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Yichuan
Zhao
Assistant Professor
Department of Mathematics & Statistics
Georgia State University
Atlanta, GA 30303
Phone: (404) 654-5877
email: [email protected]
Education
Ph.D in Statistics, Florida State University, 2002, GPA 4.0.
M. S. in Statistics, Florida State University, 1999, GPA 4.0.
M. S. in Stochastics and Operations Research, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands, 1997.
M. S. in Applied Mathematics, Peking University, 1991.
B. S. in Mathematics, Peking University, 1987.
Grants
Graduate Student Fellowship Grant, Brain and Behaviors Program, Georgia State University, 2005—
2006.
NSF funded Full Support to the Seventh North American New Research Conference, Toronto, August,
2004
NSF funded Travel Award to the Second Erich L. Lehmann Symposium, Rice University, May, 2004
NSF funded Travel Support to UF Winter Workshop: Data Mining, Statistical Learning, and
Bioinformatics, University of Florida, January, 2004.
NSF funded Travel Support to the AMS-IMS-SIAM Summer Research Conference: Machine Learning,
Statistics, and Discovery, Snowbird, Utah, June 2003.
NSF funded Travel Award for the International Conference on Reliability and Survival Analysis
(ICRSA2003), University of South Carolina., 2003
NSF funded Travel Support to UF Winter Workshop: An IMS Mini-Meeting on Functional Data Analysis,
University of Florida, 2003.
Dissertation Research Grant, Florida State University, 2001--2002.
Honors and Awards
New Researcher Travel Award to UF Winter Workshop: Longitudinal Data Analysis, University of
Florida, January, 2005
Academic Keys Who's Who in Sciences Higher Education (WWSHE), 2004
Laha Travel Award at the IMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, 2003
Ralph A. Bradley Award, Department of Statistics, Florida State University, 2002
R. L. Anderson Student Paper Award and Travel Award, Summer Research Conference in Statistics,
SRCOS/ASA, 2002
Student Research Paper Award and Travel Fellowship in International Chinese Statistical Association
Applied Statistics Symposium, 2002.
Travel Award to UF Winter Workshop: An IMS Mini-Meeting on Imaging, Classification and Clustering,
University of Florida, 2002.
Student Research Paper Award and Travel Fellowship in International Chinese Statistical Association
Applied Statistics Symposium, 2001.
Student Research Paper Award in Florida Chapter of American Statistical Association, 2001.
Travel Award to UF Winter Workshop: Monte Carlo in the New Millennium, University of Florida, 2001.
Travel Award to Symposium on Inference for Stochastic Process in University of Georgia, 2000.
Member of the Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, Florida State University, 1999.
Best First Year Student of Theoretical Statistics, Department of Statistics, Florida State University, 1998.
Full Fellowship from NUFFIC (the Netherlands Organization for International Cooperation
in Higher Education), Mathematical Research Institute, University of Utrecht, 1996--1997.
Scholarship and Honor Title, Peking University, 1983--1985.
Recent Research Interests
Nonparametric statistics, Biostatistics, survival analysis, reliability theory, operations research,
empirical likelihood method, statistical computing, vaccine efficacy estimation, statistical data analysis,
Bioinformatics, microarray data analysis, statistical modeling for fuzzy system, reliability theory
Recent Publications
A note on empirical likelihood inference of residual life regression, submitted for publication, 2004 (with
Y. Q. Chen).
Comparing distribution functions via empirical likelihood, International Journal of Biostatistics, 2005,
article 5, 1—18 (with I. W. McKeague).
Weighted Empirical Likelihood Estimates and Their Robustness Properties, submitted for publication,
2005 (with N. Glenn).
Statistical interval-valued fuzzy systems, submitted to IEEE Transaction on Fuzzy System, 2005 (with Y.
Qiu, H. Yang, Y.Q. Zhang).
Inference for the mean residual life function via empirical likelihood, Communications in Statistics—
Theory and Methods, accepted, 2005 (with G. Qin).
Empirical likelihood inference for the mean residual life under random censorship, submitted for
publication, 2004 (with G. Qin).
Simultaneous confidence band for a functional of cumulative hazard functions, submitted for publication,
2005 (with G. Qin).
Granular SVM-RFE feature selection algorithm for reliable cancer-related gene subsets extraction on
microarray gene expression data, Special Issue on Bioinformatics, Pattern Recognition, 2005, accepted
(with Y.C. Tang, Y.-Q. Zhang, Z. Huang, X. Tony Hu).
Empirical likelihood estimation for median regression model via MIP, Proceedings of the American
Statistical Association, Nonparametric Statistics Section, 2005, CD-ROM (with F. Chen).
