Short Biography:
Chunming Zhang is a Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. She earned her Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill under the guidance of Jianqing Fan (at Princeton University). Prior to that, she completed her B.S. in Mathematical Statistics at Nankai University in Tianjin, China, and obtained an M.S. in Computational Mathematics from the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, China. With diverse research interests, she explores statistical learning, data mining, methods applied to medical imaging, neuroinformatics, bioinformatics, multiple testing, large-scale simultaneous inference, statistical methods in financial econometrics, non- and semi-parametric estimation and inference, dimension reduction, high-dimensional inference, robust statistics, as well as functional and longitudinal data analysis. Her current research focuses on advancing large-scale structure learning and developing statistical inference procedures applicable across neuroscience, biology, statistical machine learning, and causal inference.
Honors and Awards:
- 2024 IMS Medallion Award and Lecture, Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS). Plenary Lecture at the 11th World Congress in Probability and Statistics, 2024, Germany.
- Elected Fellow (2016) of the American Statistical Association (ASA).
- Keynote Speaker (2016): Presented a 45-minute talk at The Third CiNet (Center for Information and Neural Networks) Conference on "Neural mechanisms of decision making: Achievements
and new directions", February 3-5, 2016, Osaka, Japan.
- Elected Fellow (2011) of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (IMS).
- Focused Research Group Award in the Mathematical Sciences (2004), The U.S. National Science Foundation.
- Teaching Award (1999), Department of Statistics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
- George Nicholson Jr. Fellowship (1995-1996), University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.
Position Held:
- 2010-now: Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- 2005-2010: Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
- July-August 2001: Research Fellow, Australian National University.
- 2000-2005: Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
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