Biography:Hao Helen Zhang
Hao Helen Zhang | |
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| Nationality | Chinese |
| Alma mater | Peking University University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | Statistics |
| Institutions | North Carolina State University University of Arizona |
Hao Helen Zhang is a Chinese statistician. She is a professor at the University of Arizona, in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics Interdisciplinary Program, and Applied Mathematics Interdisciplinary Program there.[1] With Bertrand Clarke and Ernest Fokoué, she is the author of the book Principles and Theory for Data Mining and Machine Learning.[2]
Zhang earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1996 from Peking University. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 2002 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1] Her dissertation, supervised by Grace Wahba, was Nonparametric Variable Selection and Model Building Via Likelihood Basis Pursuit.[3] She joined the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University in 2002, and moved to Arizona in 2011.[1]
Zhang was elected to the International Statistical Institute and as a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2015. She became a fellow in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2016, and has been selected as the 2019 Medallion Lecturer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[1]
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Curriculum vitae, http://math.arizona.edu/~hzhang/PubCV_2017Sep.pdf, retrieved 2017-11-05
- ↑ Reviews of Principles and Theory for Data Mining and Machine Learning: Liliana López Kleine (June 2010), Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series A: Statistics in Society 173 (3): 691–692, doi:10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00646_3.x; Jeongyoun Ahn (March 2011), Journal of the American Statistical Association 106 (493): 379–380, JSTOR 41415566; John H. Maindonald (April 2011), International Statistical Review 79 (1): 119–120, doi:10.1111/j.1751-5823.2011.00134_6.x.
- ↑ Hao Helen Zhang at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
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