"Statistics is, or should be, about scientific investigation and how to do it better."
George Box
CONTACT INFORMATION
Email: mhu@pstat.ucsb.edu
Phone: (608)338-2571
Website: https://sites.google.com/view/mingzhaohu
Address: South Hall 5431M
Department of Statistics and
Applied Probability,
University of California,
Santa Barbara, CA, 93106, USA
Mingzhao Hu
About me
Hi, I'm Ming, and I am a final-year PhD candidate in the Department of Statistics and Applied Probability at the University of California Santa Barbara, advised by Prof. Yuedong Wang. I'm also very fortunate to have both Prof. Sreenivasa Rao Jammalamadaka and Prof. Wendy Meiring to guide my research as my dissertation committee advisors.
My research interests include longitudinal data analysis, survival analysis, machine learning, and missing value problems. I'm fond of finding statistical solutions to topics motivated by large clinical datasets such as electronic health records, spatial-temporal data related to environmental studies, as well as economics and actuarial science. Currently I focus on applying state space methods in online prediction of mixed type clinical data, while working on developing methods in high-dimensional statistics.
Prior to joining UCSB, I obtained my B.S. in both statistics and mathematics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison with Honors.
Please find my CV here.
Recent News
· Our paper, The effect of fuel subsidies on Chinese distant water fishing, will be presented at ASSA 2022 in New Orleans on January 8, 2023! The session starts at 1:00 PM. This is a collaborative project and sheds light on newest findings for Chinese fisheries using causal inference.
· I am presenting my research, Dynamic Models for Corporate Competitiveness of Global Healthcare Industry with Mixed Effects, at JSM 2022 in DC on August 9, 2022! The talk starts at 8:30 AM and is followed by the poster session at 10:30-11:15 AM. Looking forward to meeting everyone there!
· The session I am chairing for the Biopharmaceutical session at JSM 2022, ASA Biopharmaceutical Section Student Paper Award Competition, is scheduled for 2:00-3:50 PM on 8/9/2022. This year we have a wonderful collection of innovative contributions ranging from clustering method for longitudinal data to a novel synthetic data integration framework with external summary information. Hope everyone can come and join me in celebrating the participants on their research innovations!
· I have been very fortunate to be given the opportunity to be participating in The 5th Preparing for Careers in Teaching Statistics and Data Science Workshop in DC! I am really grateful that my application has been selected and also to be support financially for the attendance. I am excited for the event to help me prepare for a future role as faculty responsible for teaching statistics and data science to undergraduate students, and to use it to reflect and improve my instructional practice.
· I am chairing at the Royal Statistical Society Young Statisticians Meeting 2022 and giving a refereed talk remotely on August 5! This is a delightful event for graduate students and early-career statisticians to showcase their research, network, and find collaborations. Please check it out at https://sites.google.com/view/ysm-2022, registration is currently open and free for students members of the RSS.
· Heads up, everyone, the Statistics In Phaprmaceuticals 2022 (SIP2022) conference is coming 08/22-08/26 and it's hybrid! This features a rich collection of talks from top stat/biostat leaders in pharma and student opportunities from high school to grad school. I am contributing a talk motivated by my summer data science research with Dexcom. Inc as well. Please check it out at https://events.stat.uconn.edu/SIP2022/#about.
GRANTS
1. UCSB Academic Senate (July 2022). 2022-23 Doctoral Student Travel Grant.
2. UCSB Graduate Division (July 2022). 2022 ARP Doctoral Student Summer Grant.
3. UCSB Department of Statistics and Applied Probability (May 2022). Departmental Summer Conference Grant 2022.
4. ASA Student & Early Career Travel Award. Symposium on Data Science and Statistics (SDSS) Conference, Apr 2022.
5. UCSB Academic Senate (August 2021). 2021-22 Doctoral Student Travel Grant.
6. UCSB Department of Statistics and Applied Probability (June 2021). Departmental Summer Conference Grant 2022.
7. UCSB Graduate Division (June 2020 - October 2020). Graduate Student Summer Mini-grants for Multidisciplinary Research on COVID-19 and its Impacts. Selected for extra exceptional funding via the Research Accelerator Award. Research featured in departmental highlights.
8. UCSB Department of Statistics and Applied Probability (August 2020). Departmental Summer Conference Grant 2020.
9. UW Madison Letters & Science Honors Program (April 2017). Bromley Research Conference Travel Grant, 2017.
HONORS AND AWARDS
1. First Place Poster Award, Statistics in Pharmaceuticals 2022, August 2022.
2. First Place, Data Challenge Expo 2021, August 2021. Jointly sponsored by the Statistical Computing Section, Statistical Graphics Section, and Government Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association.
3. Third place, 2017 Data Challenge, August 2017. Jointly sponsored by the Government Statistics Section, the Statistical Computing Section, and the Statistical Graphics Section of the American Statistical Association.
4. Letters & Science Honors Program Summer Thesis Award, June 2016. UW Madison Letters & Science Honors Program.
5. President’s Honors Roll, June 2015, June 2014, June 2013. Hong Kong Baptist University.
6. Padma and Hari Harilela Scholarship for outstanding students 2014, December 2014. Hong Kong Baptist University.
7. Sir Tseng Chi Lu Scholarship for outstanding students 2014, December 2014. Hong Kong Baptist University.
8. Dean’s Honors Roll, December 2014. Hong Kong Baptist University.
