Peter Z. G.  Qian

Assistant Professor

Department of Statistics

University of Wisconsin-Madison

Medical Science Center

1300 University Ave.

Madison, WI 53706

Phone: (608)262-2537

Email : peterq@stat.wisc.edu

Education:

Ph.D. Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology, 2006.

 

Research Interests:

Design, Modeling and Analysis of Experiments

Development, Assessment and Utilization of Complex Computer Models

Optimization under Uncertainty

Latent Variable Modeling

Statistics in Engineering and Services

Selected Publications:

7.  Qian, P., Wu, H. and Wu, C. F. J. (2008), “Gaussian Process Models for Computer Experiments with Qualitative and Quantitative Factors,  Technometrics, 50.

 

6. Qian, P. and Wu, C. F. J. (2008), “Bayesian Hierarchical Modeling for Integrating Low-accuracy and High-accuracy Experiments,” Technometrics, 50, 192-204.

 

5.  Mukerjee, R., Qian, P. and Wu, C. F. J. (2008), “On the Existence of Nested Orthogonal Arrays,” Discrete Mathematics, to appear. 

 

4. Qian, P., Tang, B. and Wu, C. F. J. (2008), “Nested Space-Filling Designs for Experiments with Two Levels of Accuracy,” Statistica Sinica, to appear.

 

3. Qian, Z., Seepersad, C., Joseph, R., Allen, J. and Wu, C. F. J. (2006), “Building Surrogate Models with Detailed and Approximate Simulations,” ASME Journal of Mechanical Design, 128, 668-677.

2. Qian, Z., Jiang, W. and Tsui, K. (2006), “Churn Detection via Customer Profile Modeling,” International Journal of Production Research, 44, 2913-2933.

1. Qian, Z. and Shapiro, A. (2006), “Simulation-based Approach for Estimation in Latent Variable Models,” Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 51, 1243-1259.

Submitted Papers:

  • Nested Latin Hypercube Designs. 
  • Sliced Space-Filling Designs, with C. F. Jeff Wu. 
  • Construction of Nested Space-Filling Designs, with M. Ai and C. F. Jeff Wu.   

 

Awards and Honors

 

2008 IBM Faculty Award.

 

The QSR Best Student Paper Award (2005) at the INFORMS Annual Meeting in San Francisco.

 

John Morris Fellowship, Georgia Institute of Technology (2003).