Linda Hong Zhao is a Chinese-American statistician. She is a Professor of Statistics and at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a Fellow of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Zhao specializes in modern machine learning methods.
Linda Zhao | |
|---|---|
 Linda Zhao | |
| Alma mater | |
| Spouse | Lawrence D. Brown |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | |
| Thesis | Frequentist and Bayesian aspects of some nonparametric estimation problems (1993) |
| Doctoral advisor | Lawrence D. Brown |
Early life and education edit
In 1982, Zhao obtained her Bachelor of Science from the Department of Mathematics at Nankai University. She later emigrated to the United States and attended Cornell University, where she obtained her Ph.D from the Department of Statistics in 1993.[1]
Career edit
Zhao became an assistant professor statistics at University of California, Los Angeles in 1993,[2] before joining the Wharton School in 1994, where she is currently a Professor of Statistics.[3]
Her specialty falls in modern machine learning methods, replicability in science, high dimensional data, housing price prediction, and Bayesian methods.[2] Current projects include equity ownership network, and its relationship to firm performance and innovation activities; identify signals from noisy data using non-parametric Bayesian scheme; and model-free data analysis.[4] Her work has won National Science Foundation support for over 20 years.[5]
Personal life edit
Zhao was married to Lawrence D. Brown (1940–2018), a fellow statistician at the Wharton School.[6][7]
Honors and awards edit
- Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2017[8]
Selected publications edit
- Zhao, L. H. (2000) Bayesian aspects of some nonparametric problems, The Annals of Statistics, 28, 532–552. doi:10.1214/aos/1016218229
- Mao, V. and Zhao, L. H. (2003) Free knot polynomial splines with confidence intervals, Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 65, 901-919. doi:10.1046/j.1369-7412.2003.00422.x
- Berk, R., Brown, L.B. and Zhao, L. (2010) Statistical inference after model selection, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, 26, 217-236 doi:10.1007/s10940-009-9077-7
- Nagaraja, C. H., Brown, L.D. and Zhao, L. (2010) An autoregressive approach to house price modeling, to appear The Annals of Applied Statistics. doi:10.1214/10-AOAS380
References edit
- ^ "Biography of Linda H. Zhao". www.whartonbeijing09.com. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
- ^ a b "Linda Zhao". Statistics Department. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
- ^ George, Edward I.; Krieger, Abba M.; Morrison, Donald F.; Shaman, Paul (2012), "University of Pennsylvania Department of Statistics", in Agresti, Alan; Meng, Xiao-Li (eds.), Strength in Numbers: The Rising of Academic Statistics Departments in the U. S., New York, NY: Springer, p. 474, doi:10.1007/978-1-4614-3649-2_34, ISBN 978-1-4614-3648-5
- ^ "Welcome to Linda Zhao's homepage !". www-stat.wharton.upenn.edu. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
- ^ "NSF Award Search: Award#1512084 - Valid Inference when Analytical Models are Approximations". www.nsf.gov. Retrieved 2020-06-09.
- ^ Berger, James; Cai, Tony; Johnstone, Iain (2018-05-15). "Obituary: Lawrence Brown, 1940–2018". Institute of Mathematical Statistics. Retrieved 2020-06-10.
- ^ Brown, Larry; DasGupta, Anirban (2005). "A Conversation with Larry Brown". Statistical Science. 20 (2): 199. ISSN 0883-4237. JSTOR 20061170.
- ^ "Institute of Mathematical Statistics | 2017 IMS Fellows". Retrieved 2020-06-09.