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Ruizhi Zhang is an Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Georgia, Athens. Before that, he was an assistant professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He received his B.S. degree in Mathematics from Hua Loo-Keng Talent Program in Mathematics at the University of Science and Technology of China (USTC) in 2014, graduated with honors.  He received his P.h.D degree in Industrial Engineering from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology in 2019, and he was co-advised by Prof. Yajun Mei and Prof. Jianjun Shi.  His research interests include change-point detection, sequential analysis, robust statistics, high-dimensional statistical inference, etc. 

News:

May 2024, I received the 19th Abraham Wald Prize in Sequential Analysis for our paper “Robust change detection for large-scale data streams” published in Sequential Analysis.

Aug 2021, I received an award from NSF as PI in collaboration with Dr. Shaofeng Zou (UB): “CCSS: Collaborative Research: Quickest Threat Detection in Adversarial Sensor Networks”. Thanks to NSF!

March 2020, I received the IISE Pritsker Doctoral Dissertation Award, 1st Place.