Lynn Kuo (born 1949)^[1] is a professor of statistics at the University of Connecticut^[2] known for her work on Bayesian inference in phylogeny. With Ming-Hui Chen and Paul O. Lewis, she is the author of Bayesian Phylogenetics: Methods, Algorithms, and Applications (CRC Press, 2014).^[3][4]

Kuo did both her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of California, Los Angeles,^[5] completing her PhD in 1980. Her dissertation, supervised by Thomas S. Ferguson, was Computations and Applications of Mixtures of Dirichlet Processes.^[6] She has worked at the Jet Propulsion Lab, the United States Department of Agriculture, and the Statistical and Applied Mathematical Sciences Institute before joining the Connecticut faculty.^[5]

She is the treasurer of the New England Statistical Society,^[5] and has also worked as treasurer for the International Chinese Statistical Association.^[7]

Kuo is a fellow of the American Statistical Association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.^[5] In 2013, she won the Outstanding Service Award of the International Chinese Statistical Association.^[7]

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