Ji Zhu Susan A. Murphy Collegiate Professor Department of Statistics University of Michigan, Ann Arbor E-mail: jizhu at umich dot edu Phone: (734) 936-2577 Fax: (734) 763-4676 Office: 455 West Hall

Current Research Interests

• Statistical machine learning
• Statistical network analysis
• Statistical modeling for health and science

Education

• PhD in Statistics, Stanford University, 2003. Advisor: Trevor Hastie
• MSc in Statistics, Stanford University, 2000
• BSc in Physics, Peking University, 1996

Honors and Awards

• 2022 Pao-Lu Hsu Award, International Chinese Statistical Association
• 2020 Grand Prize Winner, COVID-19 Data Challenge, American Heart Association
• 2015 Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
• 2014-2020 Web of Science Highly Cited Researcher
• 2013 Fellow, American Statistical Association
• 2011-2013 Chair-Elect and Chair, Statistical Learning and Data Science Section, American Statistical Association
• 2010 Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute
• 2008-2013 CAREER Award, National Science Foundation
• 2002 Student Paper Competition Award, Computing Section, American Statistical Association
• 1998-2001 Kimball Graduate Fellowship, Stanford University

Current Editorial Services

• 2022- Editor-in-Chief, Annals of Applied Statistics
• 2020- Action Editor, Journal of Machine Learning Research

Affiliations

• Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS)
• Michigan Integrated Center for Health Analytics and Medical Prediction (MiCHAMP)

Past Teaching

• Stats 413 Applied Regression Analysis
• DataSci 415 Introduction to Statistical Machine Learning
• Stats 425 Introduction to Probability
• Stats 500 Statistical Learning I: Linear Models
• Stats 503 Statistical Learning II: Modern Multivariate Analysis
• Stats 605 Advanced Topics in Modeling and Data Analysis
• Stats 700 Statistical Machine Learning
• FinEng 508 Statistical Methods in Finance

Past Editorial Services

• 2012-2021 Associate Editor, Journal of the Computational and Graphical Statistics
• 2011-2021 Associate Editor, Journal of the American Statistical Association
• 2011-2015 Associate Editor, Biometrika
• 2009-2012 Associate Editor, Canadian Journal of Statistics
• 2009-2011 Associate Editor, Statistical Analysis and Data Mining

Publications

Postdocs and Students