Regression analysis for long-term survival rate via empirical likelihood, Journal of Nonparametric
Statistics, 17, 995—1007, 2005.
Inference for the mixed discrete and continuous Cox regression model via empirical likelihood, Advances
and Applications in Statistics, 5, 145—157, 2005 (with Z. Xu).
Empirical likelihood Inference for the additive-multiplicative hazard model, Far East Journal of
Theoretical Statistics, 16, 105—-112, 2005 (with Z. Xu).
Statistical interval-valued fuzzy systems via linear regression, Proc. of IEEE-GrC 2005, pp. 229-232,
Beijing, July 25-27, 2005 (with Y. Qiu, Y. Q. Zhang).
Width-scaled confidence bands for survival functions, submitted for publication, Statistics and
Probability Letters, 2005, in press (with I. W. McKeague)
Semiparametric analysis for additive risk model via empirical likelihood, in press,
Statistics--Simulation and Computation, 34, 135—143, 2005 (with Y. S. Hsu)
Communications in
Statistical analysis of general additive--multiplicative hazard model and mixed discrete--continuous Cox
regression model via empirical likelihood, Proceedings of the American Statistical Association,
Biopharmaceutical Section, 938—942, 2004 (with Z. Xu).
Statistical inference of semiparametric additive risk model, Proceedings of the American Statistical
Association, Biometric Section, 566—570, 2004 (with Y.S. Hsu).
Simultaneous inference for ratios of survival functions via empirical likelihood, Statistics and Probability
Letters, 60, 405-415 (2002) (with I. W. McKeague).
Comparison of survival functions via empirical likelihood, Proceedings of the American Statistical
Association, Biometrics Section, 3955--3958, 2002 (with I. W. McKeague).
Empirical likelihood methods for comparison of survival functions, Dissertation, Florida State University,
2002.
Blocking probability in a shared resource environment, Thesis, University of Utrecht, the Netherlands,
1997.
Construction of Brown motion on manifold, Thesis, Peking University, 1991.
Referee for
Annals of Statistics, Statistica Sinica, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Journal of Statistical
Planning and Inference, Statistics and Probability Letters, International Journal of Bioinformatics
Research and Applications, IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, 2006.
Book Chapter
Guide to the Course of Probability and Mathematical Statistics (Chinese), published in
University of Electronic Science and Technology of China, P.R. China, 1996.
Presentations
Twelfth International Conference of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics on Statistics,
Combinatorics, Mathematics and Applications, Auburn University, December, 2005 (with Wen
Jian).Forum for
Twelfth International Conference of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics on Statistics,
Combinatorics, Mathematics and Applications, Auburn University, December, 2005..(((he Forum for
The Second SECABC Fall Workshop on Biocomputing, Georgia State University, October, 2005.
Mathematics on
Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, August 2005.
Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, August 2005 (with Ellen Bishop).
IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Beijing, 2005 (with Y. Qiu, Y.-Q. Zhang).
ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, June 2005.
Summer Research Conference in Statistics, SRCOS/ASA, June, 2005 (with Ellen Bishop)
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of South Alabama, March, 2005.
University of Florida Seventh Annual Winter Workshop: Longitudinal Data Analysis, January, 2005.
Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Toronto, August 2004.
Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, Toronto, August 2004 (with Z. Xu).
The Seventh North American New Research Conference, Toronto, August, 2004.
School of Mathematics, Sichuan University, P.R. C., July, 2004.
International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS04) Beijing, July, 2004.
The Second Erich L. Lehmann Symposium, Rice University, May, 2004.
Fifth Biennial International Conference on Statistics, Probability and Related Areas,
University of Georgia, May, 2004.
Statistics Department, University of Georgia, April, 2004.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Charlotte, March, 2004.
University of Florida Sixth Annual Winter Workshop Data Mining, Statistical Learning, and
Bioinformatics, January, 2004.
Department of Biostatistics, Emory University, October 2003.
Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, August 2003.
International Conference on Reliability and Survival Analysis, University of South Carolina, May 2003.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Analysis Seminar, Georgia State University, April 2003.
School of Mathematics, Georgia Institute of Technology, March 2003.
Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, August 2002.
Department of Biostatistics, Novartis Pharmaceuticals, June 2002.
ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, June 2002.
Summer Research Conference in Statistics, SRCOS/ASA, June 2002.
Frontier Science and Technology Research Foundation, Harvard Medical School, June 2002.
Department of Mathematics and Statistics, George State University, May 2002.
Spring Research Conference on Statistics in Industry and Technology, May 2002.
Department of Mathematics, Marshall University, May 2002.
Department of Statistics and Actuarial Science, University of Waterloo, May 2002.
