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Xinwei Deng

Visiting Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1300 University Avenue
Madison, WI 53706
Phone: 608-265-3990
Email: xdeng"at"stat.wisc.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

  • Interface between design of experiments and machine learning
  • Model and analysis of high-dimensional data
  • Covariance matrix estimation and its applications
  • Statistical methods to Nanotechnology
  • Statistical modeling with applications in financial services
  • Publications and Reports

  • Deng, X., Yuan, M. and Sudjianto A. (2007), A Note on Robust Kernel Principal Component Analysis, Contemporary Mathematics, 433, 21-33.pdf
  • Deng, X., Joseph, V. R., Sudjianto A. and Wu, C. F. J. (2009), Active Learning via Sequential Design with Applications to Detection of Money Laundering, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 104(487), 969-981.pdf
  • Deng, X., and Yuan, M. (2009), Large Gaussian Covariance Matrix Estimation with Markov Structure, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 18(3), 640-657.pdf
  • Deng, X., Joseph V. R., Mai, W., Wang, Z. L. and Wu, C. F. J. (2009), A Statistical Approach to Quantifying the Elastic Deformation of Nanomaterials, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 106(29), 11845-11850.pdf
  • Mai, W., and Deng, X. (2010). Applications of Statistical Quantification Techniques in Nanomechanics and Nanoelectronics, Nanotechnology, 21(40), 405704.pdf
  • Shao, J., Wang, Y., Deng, X., and Wang, S. (2010). Sparse Linear Discriminant Analysis by Thresholding for High Dimensional Data, Annals of Statistics, to appear.pdf
  • Shao, J., and Deng, X. (2010). Estimation in High-Dimensional Linear Models with Deterministic Covariates, submitted to Annals of Statistics.
  • Deng, X., and Qian, P. Z. G. (2010). Sliced Cross-validation for Efficient Estimation of the Error Rate of a Classification Rule, submitted to Technometrics.
  • Deng, X., Lin, C. D., and Qian, P. Z. G. (2010). Designs for the Lasso, submitted to Technometrics.
  • Deng X., and Tsui, K. W. (2010). Penalized Covariance Matrix Estimation using a Matrix-Logarithm Transformation, submitted to Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics.
  • In Preparation

  • Deng, X., and Yuan, M. (2010), Factor Logit-Models with a Large Number of Categories, in preparation.
  • Deng, X., and Yuan, M. (2010). Sparse Linear Discriminant Analysis for Multi-categorical Classification, in preparation.
  • Teaching

  • Stat 301: Introduction to Statistical Methods, Fall 2009, Spring 2010, Fall 2010
  • Stat 301: Introduction to Statistical Methods, Spring 2011