Jianchun Zhang (Jason)

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Education

. Purdue University - West Lafayette, Indiana

Ph.D., Statistics Research topic: Statistical inference with weak

beliefs July 2010 (Expected)

. Purdue University - West Lafayette, Indiana

Msc., Statistics

May

2008

. National University of Singapore

Msc., Statistics Research topic: Adaptive design towards optimal

dose June 2004

. University of Science and Technology of China

Bsc., Statistics

June

2002

Qualification and Skills

. Knowledge of linear and generalized linear models, experimental design,

mixed effect model, multivariate analysis, survival analysis, Bayesian

analysis, machine learning;

. Monte-Carlo simulation, bootstrap, optimization and other statistical

computing techniques;

. Computer skills: R/S+, SAS, Excel, C++, SQL, Perl, Unix and Windows;

. Team work experience on course projects (such as time series with

missing data, ANOVA for sports anemia data) and independent research

experience.

Experience

. Research Assistant, Purdue University, Indiana June

2007-May 2008, May 2009- Current

. Built classifiers of gene expression microarray data for cancer

disease responses in bortezomib clinical trials using mixture model,

logistic regression, etc.

. Analyzed large human genomic single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)

data in genome-wide association study using ANOVA and multiple

testing procedures such as FDR.

. Developed a new framework for direct statistical inference without

using prior distribution as in the case of Bayesian inference. The

resulting inference has desirable frequency properties.

. Proposed model of robust factor analysis using multivariate t-

distribution via EM-type algorithms and Gibbs sampling methods.

. Summer Intern, Bell Labs, Alcatel-Lucent, New Jersey

June 2008-Aug 2008

. Retrieved data using R/MySQL from large database collected from

Radio Network Controller (RNC) of CDMA2000 with the collaboration

of engineers

. Successfully identified potential predictors that may cause wireless

mobile session transfer failure using appropriate tree-based models

and logistic regression models

. Instructor, Purdue University, Indiana

Summer 2006

. Independently taught undergraduate level statistics course

. Responsibilities included lectures, exams preparations, homework

assignments, and computer labs

Publications and Submissions

. Jianchun Zhang and Chuanhai Liu. (2009). Dempster-Shafer inference with

weak beliefs. Statistica Sinica,accepted.

. Ryan Martin, Jianchun Zhang and Chuanhai Liu. (2010). Dempster-Shafer

theory and statistical inference with weak beliefs. Statistical

science. Tentatively accepted.

. Jianchun Zhang, Jia Li and Chuanhai Liu. (2009). Robust factor analysis

using the multivariate t-distribution. Statistica Sinica, submitted.

. Jianchun Zhang, Jun Xie and Chuanhai Liu. (2010). Probabilistic

inference: test and multiple tests. To be submitted.

Awards

. Research Assistantship (Purdue Research Foundation)

. Purdue University Ross Assistantship

Membership and Activities

. Member of Institute of Mathematical Statistics

. Member of American Statistical Association

. Reviewer for Pattern Recognition Letters

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