Peter Z. G. Qian
Associate Professor
Department of Statistics
Affiliated with Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Room 1165, Medical Science Center
1300 University Ave.
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: (608) 262-2537
Fax: (608) 262-0032
Email : peterq@stat.wisc.edu
Founder, Metamodeling Analytics LLC

Education:
Ph.D. Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.
 
Teaching
Fall 2010: Stat 992
Interface between statistics and optimization

Spring 2009: Stat 992
A new song in design of experiments: space-filling designs with diverse applications

Fall 2009: Stat 803
A modern system of design and analysis of experiments


Research Interests
Modeling massive data
Complex system simulations
Uncertainty quantification
Design of experiments
The interface between statistics and optimization
Statistical methods for IT, nanotechnology, energy and other high-tech industries
Experimental design for machine learning and data mining

Awards

1. NSF Career Award (2011).

2. IBM Faculty Award (2008).

Reports
Xiong, S., Dai, B. and Qian, P. Z. G. (2011), Orthogonalizing Penalized Regression.
Xu, X., Hwang, Y., Kim, T., Wang, F., Wang, X. and Qian, P. Z. G. (2011), Sequential Synthesis of Nanomaterials via Level-expansion.

Selected Publications

14. Qian, P. Z. G. (2012), Sliced Latin Hypercube Designs. Journal of the American Statistical Association. to appear.

13. Haaland, B. and Qian, P. Z. G. (2011), Accurate Emulators for Large-Scale Computer Experiments. Annals of Statistics, 39, 2974-3002.

12. Zhou, Q., Qian, P. Z. G. and Zhou, S (2011), A Simple Approach to Emulation for Computer Models With Qualitative and Quantitative Factors, Technometrics, 53, 266-273.

11. Xu, X., Haaland, B. and Qian, P. Z. G. (2011), Sudoku-based space-filling designs, Biometrika, 98, 711-720.

10. He, X. and Qian, P. Z. G. (2011), Nested orthogonal array based Latin hypercube designs, Biometrika, 98, 721-731.

9. Tang, Q. and Qian, P. Z. G. (2010), ``Enhancing the Sample Average Approximation Method with U Designs,''Biometrika, 97, 947-960.

8. Haaland, B., Min, W., Qian, P. Z. G. and Amemiya, Y. (2010), ``A Statistical Approach to Thermal Management of Data Centers under Steady State and System Perturbations,''Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105, 1030-1041.

7. Qian, P. Z. G. and Ai, M. (2010),``Nested Lattice Sampling: A New Sampling Scheme Derived by Randomizing Nested Orthogonal Arrays,''Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105, 1147-1155.

6. Haaland, B. and Qian, P. Z. G. (2010), ''An Approach to Constructing Nested Space-Filling Designs for Multi-Fidelity Computer Experiments,''Statistica Sinica, 20, 1063-1075.

5. Wang, F., Hwang, Y., Qian, P. Z. G. and Wang, X. (2010), ``A Statistics-Guided Approach to Precise Characterization of Nanowire Morphology,'' American Chemical Society Nano , 4, 855-862.

4. Qian, P. Z. G. and Wu, C. F. J. (2009), “Sliced Space-Filling Designs,” Biometrika, 96, 945-956.

3. Qian, P. Z. G.(2009), “Nested Latin Hypercube Designs,”Biometrika, 96, 957-970.

2. Qian, P. Z. G., Ai, M. and Wu, C. F. J. (2009), “Construction of Nested Space-Filling Designs,”Annals of Statistics, 37, 3616-43.

1. Qian, P. Z. G., Tang, B. and Wu, C. F. J. (2009), “Nested Space-Filling Designs for Experiments with Two Levels of Accuracy,” Statistica Sinica, 19, 287-300.


Acknowledgement: Research is supported by NSF Grants DMS 1055214, CMMI 0969616 and DMS 0705206, an IBM Faculty Award and WARF.

PhD Students
Ben Haaland (2006-2010), now assistant professor at National University of Singapore
Jun Li (2007- 2010 August), now with a consulting firm in California
YoungDeok Hwang (2008- present)
Xu Xu (2009 - present)
Qiong Zhang (2010 - present)
Jiajie Chen (2010 - present)
Yan Chen (2011 - present)

Undergraduate Scholars
Likun Cui (2008-2009), now graduate student at UC-Berkeley
Heng Su (2009-2010), now graduate student at Georgia Tech
Qi Yi Jiang (2010-present)
Qihang Huang (2010-present)