Kai Fun Yu ’73

Kai Fun Yu ’73 died on July 8, 2021, from causes related to lymphoma. Kai came to Dartmouth from St. Francis Xavier College in Kowloon, Hong Kong. He majored in mathematics. Following graduation from the College, he earned a Ph.D. in statistics at Columbia University in 1978. Kai had a passion for teaching and began his career as a statistics professor at Yale. In 1991 he began a 20-year career at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). At the time of his retirement in 2011 Kai was the branch chief of biostatistics at the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development at NIH. In 2011 Kai returned to China and taught for five years at Tsinghua University and later at the United International College. Returning to the United States in 2011, he resided in Rockville, Maryland, where he enjoyed traveling, reading, and interviewing Dartmouth applicants. Kai will be remembered by his professional colleagues and friends as eager to learn new things, always wearing a smile, and patiently reassuring others in their work and activities. He is survived by his wife, Eunice, son Jarvis ’06, daughter Pauline ’08, four siblings, and numerous nieces and nephews, including Christina ’05.