Gongjun Xu
Associate Professor of Statistics
Associate Professor of Psychology (by courtesy)
University of Michigan
Email: gongjun at umich edu Phone: 734.647.9532
456 West Hall, 1085 South University, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109
Research Interests
Latent variable models, psychometrics
Statistical learning and inference, high-dimensional statistics
Semiparametric models, survival analysis
Education
PhD in Statistics, Columbia University, 2013
Advisors: Zhiliang Ying and Jingchen LiuB.S., University of Science & Technology of China (USTC), 2008
Editorial Services
Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Statistics
Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica
Associate Editor, Journal of Data Science
Consulting Editor, Behavior Research Methods
Honors and Awards
Excellence in PhD Teaching award for Fall 2020, GS-JEDI and the PhD Student Council
NSF CAREER Award, 2019
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 appointed Co-Editor of Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (May 2022)
📢 Congratulations to Chengcheng on successfully defending his dissertation and becoming Dr. Li! (May 2022)
📢 Thanks NSF for supporting our research project "General Cognitive Diagnosis Models: Development, Estimation, and Applications" (with Prof. Wenchao Ma at U of Alabama) (April 2022)
📢 Congratulations to Chenchen on successfully defending her dissertation and becoming Dr. Ma! (April 2022)
📢 Congratulations to Jinming on receiving the Best Presentation Award from the Michigan Student Symposium for Interdisciplinary Statistical Sciences (MSSISS) (March 2022)
📢 Congratulations to Yinqiu on receiving the 2021 ProQuest Distinguished Dissertation Award! (Feb, 2022)
📢 Congratulations to Jinming on receiving the 2022 ASA Nonparametric Statistics Student Paper Award (Jan, 2022)
📢 Congratulations to Bo on receiving the Rackham International Student Fellowship 2021-2022 (Dec, 2021)
📢 Congratulations to Bo on receiving the Outstanding First Year PhD Student Award (Sep, 2021)
📢 Congratulations to Yinqiu on successfully defending her dissertation and becoming Dr. He! Yinqiu will join the Statistics Department at the University of Wisconsin as an Assistant Professor in 2022 (April, 2021)