Haiyan Wang

Software

• Global vector representation for English WordPiece tokens based on SA-Tweedie model: Taejoon Kim, Haiyan Wang (2025). Global Dense Vector Representations for Words or Items Using Shared Parameter Alternating Tweedie Model. Mathematics.

• 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.