Ji Zhu Associate Professor Department of Statistics University of Michigan E-mail: jizhu at umich dot edu Phone: (734) 936-2577 Fax: (734) 763-4674 Office: 455 West Hall

Employment

• 2008 - Present: Associate Professor (with tenure), Department of Statistics, University of Michigan
• 2003 - 2008: Assistant Professor (tenure track), Department of Statistics, University of Michigan

Education

• 1998 - 2003: PhD in Statistics, Stanford University. Advisor: Trevor Hastie
• 1996 - 1998: PhD student in Physics, Cornell University
• 1992 - 1996: BSc in Physics, Peking University

Research Interests

• Statistical machine learning and data mining
• High-dimensional data analysis
• Bioinformatics
• Statistics in natural science and engineering

Honors and Awards

• 2008-2013 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
• 2002 Student Paper Competition Award, Computing Section, American Statistical Association
• 1998-2001 Kimball Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University

Teaching

• Stats 500 Applied Statistics - Fall 2009

• FinEng 508 Statistical Methods in Finance - Fall 2009

Publications

PhD Students