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.^[1] Topics in her research include biomarkers, personalized medicine, survival analysis, and health informatics.^[1]

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.^[2] Her dissertation, Correlated Survival, was supervised by Lee-Jen Wei.^[3]

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.^{[citation needed]}

Cai was named a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2011.^[4]

Cai is the daughter of Xiaowan Cai [zh] and sister of T. Tony Cai, also a statistician.^[2]

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