2000 Distinguished Alumna Jing Y. Shyr

Ph.D. Purdue University - 1984

Dr. Jing Shyr is Chief Statistician and Vice President of Development for SPSS. She manages Analytic product lines, several of them are targeted for data mining. She is also involved in the company's strategic product planning. As the Chief Statistician for the company, she often gives presentations to the statistical community, major clients and international offices. She has been with SPSS for 13 years. Prior to SPSS, she taught in the MBA program at Vanderbilt University for two years. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from Purdue in 1984.

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