Wenxuan Zhong

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Wenxuan Zhong is a Chinese-American statistician whose research focuses on big data. On the theoretical side, her work has involved feature selection, functional data analysis, and causal inference, with applications to chemical sensor arrays, epigenetics, metagenomics, and neuroimaging. [1] She is UGA Athletic Association Professor in Statistics at the University of Georgia. [2]

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Education and career

Zhong studied statistics as an undergraduate at Nankai University in China. [2] She completed a Ph.D. in 2005 at Purdue University. Her dissertation, Nonparametric Clustering and Model Selection with Application in Bioinformatics, was supervised by Michael Yu Zhu. [3]

After postdoctoral research at Harvard University with Jun S. Liu, she became an assistant professor of statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign in 2007. She moved to her present position at the University of Georgia in 2013, [2] and was named as the UGA Athletic Association Professor in Statistics in 2024. [4]

Recognition

Zhong was named as a Fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2022, "for outstanding contributions to statistical methodology for high-dimensional and complex data in biomedical sciences; for outstanding mentoring of women and junior researchers; and for exemplary service to the profession". [5]

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References

  1. Wenxuan Zhong Lab, University of Georgia, archived from the original on 2022-12-25
  2. 1 2 3 "Wenxuan Zhong", Directory, University of Georgia Department of Statistics, retrieved 2024-04-13
  3. Wenxuan Zhong at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  4. Dr. Wenxuan Zhong named as the UGA Athletic Association Professor in Statistics, University of Georgia Department of Statistics, January 30, 2024, retrieved 2024-04-13
  5. "American Statistical Association Fellows: Wenxuan Zhong", JSM 2022 Awards Book (PDF), American Statistical Association, p. 11, retrieved 2024-04-13