Zhigen Zhao

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Zhigen Zhao

  • Fox School of Business and Management

    • Statistics, Operations, and Data Science

      • Associate Professor

Biography

Zhigen Zhao graduated from Cornell University in 2009. Dr. Zhao's research interests include Bayesian/empirical Bayesian statistics, high dimensional data analysis, multiple comparison, bioinformatics, selective confidence intervals. Dr. Zhao has published papers in top tier journals, such as Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, Journal of the American Statistical Association. Dr Zhao’s current research is supported by national science foundation.

Research Interests

  • Bayes/empirical Bayesian statistics
  • Multiple comparison
  • bioinformatics
  • High dimensional statistical inference

Courses Taught

Number

Name

Level

STAT 8112

Statistical Methods for Business Research I

Graduate

STAT 8113

Statistical Methods for Business Research II

Graduate

Selected Publications

Recent

  • Zhao, Z. On F-modelling based Empiricial Bayes Estimation of Variances.

  • Zhao, Z. BEAUTY powered BEAST.

  • Zhao, Z., Lin, Q., & Liu, J. (2022). Global testing under the sparse alternatives for single index models. In Festschrift in Honor of R. Dennis Cook Fifty Years of Contribution to Statistical Science. Springer Nature.

  • Zhao, Z. (2021). Where to find needles in a haystack? Test. doi: 10.1007/s11749-021-00775-x.

  • Zhao, Z. Controlling false discovery rate using gaussian mirrors.

  • Lin, Q., Zhao, Z., & Liu, J. (2019). Sparse Sliced Inverse Regression via Lasso. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 114(528), 1726-1739. doi: 10.1080/01621459.2018.1520115.

  • Zhang, J., Zhao, Z., Zhang, K., & Wei, Z. (2019). A feature sampling strategy for analysis of high dimensional genomic data. IEEE/ACM transactions on computational biology and bioinformatics, 16, 434-441. IEEE.

  • Zhao, Z. (2022). Global testing under the sparse alternatives for single index models.

  • Zhao, Z. Global testing under the sparse alternatives for single index models.

  • Zhao, Z. Global testing under the sparse alternatives for single index models.

  • Zhao, Z. Group Assisted Multiple Testing.

  • Zhang, H., Aken, B.V., Xoang, L., Abboud, B.E., Zhao, Z., Faheem, A., & Mckenzie, E.R. (2018). Winter Roadway Maintenance Material Enhancers (Field) Evaluation. Winter Roadway Maintenance Material Enhancers (Field) Evaluation. Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Transportation. Retrieved from https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/36037.

  • Lin, Q., Zhao, Z., & Liu, J. (2018). On consistency and sparsity for sliced inverse regression in high dimensions. Annals of Statistics, 46(2), 580-610. doi: 10.1214/17-AOS1561.

  • Anis, M., Krynetskaia, N., Zhao, Z., Krynetskiy, E., & Soliman, A. (2018). Determining Candidate Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms in Acquired Laryngotracheal Stenosis. Laryngoscope, 128(3), E111-E116. doi: 10.1002/lary.26981.

  • Sarkar, S. & Zhao, Z. (2017). New Approaches to Multiple Testing of Grouped Hypotheses.

  • Ni, H., Qin, J., Zhou, L., Zhao, Z., Wang, J., & Hou, F. (2017). Network analysis in detection of early-stage mild cognitive impairment. Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and Its Applications, 478, 113-119. doi: 10.1016/j.physa.2017.02.044.

  • Chang, Y., Tsong, Y., & Zhao, Z. (2017). Sample size determination for a three-arm equivalence trial of Poisson and negative binomial responses. Journal of Biopharmaceutical Statistics, 27(2), 239-256. doi: 10.1080/10543406.2016.1269787.

  • Zhao, Z. (2022). Nonparametric Empirical Bayes Estimator For Simultaneous Variances.