

References

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{{citation|url=http://pages.pomona.edu/~jsh04747/Research/resume.pdf|title=Curriculum vitae|date=December 2016|accessdate=2017-11-26}}

{{citation|url=http://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|title=ASA Fellows list|publisher=American Statistical Association|accessdate=2017-11-26|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171201042456/https://www.amstat.org/ASA/Your-Career/Awards/ASA-Fellows-list.aspx|archive-date=2017-12-01|url-status=dead}}

{{citation|url=http://magazine.amstat.org/blog/2013/09/01/a-statisticians-journey/|title=A Statistician's Journal|magazine=Amstat News|publisher=American Statistical Association|date=September 1, 2013|accessdate=2017-11-26}}

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{{citation|url=https://www.pomona.edu/directory/people/johanna-s-hardin|title=Johanna S. Hardin, Professor of Mathematics|work=Faculty directory|date=June 2015 |publisher=Pomona College|accessdate=2017-11-26}}

{{citation|url=https://www.pomona.edu/news/2023/05/15-seven-professors-receive-highest-pomona-faculty-honor-commencement|title=Wig Awards|date=30 March 2015 |publisher=Pomona College|accessdate=2017-11-26}}

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