Faculty Spotlight - Dr. Mosuk Chow

I am a research professor of Statistics in the Eberly College of Science at Penn State. Originally from Hong Kong, I came to the United States to pursue graduate study after getting my BS degree in Mathematics. I earned my Ph.D. in Statistics from Cornell University and have taught at the Statistics Department of Penn State University since 1997. My research interests include biostatistics, sampling methods, and statistical decision theory. If you would like to know more about my background and research interests, you can check out  my homepage,  in the faculty section of the Statistics Department Web Site.

On the personal side, when our two daughters were young, I enjoyed taking them to hike and pick berries in the wild area around State College. Once, we went hiking in the Bear Meadow by Tussey Mountain which was only 25 minutes from here, and we were overjoyed to find a large blueberry patch. Those blueberries tasted so good! We could also walk five minutes from our house and collected plump and juicy raspberries. Now that our daughters are grown and left home, I frequently go mushroom hunting with a group of friends. Even though we rarely find morels, we have gathered lots of chanterelle and hens of the wood. And, we sometimes visit very scenic places too. The waterfall in my profile picture looks great, right? It was taken at Ricketts Glen State Park. The park has a beautiful waterfall trail and only two hours from State College. I highly recommend visiting it.