Assistant State University

Wen-Yu Hua

Department of Statistics Phone: +1-814-***-****

Contact

The Pennsylvania State University E-mail: wxh182 at psu dot edu

Information

331A Thomas Building Web: www.personal.psu.edu/wxh182

University Park, PA 16802 USA

Machine Learning, Data Mining, Computer Vision/Image Processing, and Statistical Genetics

Research

Interests

Operating System: Windows, and Unix/Linux

Computer

Programming Language: C

Skills

Math/Stat software: Matlab, Maple, Minitab, R, SAS, and SPSS

Ph.D., Statistics, Pennsylvania State University 08/2008 - 08/2014

Education

M.E., Computer Science & Engineering, Pennsylvania State University 01/2012 - 08/2014

M.S., Statistics, National Chiao Tung University, Taiwan 09/2004 - 06/2006

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

Research

Research Assistant, Department of Statistics Fall 2011 - Present

Experience

• Derive the asymptotic distribution of kernel distance measure, and further select optimal

kernels for the test of independence.

• Established the equivalence between Kernel Machine Regression (KMR) and Kernel Distance

Measure (KDC), and derive the general form of KDC with the effects of covaraints for high

dimensional data.

• Worked on the topic of genomewide association study (gWAS) using the ADNI data, explored

the genetic biomarkers for the onset of Alzheimer’s disease, used kernel distance measure to

investigate the associations between brain MRI data and SNP variants, and applied multiple

testing correction to detect SNPs genotypes.

Institute of Statistical Science, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan

Research Assistant July 2007 - July 2008

• Worked with Dr. Chen-Hsin Chen and Dr. Hsin-Chou Yang on the topic of SNP-SNP inter-

action with the association to Schizophrenia

Quest Diagnostics, New Jersey, USA

Working

Intern Summer 2011

Experience

• Worked with Dr. Garl Garber and Dr. Caixia Bi on the pre-analysis of the enhanced Quality

Control project: model the data collected from different labs, compare their distributions and

then characterize their features.

The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA

Teaching

Lecturer, Department of Statistics

Experience

• STAT 200 (Elementary Statistics) Summer 2013

• STAT 480 (Introduction to SAS) Summer 2012

• STAT 897D (Applied Data Mining) Fall 2011

• Wen-Yu Hua, Thomas E. Nichols, Debashis Ghosh, (2013) Multiple Comparison Procedures

Publications:

for Neuroimaging Genomewide Association Studies, Biostatistics (submitted)

• Chen-Ping Yu, Wen-Yu Hua, Dimitris Samaras, and Greg Zelinsky, (2013) Modeling Clutter

Perception using Parametric Proto-object Partitioning, NIPS.

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