Harrison Huibin Zhou

Department of Statistics
Yale University

Phone: (203) 432 0643
FAX: (203) 432 0633
Email: huibin.zhou@yale.edu

Curriculum Vitae

Education

• 2004, Ph.D., Cornell University.

Position

• 2012/1- , Acting Chair, Yale University.
• 2010/7- , Professor, Yale University.
• 2009/7-2010/6, Associate Professor, Yale University.
• 2004/7-2009/6, Assistant Professor, Yale University.

Professional service

• Co-Organizer for NSF Workshop for High-Dimensional Data: Theory, Methodology and Applications, May 31 - June 2, 2012.
• Associate Editor, The Annals of Statistics, 2010-
• Co-Guest Editor, Statistics and Its Interface Special Issue for the Second IMS-China International Conference 2009-10.
• Organizer for Yale Statistics Workshop "Innovation and Inventiveness in Statistics Methodologies" in honor of John Hartigan, May 15-17, 2009.
• Co-Chair of the organizing committee for International Conference on Statistics and Society, July 10-12, 2010.

Teaching

• Spring 2012, Stat 611, Decision Theory
  
• Fall 2011 (Fall 2009), Stat 106/506, Introduction to Statistics: Data Analysis
  
• Fall 2011 (Fall 2009, Spring 2006), Stat 680, Nonparametric Estimation
  
• Spring 2010, Stat 665, Data Mining and Machine Learning
  
• Spring 2008, Stat 242/542, Theory of Statistics
  
• Spring 2008, Stat 619, Statistical Decision Theory
  
• Fall 2007, Stat 241/541, Probability Theory with Applications
  
• Fall 2007, Stat 673, Functional Data Analysis
  
• Fall 2005, Stat 610, Statistical Inference
  

Publications

1. Optimal Volatility Matrix Estimation for High Dimensional Diffusions With Noise Contamination (with M. Tao and Y. Wang).  
   Preprint
2. Optimal Rates of Convergence for Estimating Toeplitz Covariance Matrices (with T. Cai and Z. Ren).  
   Probability Theory and Related Fields To appear. Preprint
3. Optimal Rates of Convergence for Sparse Covariance Matrix Estimation (with T. Cai).  
   Preprint
4. Nonparametric Regression in Natural Exponential Families (with T. Cai).  
   Borrowing Strength: Theory Powering Applications, A Festschrift for Lawrence D. Brown, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2010. Preprint
5. Functional Regression for General Exponential Families (with W. Dou, D. Pollard).  
   Preprint
6. Minimax Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices under l_{1}-Norm (with T. Cai).  
   Statistica Sinica with discussions. Preprint
7. Model Selection and Sharp Asymptotic Minimaxity (with Z. Wu).  
   Probability Theory and Related Fields To appear. Preprint
8. False Discovery Rate Control with Groups (with J. Hu and H. Zhao).  
   J. American Statistical Association, vol. 105, issue 491, 1215-1227, 2010. Preprint
9. Optimal Rates of Convergence for Covariance Matrix Estimation (with T. Cai and C.-H. Zhang).  
   Annals of Statistics, 38, 2118-2144, 2010. Preprint
10. Asymptotic Equivalence and Adaptive Estimation for Robust Nonparametric Regression (with T. Cai).  
    Annals of Statistics 37, 3204-3235, 2009. EUCLID. (For a longer version with details see Preprint).
11. The Root-unroot Algorithm for Density Estimation as Implemented via Wavelet Block Thresholding (with L.D. Brown, T. Cai, L. Zhao and R. Zhang).  
    Probability Theory and Related Fields 146, 401-433, 2010. SpringerLink
12. Adaptive Functional Linear Regression (with T. Cai).  
    Preprint
13. Nonparametric Regression in Exponential Families (with L.D. Brown and T. Cai).  
    Annals of Statistics, 38, 2005-2046, 2010. Preprint
14. Robust Nonparametric Estimation via Wavelet Median Regression (with L.D. Brown and T. Cai).  
    Annals of Statistics 36, 2055-2084, 2008. EUCLID.
15. A Note on Quantile Coupling Inequalities and Their Applications  
    Preprint
16. A Complement to Le Cam's Theorem (with M. Low).  
    Annals of Statistics 35, 1146-1165, 2007. EUCLID.
17. A Data-Driven Block Thresholding Approach To Wavelet Estimation (with T. Cai).  
    Annals of Statistics 37, 569-595, 2009. EUCLID. (For a longer version with details see Preprint.)
18. Asymptotic Equivalence of Spectral Density Estimation and Gaussian White Noise (with G. Golubev, M. Nussbaum).  
    Annals of Statistics 38, 181-214, 2010. EUCLID.
19. Minimax Estimation with Thresholding and its application to Wavelet Analysis (with J. T. Hwang).  
    Annals of Statistics 33, 1, 101-125, 2005. EUCLID.
20. Minimax Estimation with Thresholding and Asymptotic Equivalence for Gaussian Variance Regression.  
    Ph.D. Dissertation, 2004, Cornell University. pdf