Chunming Zhang

Associate Professor of Statistics

Education

• PhD (2000), statistics, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
• MS, computational mathematics, Academia Sinica, Beijing, China
• BS, mathematical statistics, Nankai University, Tianjin, China

Position Held

• 08/2005-Current: Associate Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
• 08/2000-08/2005: Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Editorial Board

• Associate Editor for Annals of Statistics (2007-)

Research Interests

• Neuroinformatics and bioinformatics
• Machine learning & data mining
• Statistical methods in financial econometrics
• Non- and semi-parametric estimation & inference
• Functional & longitudinal data analysis
• Traffic forecasting in transportation

Selected Publications

• Zhang, C.M. and Yu, T. (2008). "Semiparametric detection of significant activation for brain fMRI". The Annals of Statistics, 36, 1693-1725.
• Hall, P., Minnotte, M.C., and Zhang, C.M. (2004). "Bump hunting with non-Gaussian kernels". The Annals of Statistics, 32, 2124-2141.
• Zhang, C.M. (2003). "Calibrating the degrees of freedom for automatic data smoothing and effective curve checking". Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98, 609-628.
• Fan, J. and Zhang, C.M. (2003). "A reexamination of diffusion estimators with applications to financial model validation". Journal of the American Statistical Association, 98, 118-134.
• Fan, J., Zhang, C.M., and Zhang, J. (2001). "Generalized likelihood ratio statistics and Wilks phenomenon". The Annals of Statistics, 29, 153-193. (correction, 2002, 30, 1811-1811.)

Student Collaborators

Teaching, Learn@UW, Classlist Utility

• STAT-609 (Mathematical Statistics I).
• STAT-610 (Mathematical Statistics II).
• STAT-809 (Non-Parametric Statistics).