Ji Zhu

Associate Professor of Statistics
and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science

455 West Hall
Department of Statistics
University of Michigan
1085 South University
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1107

Phone: (734)-936-2577
Fax: (734)-763-4676
E-Mail: jizhu@umich.edu
Website: http://www.stat.lsa.umich.edu/~jizhu/

Research Interests

Statistical machine learning, data mining, bioinformatics, statistics in finance and marketing, statistical modeling in engineering and physics

Courses Taught

Statistics 415, Introduction to Data Mining
Statistics 425, Introduction to Probability
Statistics 500, Applied Statistics
Statistics 605, Advanced Topics in Modeling and Data Analysis

Editorial Boards

Statistical Analysis and Data Mining

Education

B.Sc. Physics, Peking University, 1996
M.Sc. Statistics, Stanford University, 2000
Ph.D. Statistics, Stanford University, 2003

Selected Publications

Peng, J., Wang, P., Zhou, N. and Zhu, J. (2009) Partial correlation estimation using joint sparse regression models. Journal of the American Statistical Association 104, 735-746.

Wang, S. and Zhu, J. (2007) Improved centroids estimation for the nearest shrunken centroid classifier. Bioinformatics 23(8), 972-979. (One of four winning papers in the 2007 ASA Student Paper Competition sponsored by the Statistical Computing Section)

Rosset, S. and Zhu, J. (2007) Piecewise linear regularized solution paths. Annals of Statistics 35(3), 1012-1030.

Li, Y., Liu, Y. and Zhu, J. (2007) Quantile regression in reproducing kernel Hilbert spaces. Journal of the American Statistical Association 102(477), 255-268.

Hastie, T., Rosset, S., Tibshirani, R. and Zhu, J. (2004) The entire regularization path for the support vector machine. Journal of Machine Learning Research 5, 1391-1415.

Awards

CAREER Award, National Science Foundation (2008-2013)
Student Paper Competition Award, Computing Section, ASA (2002)
Clark Distinguished Teaching Award, Cornell University (1997)

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