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I graduated from the Department of Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison under the supervision of Professor Grace Wahba. I am now at GlaxoSmithKline.

Reseach Interests:

Penalized Likelihood, Pattern recognition.
Smoothing Spine Models, Kernel Methods.
Statistical genetics and genomics, single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs).
Statistical computing, linear/nonlinear computing.

Education:

Ph.D. in Statistics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, 2008. Advisor: Grace Wahba.
Minor in Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI.
M.S. in Statistics, Unviersity of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison WI, 2007
B.S. in Mathematics, Fudan University, Shanghai, China, 2003

Reseach Experience:

Fall 2004 - Spring 2007 & Fall 2007 - present, Research assistant for Dr. Grace Wahba.

Work Experience:

Summer 2007, Summer Intership, Upper Midwest Environment Sciences Center, U.S. Geological Survey, La Crosse, WI.

Teaching Assistant:

STAT 309, Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, Fall 2003
STAT 312, Introduction to Mathematical Statistics, Spring 2004
STAT 301, Introduction to Statistical Methods, Summer 2004

Publications:

W. Shi, G. Wahba, S. Wright, K. Lee, R. Klein and B. Klein (2008). LASSO-Patternsearch
Algorithm with Application to Ophthalmology and Genomic Data. Statistics and Its Interface, 1(2008) 137-153.
BR. Gray, W. Shi, JT. Rogala, J. Cochran and J. Houser (2007). Cumulative HREP effects
on ecological characteristics of impounded regions of the Upper Mississippi River. Under
review of US Army Corps of Engineers.
W. Shi, K. Lee and G. Wahba (2007). Detecting Disease Causing Genes by LASSOPatternsearch
Algorithm. BMC Proceedings 2007,1(Suppl 1):S60.
W. Shi, G. Wahba, S. Wright, K. Lee, R. Klein and B. Klein (2006). LASSO-Patternsearch
Algorithm with Application to Ophthalmology Data. Proceedings of the ASA Joint
Statistical Meetings.