Chunming Zhang

    Professor of Statistics


Education

Position Held

  • 2010-now: Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • 2005-2010: Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
  • 2000-2005: Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Editorial Boards

  • Associate Editor for Annals of Statistics (2007-2009; 2019-2021);
  • Associate Editor for Journal of the American Statistical Association (2011-2013; 2014-2017; 2023-);
  • Associate Editor for Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference (2012-2018);
  • Associate Editor for Journal of Data Science (2020-);
  • Associate Editor for The New England Journal of Statistics in Data Science (2020-)
  • Guest Associate Editor for Statistica Sinica (2005)

Other Professional Service

  • Chair of the ICSA Award Committee (2022), International Chinese Statistical Association.
  • Chair-Elect (2022) and Chair (2023), Section on Nonparametric Statistics, American Statistical Association.
  • Program Co-Chair of the Scientific Committee for the 2019 IMS-China International Conference on Statistics and Probability, July 6-10, 2019, Dalian, China.
  • Program Chair-Elect (2014) and Program Chair (2015), Section on Nonparametric Statistics, American Statistical Association.
  • Charting Committee of International Society for NonParametric Statistics (2012-2015).
  • Board of Directors of the International Chinese Statistical Association (2009-2011).
  • Committee on Nominations (August 2009-August 2010), Institute of Mathematical Statistics.

Research Interests

  • Medical imaging data analysis;
  • Statistical methods for neuroinformatics and bioinformatics;
  • Multiple testing; large-scale simultaneous inference and applications;
  • Statistical methods for financial econometrics;
  • Dimension reduction and high-dimensional inference;
  • Non- and semi-parametric modeling & inference;
  • Robust statistics;
  • Functional & longitudinal data analysis;
  • Traffic forecasting in transportation

Selected Publications

Students and collaborators

Teaching: STAT-609 (Fall 2023; Fall 2024); STAT-351 (Spring 2024)

  • STAT-351 (Introductory Nonparametric Statistics).
  • STAT-609 (Mathematical Statistics I).
  • STAT-610 (Mathematical Statistics II).
  • STAT-732 (Large Sample Theory of Statistical Inference)
  • STAT-809 (Non-Parametric Statistics).

 
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