Chin Long Chiang, Professor in the Graduate School, Univer- sity of
California, Berkeley, was born on November 12,1914, in Ningbo, Zhejiang
Province, China. He received his B.A.degree in economics in 1940 from National
Tsing Hua University in China; his M.A.degree in 1948 and his Ph.D. degree in
1953, both in statistics from University of California, Berkeley.Dr.Chiang was
on the U. C. Berkeley faculty for 36 years and has served as Chairman of the
Program in Biostatistics, of the Division of Measurement Sciences and of the
Faculty of the School of Public Health,and as Co-chairman of the Group of
Biostatistics. When he retired in l987, the University honored him with
“The Berkeley Citation ” award for his “distinguished
achievement.” He was recalled to active duty in 1996. Dr.Chiang has been
invited as a visiting professor at the following universities: Harvard; Yale;
Pittsburgh; North Carolina; Emory; Michigan; Minnesota; Texas; Vanderbilt; and
Washington at Seattle. He has given courses at Peking University, Beijing
Medical University and Tongji Medical University, all in China, and at Tunghai
University in Taiwan. In addition to his many scientific articles, he has
published four books, two of which are about stochastic processes. Three of his
books have been translated into Chinese and one into Japanese. Professor Chiang
is a Fellow of the American Statistical Association, of the Institute of
Mathematical Statistics and of the Royal Statistical Society of London. He has
served as a special consultant to several national and international agencies.
Professor Chiang is residing with his wife in Berkeley, California. They have
two sons and one daughter, and two grandsons.