Gongjun Xu
Professor of Statistics
Professor of Psychology (by courtesy)
University of Michigan
Email: gongjun at umich edu Phone: 734.647.9532
462 West Hall, 1085 South University, Ann Arbor, MI, 48109
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Research Interests
Research Interests
Latent variable models, psychometrics
Statistical learning and inference, high-dimensional statistics
Semiparametric models, survival analysis
Education
Education
PhD in Statistics, Columbia University, 2013
Advisors: Zhiliang Ying and Jingchen LiuB.S., University of Science & Technology of China (USTC), 2008
Editorial Services
Editorial Services
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2022-2027)
Associate Editor, Journal of American Statistical Association (2023- )
Associate Editor, Psychometrika (2023- )
Associate Editor, Annals of Applied Statistics (2022- )
Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica (2020- )
Associate Editor, Journal of Data Science (2020- )
Consulting Editor, British Journal of Mathematical and Statistical Psychology (2024- )
Consulting Editor, Behavior Research Methods (2022-2024)
Editorial Board, Scientific Reports (2023-2025)
Honors and Awards
Honors and Awards
International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) President's Citation Award, 2024
Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Emerging Leader Award, 2023
Plenary Invited Lecture, Annual Meeting of the Classification Society, 2023
Keynote Speaker, Annual Conference of Chinese Association of Psychological Testing, 2022
Excellence in PhD Teaching award for Fall 2020, GS-JEDI and the PhD Student Council
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
Recent News
🎉 Congratulations to Bo on successfully defending his dissertation and becoming Dr. Meng! (July, 2025)
🎉 Congratulations to Shihao on receiving the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship 2025-26 (March 2025)
🎉 Our research was recognized with the American Educational Research Association (AERA) Division D Significant Contribution to Research Methodology Award (Feb 2025)
🎉 Congratulations to Chengyu on receiving the 2025 ASA Mental Health Statistics Section (MHSS) Student Paper Award! (Jan 2025)
🎉 Congratulations to Shihao on receiving the Rackham International Student Fellowship! (Nov 2024)
🎉 Congratulations to Shihao on receiving the 2024 IMS International Conference on Statistics and Data Science (ICSDS) Student Travel Award! (Sept 2024)
🎉 Congratulations to Weicong on joining the College of Education at University of Macao as an Assistant Professor of Educational Testing, Assessment and Evaluation! (Sept 2024)
🎉 Thanks to the Institute of Education Sciences (IES) for supporting our research with Dr. Chun Wang on "Variational Methods and Factor Regularization: Analyzing Complex Large-Scale Assessments with High-Dimensional Covariates"! (Aug 2024)
🎉 Congratulations to Jing on Joining the Business School at the University of Hong Kong as an Assistant Professor! (July, 2024)
🎉 Gongjun received 2024 International Chinese Statistical Association (ICSA) President's Citation Award
🎉 Congratulations to Shihao Wu, Chengyu Cui, Bo Meng, Jing Ouyang, and Zhiwei Xu for winning the Graduate Student Research Competition Award at the 2024 International Meeting of Psychometric Society (IMPS)! (July 2024)
🎉 Congratulations to Jing on receiving the PhD Outstanding Dissertation Award! (May, 2024)
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