Assistant University

Xiongzhi Chen

Ph.D. Candidate Cell Phone: 1-765-***-****

Department of Statistics E-mail: *******@******.***

Purdue University http://www.stat.purdue.edu/ chen418

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West Lafayette, IN 47907-2067

Objective To develop statistical methodologies and theories for modeling and inference.

Interests Statistics: Large-scale multiple testing, variable/model selection, random

matrix theory;

Mathematics: Stochastic differential equations, their statistical inference and

applications in

mathematical finance.

Education Ph.D. in Statistics (expected in December 2012). Purdue University, West

Lafayette, Indiana.

M.A. in Mathematics (May 2009) University of Hawaii, Honolulu, Hawaii.

M.S. in Mathematics (May 2006) Sichuan University, Chengdu, China.

Experience

Research/Consulting

Research Assistant: For ProfessorR.W. Doerge, Purdue University (June 2012 - present

)

- Developing non-permutation based multiple testing methods for high-dimensional

dependent data.

Research Assistant: For ProfessorR.W. Doerge, Purdue University (January 2012 - May

2012)

- Processing and integrated statistical analysis of SNP, mRNA,and miRNA data

generated from various platforms.

Consultant: Statistical Consulting Service, Purdue University (August 2010 - December

2011)

- Assisting members of Purdue's academic community with statistical design, data

analysis,

and software issues for their research.

Research Assistant: For Professor Dabao Zhang, Purdue University (January 2010 - August

2010)

- Contributing to methodologies in estimating distribution of extreme values.

- Contributing to development of generalized cross-validation to penalized orthogonal-

component

regression.

Teaching

Teaching Assistant: Purdue University, Department of Statistics (August 2009 - December

2009)

-Courses: Elementary Statistical Methods (STAT 301), Statistics and Society (STAT 113).

- Co-leading lab sessions; teaching recitations, writing and grading quizzes, homework,

and exams.

Adjunct Teacher: Transpacific Hawaii Collage (July 2008 - September 2008)

-Course: Elementary Statistics (MATH 200).

- Teaching the course; writing and grading homework, quizzes and exams.

Teaching Assistant: University of Hawaii, Department of Mathematics (August 2007 - May

2009)

-Courses: Applied Calculus (MATH 215, MATH 216).

- Leading lab sessions where students used Derive to practice techniques of calculus

covered in lecture.

- Teaching recitation sessions; grading homework, quizzes and exams.

Coursework Available upon request

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Computing Software: LT X, Matlab, Mathematica, Perl, R, SAS, SPSS

E

Operating Systems: Windows, Unix/Linux

Organizations Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics (SIAM), American Statistical

Association (ASA)

References Available upon request

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