Department of Preventive Medicine & Epidemiology, Loyola University Chicago, May 2002.
Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics,
University of South Carolina, April 2002.
Department of Statistics, Florida State University, April 2002.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institute of Health, April 2002.
Statistics Department, Kansas State University, March 2002.
Division of Biostatistics, Mayo Clinic, March 2002.
Mathematics and Statistics Department, University of Nebraska--Lincolin, March 2002.
Statistics Department, Western Michigan University, February 2002.
Florida Chapter of the American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, February 2002.
Mathematics Department, University of Toledo, February 2002.
Division of Biostatistics, School of Medicine, Washington University, St. Louis, February 2002.
Statistics Department, University of British Columbia, January 2002.
Annual Meeting of the American Statistical Association, August 2001.
ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, June 2001.
Statistics Department, Florida State University, April 2001.
Florida Chapter of the American Statistical Association Annual Meeting, February 2001.
Teaching Experience
Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics & Statistics, Georgia State University, 2002 --- now.
Teaching Assistant, Florida State University, 1997 --- 2002.
Full-time Instructor, University of Electronic Science & Technology of China, 1991 --- 1996.
Courses include Fundamental Business Statistics, Linear Algebra, Probability & Mathematical Statistics,
Elementary Statistics, Introduction to Statistical Methods, Monte Carlo Methods, Regression Methods
and Variance Analysis, Biostatistics, Survival Analysis.
M.S. Students Supervised
Z. Xu (Summer, 2004), E. Bishop (Spring, 2005)
Current Student Advisement
6 M.S. Students (Tat Nguyen, Omar Mbowe, Yue Zhou, Wen Jian, Kenita Hall, and Min Lu)
MS and Ph.D. Committee
MS Thesis Committee for Linhui Tian, Fall, 2003
MS Thesis Committee for Usha Venkateswaran, November, 2004
MS Thesis Committee for Lejla Hotilovac, April, 2005
MS Thesis Committee for Lara Depadilla, April, 2005
MS Thesis Committee for Ang Gao, May, 2005
MS Thesis Committee for Eun-Kyung Cha, July, 2005
MS Thesis Committee for Baofu Ma, June, 2005
MS Thesis Committee for Yong Zhang, July, 2005
MS Thesis Committee for Saurav Karmakar, July, 2005
MS non-Thesis exam committee for Jin Fan, July, 2005
Ph. D. Dissertation Proposal Committee for Yuchun Tang, April, 2005
Ph. D. Dissertation Proposal Committee for Hui Liu, May, 2005
Ph. D. Dissertation Proposal Committee for
Ph. D. Dissertation Proposal Committee for
Ph. D. Dissertation Defense Committee for
Ph. D. Dissertation Defense Committee for
Fuhua Jiang, November, 2005
Bo Jin, December, 2005
Hui Liu, August, 2005
Yuchun Tang, December, 2005
Consulting Experience
Consultant for Florida Department of Law Enforcement, May 1999--December 1999.
Assessment and Improvement for the Alcohol Testing Program of Florida Department of Law
Enforcement, Submitted to Florida Department of Law Enforcement, 1999 (with D. Zahn, H. Temkit and
W. Yan).
Supervising Consulting in the Statistical Consulting Center of Statistics Department, Florida State
University, January 2001--May 2001.
Computing Skills
C, FORTRAN, SAS, S-Plus, Matlab, Maple, Mathematica.
UNIX, Windows, Macintosh Systems.
HTML, Latex, Minitab, SPSS. MATLAB
Professional Societies
Member of Biometrics Section, the American Statistical Association, 2002---now.
Member of International Chinese Statistical Association, 2001---now.
Member of Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 1999---now.
Member of the American Statistical Association, 1999---now.
Community Service
Program Committee Member, IEEE International Conference on Granular Computing, Atlanta, 2006.
Organize and chair an invited session Semiparametric Techniques in Survival Analysis, Twelfth
International Conference of the Forum for Interdisciplinary Mathematics on Statistics, Combinatorics,
Mathematics and Applications, Auburn University, December, 2005.The
Chair a session of ASA Nonparametric Statistics Section, JSM, 2003.
Statistics Graduate Committee, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University ,
2005.
Bioinformatics Faculty Recruiting Committee, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State
University, 2005—now.
Honors and Graduation Committee, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University,
Spring, 2004—Summer, 2004.
Faculty Recruiting Committee, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University,
2003—now.
Advisor for Advisement Committee, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University,
2004---now.
Statistics Committee, Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Georgia State University, 2002---2004.
Student Advisory Committee, Department of Statistics, Florida State University, 2001--2002.