Research Interests
Quantile regression; extreme value theory and applications; bioinformatics and biostatistics; nonparametric (semiparametric) regression; inference; variable selection; survival analysis; longitudinal data analysis; spatial analysis; measurement error; missing data
Grant Acknowledgement
01/2025-12/2027, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-2436216, "Collaborative Research: FDT-BioTech: Advancing Mathematical and Statistical Foundations to Enhance Human Digital Twin of Neurophysiological Modeling and Uncertainty Quantification", Principal Investigator (co-PI: Chung Hyuk Park)
09/2024-08/2027, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-2426174, "CDS&E-MSS: Collaborative Research: Unlocking Complex Heterogeneity in Large-Scale Spatial-Temporal Data with Adaptive Quantile Learning," Principal Investigator
07/2024-06/2026, National Institute of Health, "Antigen-Specific Immunosuppression of Myasthenia Gravis by CAR-Engineered Tregs," Co-Investigator (PI: Jie Luo)
09/2017-08/2022, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-1712760 "Inference for High Dimensional Quantile Regression," Principal Investigator
04/2016-03/2019, KAUST OSR-2015-CRG4-2582 "Statistical Process Monitoring and Risk Assessment for Engineering and Spatial Environmental Applications," Co-Investigator
09/2015-06/2016, GWU CCAS (Columbian College of Arts & Sciences) Dean's Interdisciplinary Collaboration Excellence Award on "Characterization of Social Signals in Components of Ultrasonic Vocalizations in Laboratory Mice," Co-Investigator
09/2012-08/2017, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-1149355 (DMS-1525692) "CAREER: A New and Pragmatic Framework for Modeling and Predicting Conditional Quantiles in Data-sparse Regions," Principal Investigator
08/2012-07/2013, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-1216197 "2012 International Conference on Robust Statistics (ICORS2012)," Principal Investigator
09/2010-08/2013, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-1007420, "Analysis of Incomplete Data in Quantile Regression and Semiparametric Models," Principal Investigator
09/2009-08/2011, National Science Foundation US-China Collaboration in Mathematical Research, "Semiparametric Quantile Regression for Longitudinal Data," Principal Investigator
09/2007-08/2010, National Science Foundation Grant DMS-0706963, "Collaborative Research: Nonparametric Methods for Emerging Technologies in Bioinformatics," Principal Investigator
07/2007-06/2008, NCSU Faculty Research and Professional Development Award, "A Nonparametric Method for the Detection of Alternative Splicing with Exon Tiling Array Data," Principal Investigator
