Haiyan Wang
Ph.D., Statistics (2004), Pennsylvania State University
Professor
Department of Statistics
Kansas State University
Contact Information
E-mail: hwang@ksu.edu
Office: Dickens 102A
Phone: (785) 532-0524
Fax: (785) 532-7736
Research Interests
Image analysis and predictive modeling for text data (NLP)
Data mining, machine learning, and artificial intelligence
Nonparametric methods for design and analysis
Longitudinal and functional data analysis
High dimensional data analysis with applications
Rank tests for experimental designs
Bioinformatics, genomics, and high throughput data analysis
Software
- R package HeterFunctionalData: Test of No Main and/or Interaction Effects in Functional Data. Haiyan Wang*, Mickael Akritas, James Higgins, Dale Blasi (2020). It implements the software in the following two articles:
Wang, H., Higgins, J., and Blasi, D., (2010). Distribution-Free Tests For No Effect of Treatment In Heteroscedastic Functional Data Under Both Weak And Long Range Dependence, Statistics and Probability Letters. 80: 390-402. Doi:10.1016/j.spl.2009.11.016
Wang, H. and Akritas, M.G. (2010b). Inference from heteroscedastic functional data. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics. 22(2): 149-168.
R package highDmean: Testing Two-Sample Mean in High Dimension. Huaiyu Zhang* and Haiyan Wang (2020). It implements the software in article A more powerful test of equality of high-dimensional two-sample means. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis. Volume 164, December 2021, 107318
R package tcftt: Two-Sample Tests for Skewed Data. Huaiyu Zhang* and Haiyan Wang (2020). It implements the software for article Transformation tests and their asymptotic power in two-sample comparisons. Journal of Nonparametric Statistics. Volume 33, 2021 - Issue 3-4.
R package PSSIM: Test-based Image Structural Similarity Measure PSSIM. Luann C. Jung, Haiyan Wang*, Diego Maldonado, Sharad Silwal, Siti Tolos, Suojin Wang (2020). It implements the software for the following two articles:
A nonparametric-test-based structural similarity measure for digital images. Wang, H., Maldonado, D. and Silwal S. (2011). Computational Statistics and Data Analysis. 55: 2925-2936.
A distribution free test to detect general dependence between a response variable and a covariate in the presence of heteroscedastic treatment effects. Wang, H., Tolos, S. and Wang, S. (2010). The Canadian Journal of Statistics. Vol. 38, No. 3, 408–433.
Matlab code BMSF for article Improving accuracy for cancer classification with a new algorithm for gene selection
Publications
See my Curriculum Vitae for the list of publications.
Please click this link to get access to the articles that I have published.
The link below gives a summary of my research with my advisor, students and collaborators on methodology
summary of my research on methodology
These publications spread across the following six different areas:
(1) Variable selection and modeling for high dimensional data
(2) Digital image quality assessment and image pixel classification and segmentation.
(3) Inference based on original observations for hypothesis testing.
(4) Rank based inference for high dimensional data.
(5) Rank-Test-based clustering for high dimensional data.
(6) Machine learning/data mining methods
In addition to above methodological research, I also had substantial publications on application of statistics in agriculture, public health, and entomology. See my Curriculum Vitae for the list of such publications.
Students Advising
Past Ph.D. Students and their Current Positions
George von Borries, Ph. D. 2008, (First position: Assistant Prof., Tenure track, Univ. of Brasilia)
Ke Zhang (Kurt), Ph. D. 2008, (First job: Assistant Prof., Tenure track, Univ. of North Dakota. Current job: Associate Professor, Director Rigor & Reproductibility Core, Texas A&M University Health Institute of Biosciences and Technology. )
Siti Tolos, Ph.D. 2010, First job: Assistant Prof., International Islamic Univ. of Malaysia)
Girly Ramirez (Ph.D. 2013, First job: Novatis, North Carolina. Current job: Seqirus Inc)
Mohammed Gharaibeh (Ph.D. 2014, Assistant Prof., Al Al-Bayt University, Jordan)
Mohammad Sahtout (Ph.D. 2014, First job: Statistics Specialist, Statistics and Analysis Division, Development Sector, United Arab Emirates. Current job: AbbVie, South San Francisco)
Bo Tong (Ph.D. 2015, First job: AbbVie, North Chicago)
Richard Opoku-Nsiah (Ph.D. 2017. First job: Liberty Mutual Insurance, Boston)
Huaiyu Zhang (Ph.D. 2019. First job: Fraddie Mac, Washington D.C.. Second job: Uber Data Science position)
Past M.S. Students and their Current Positions
Lei Dong (Isaac), M.S. 2009, (current position: Senior Research Analyst, Department of Biostatistics, and Data Manager for Office of Scholarly, Academic & Research Mentoring (OSARM), Department of Internal Medicine, University of Kansas Medical Center, )
Sharad Silwal, M.S. 2009, (jointly with Dr. Diego Maldonado. Currently: Tenure track Assitant Prof., Northland College)
Santosh Ghimire , M.S. 2011. (Currently: Assistant Professor, Tribhuvan University, Kathmandu, Nepal)
Liang Peng, M.S. 2011. (Currently: Ph.D. student in Computer Science, Utah State Univ.)
Dustin Maurer, M.S. 2011. (Jointly with Dr. Susan Brown. Currently: Ph.D. student in Bioinformatics, University of Kansas)
Dayou Jiang, M.S. 2012. (First job: Turner, Kansas City)
Eric Mann (M.S. 2011. First Job: Consultant, a private firm at Kansas City)
Current Students
Tae Joon Kim (Current Ph.D.)
Dunfu Yang (Current Ph.D. student, Co-advising with Gyuhyeong Goh)
Ebene (Current Ph.D. student)
Teaching at K-State
See a list of courses taught at K-State
Editorial Service
Associate Editor for Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, Austin Statistics, Statistics Research Letters and Open Journal of Statistics.
Review Editor for Frontiers in Bioinformatics and Computational Biology
Jan. 2012 – current: Elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
Service to the University
Faculty Senate Committees (Aug. 2014- 2017)
Faculty Salaries and Fringe Benefits committee
University Library Committee
Presidential Committee on Big 12 Faculty Fellowship (Fall 2014 - 2017)
Graduate Council representative for Mathematical and Engineering Sciences Academic Area (September 2015 - August 2018)
Updated on Dec. 25, 2021.