Bio
Grace Y. Yi is a Professor and Tier I Canada Research Chair in Data Science at the University of Western Ontario. She is the 2025 Gold Medalist of the Statistical Society of Canada (SSC). She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and the American Statistical Association, and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute. She received the Award for Excellence in Graduate Student Mentoring from the University of Western Ontario.
Professor Yi served as co-editor-in-chief of the Electronic Journal of Statistics (2022–2024), editor-in-chief of the Canadian Journal of Statistics (2016–2018), and is currently serving as editor of the methodology section of the New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science. She has served as president of the Statistical Society of Canada (2021–2022) and as chair of the Lifetime Data Science Section of the American Statistical Association (2023). In 2012 she founded the first chapter of the International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA)—the Canada Chapter.