Gongjun Xu
Associate Professor of Statistics and Psychology (by courtesy)
University of Michigan
456 West Hall, 1085 South University, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109
E-mail: gongjun at umich edu
Phone: 734~647~9532
Research Interests
Latent variable models, psychometrics, cognitive diagnosis modeling
High-dimensional statistics, rare-event analysis
Semiparametric models, survival analysis
Education
PhD in Statistics, Columbia University, 2013.
Advisors: Zhiliang Ying and Jingchen Liu
B.S., University of Science & Technology of China (USTC), 2008.
Editorial Services
Associate Editor, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2019 -- ).
Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica (2020 -- ).
Associate Editor, Journal of Data Science (2020 -- ).
Honors and Awards
Excellence in PhD Teaching award for Fall 2020, GS-JEDI and the PhD Student Council
NSF CAREER Award, 2019 -- 2024
Outstanding Young Researcher Award, International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA), 2019
ICSA China Conference Junior Researcher Award, 2018
NSA Mathematical Sciences Program Young Investigator Award, 2016
IES Statistical & Research Methodology in Education Early Career Grant (with Chun Wang), 2016
ASA Nonparametric Statistics Section Student Paper Award, 2011
IMS Laha Award, 2011
Guo Moruo Scholarship, USTC, 2007
Recent News
📢 Gongjun received the Excellence in PhD Teaching award for Fall 2020, presented by GS-JEDI and the PhD Student Council. (Jan 2021)
📢 Congratulations to Jinming on receiving the Rackham International Student Fellowship 2020-2021 (Dec 11, 2020)
📢 Thanks Institute of Education Sciences (IES) for supporting our research on statistical learning methods for large-scale educational assessments (together with Prof. Chun Wang at UW). (Sep 2020)
📢 Congratulations to Yinqiu on receiving an IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award! (May 15, 2020)
📢 Congratulations to April on successfully defending her dissertation and becoming Dr. Cho! April will be a data scientist @ Center for Naval Analyses (May 11, 2020)
📢 Congratulations to Yuqi on successfully defending her dissertation and becoming Dr. Gu! Yuqi will join the Statistics Department at Columbia University as an Assistant Professor in 2021 (March 20, 2020)
📢 Congratulations to Yinqiu on receiving the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship! (March 4, 2020)
📢 Congratulations to Yinqiu for winning the Biostats-Stats Shark Tank for Research Ideas in Data Science & Statistics (STRIDES) Proposal Award! (Feb 2020)
📢 Congratulations to Yinqiu for winning a 2020 ASA Biometrics Section JSM Travel Award! (Jan 2020)