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
Co-Editor-in-Chief, Journal of Educational and Behavioral Statistics (2022- )
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, Behavior Research Methods (2022- )
Editorial Board, Scientific Reports (2023- )
Honors and Awards
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
🎉 Congratulations to Shihao on receiving the IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award! (April, 2024)
🎉 Congratulations to Bo on receiving the Rackham Predoctoral Fellowship 2024-25 (March 2024)
🎉 Big Congratulations to Jing, who just accepted a Tenure-Track Assistant Professor position in the Business School at the University of Hong Kong! (Feb, 2024)
🎉 Congratulations to Shihao on receiving the student paper award from the Statistical Learning and Data Science Section of the ASA (Jan, 2024)
📢 We organized the 2023 ICSA Applied Statistics Symposium, which was held from Sunday, June 11 to Wednesday, June 14, 2023 in Ann Arbor, Michigan!
🎉 Gongjun received 2023 Psychometric Society Early Career Award and 2023 Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) Emerging Leader Award.
🎉 Congratulations to Raphael Chin on receiving Outstanding Undergraduate Award (April 2023)
🎉 Congratulations to Raphael Chin, Emma Thronson, and Jingruo Sun on completing their Honors Theses (April 2023)
🎉 Congratulations to Jing on receiving the IMS Hannan Graduate Student Travel Award! (March, 2023)