Employment

• 2003 - Present: Assistant Professor, 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 learning and data mining, including boosting, kernel methods, classification and clustering, high-dimensional data and variable selection
• Bioinformatics
• Statistics in finance and marketing
• Statistical modeling in engineering and natural sciences

Contact Information

• E-mail: jizhu at umich dot edu
• Phone: (734) 936-2577
• Office: 445C West Hall