The main focus of SLDM@PSU is on Computational and Data Sciences. Our research interests include the following:
- High Dimensional Statistics
- Nonparametric Statistics
- Statistical Learning
- Large Scale Optimization
- Statistical Modeling in Biomedical Science, Business Analytics, Information Science, and Public Health
Here is our latest SLDM News. We have a series of SLDM Talks on emerging topics and trends on statistical learning and data mining and a series of NSSL Talks on new advances in nonparametric statistics and statistical learning.
We have also taught short courses on High-Dimensional Statistics, Statistical Learning, and Network Analysis, including Deep Learning and GeoNet.
Software and Data Library:
- amanpg: Alternating Manifold Proximal Gradient Method for Sparse PCA (R package)
- ddpca: Diagonally Dominant Principal Component Analysis (R package)
- ergmclust: Model-Based Clustering of Networks through ERGMs (R package)
- sparsepca: Sparse Principal Component Analysis in Python (Python package)
- sufficientForecasting: Sufficient Forecasting using Factor Models (R package)
- Earnings Fidelity Measures (and Economic Persistence) (link)
Current Members:
- Lingzhou Xue (Professor of Statistics)
- Satarupa Bhattacharjee (Postdoctoral Scholar | Ph.D. in Statistics, 2022, University of California, Davis)
- Haoyi Yang (Ph.D. student in Statistics | Cohort: Fall 2018)
- Dian Zheng (Ph.D. student in Statistics | Cohort: Fall 2020)
- Zhong Zheng (Ph.D. student in Statistics | Cohort: Fall 2020)
- Yizhe Ding (Ph.D. student in Statistics | Cohort: Fall 2022)
- Dianjun Lin (Ph.D. student in Statistics | Cohort: Fall 2022)
Affiliate Members:
- Danning Li (KLAS and School of Mathematics & Statistics, Northeast Normal University)
- Jiawei Yao (Quantitative Researcher, Hedge Fund)
Main Collaborators:
- Susan Brantley (Department of Geosciences, Penn State University)
- Qian Chen (Smeal College of Business, Penn State University)
- Jianqing Fan (Department of Operations Research and Financial Engineering, Princeton University)
- Shiqian Ma (Department of Computational Applied Math and Operations Research, Rice University)
- Tao Wen (Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Syracuse University)
- Xiang Zhan (Department of Biostatistics and BICMR, Peking University)
- Hui Zou (School of Statistics, University of Minnesota)
Former Ph.D. Students:
- Amal Agarwal (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2020 | First Job: Data Scientist, eBay Inc.)
- Kevin Lee (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2017 | First Job: Assistant Professor of Statistics at Western Michigan University)
- Bingyuan Liu (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2021 | First Job: Data Scientist, Google Inc.)
- Nicholas Rios (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2022 | First Job: Assistant Professor of Statistics at George Mason University)
- Arun Srinivasan (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2022 | First Job: Principal Statistician, GSK plc.)
- Jun Tao (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2022 | First Job: Machine Learning Engineer, Adobe Inc.)
- Xiufan Yu (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2021 | First Job: Assistant Professor of Statistics at the University of Notre Dame)
- Qi Zhang (Ph.D. in Statistics, 2023 | First Job: Machine Learning Engineer, Adobe Inc.)
Former B.Sc. Students:
- Alex Chen (B.Sc. in Statistics, 2020 | Ph.D. Student in Statistics at the University of California, Los Angeles)
- Brent Hoffert (B.Sc. in Statistics, 2018 | First Job: Software Engineer at Microsoft)
- Justin Huang (Honors B.Sc. in Computer Science and Statistics, 2023 | First Job: Junior Data Scientist at Rockwell Automation)
- Benjamin Jochem (Honors B.Sc. student in Finance and Statistics, 2022 | First Job: Research Analyst at Messari)
- Jon McKellar (Honors B.Sc. in Mathematics and Economics, 2018 | First Job: Business Analyst at McKinsey)
- Yuefei Shen (Honors B.Sc. in Mathematics, 2017 | Ph.D. Student in Statistics at the University of Minnesota)
- Christopher Vo (Honors B.Sc. in Computer Science, 2021 | First Job: Product Manager at Microsoft)
- Jingyu Wang (Honors B.Sc. in Statistics and Data Science, 2022 | First Job: Analyst at Roivant Sciences)
- Anna Yinqi Zhang (Honors B.Sc. in Statistics, 2020 | Ph.D. Student in Educational Psychology at Penn State University)
Former Visiting Students:
- Yuwei Luo (Summer 2017 | Ph.D. Student at the Stanford Graduate School of Business)
- Jingcheng Xu (Summer 2017 | Ph.D. Student in Statistics at the University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- Yu Gui (Summer 2018 | Ph.D. Student in Statistics at the University of Chicago)
- Qi Zhang (Summer 2018 | Ph.D. Student in Statistics at Penn State University)
- Lei Shi (Summer 2019 | Ph.D. Student in Biostatistics at the University of California, Berkeley)
- Yang Xu (Summer 2019 | Ph.D. Student in Statistics at the North Carolina State University)