Harrison Huibin Zhou


Yale Statistics Workshop, May 15-17, 2009

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

CV

Technical Reports

1. Functional Regression for General Exponential Families (with W. Dou, D. Pollard).
Submitted to AOS.

2. Minimax Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices under $\ell _{1}$-Norm (with T. Cai).
Submitted to AOS.

3. Model Selection and Sharp Asymptotic Minimaxity (with Z. Wu).
Submitted to AOS.

4. Multiple Hypothesis Testing with Groups (with J. Hu and H. Zhao).
Under revision for JASA.

5. Optimal Rates of Convergence for Covariance Matrix Estimation (with T. Cai and C.-H. Zhang).
The Annals of Statistics . To appear.

6. Asymptotic Equivalence and Adaptive Estimation for Robust Nonparametric Regression (with T. Cai), (a longer version with details here).
The Annals of Statistics ,37, 3204-3235, 2009.

7. Adaptive Functional Linear Regression (with T. Cai).
Technical Report.

8. Nonparametric Regression in Exponential Families (with L.D. Brown and T. Cai).
The Annals of Statistics . To appear.

9. 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.

10. Robust Nonparametric Estimation via Wavelet Median Regression (with L.D. Brown and T. Cai).
The Annals of Statistics , 36, 2055-2084, 2008.

11. A Note on Quantile Coupling Inequalities and Their Applications.
Technical Report.
12. A Complement to Le Cam's Theorem (with Mark G. Low).
The Annals of Statistics , 35, 1146-1165, 2007.
13. A Data-Driven Block Thresholding Approach To Wavelet Estimation (with T. Tony Cai), (a longer version with details here).
The Annals of Statistics ,37, 569-595, 2009.
14. Asymptotic Equivalence of Spectral Density Estimation and Gaussian White Noise (with Georgi K. Golubev, Michael Nussbaum).
The Annals of Statistics ,38, 181-214, 2010.
15. Minimax Estimation with Thresholding and its application to Wavelet Analysis (with J.T. Gene Hwang).
The Annals of Statistics , 33, 1, 101-125, 2005.

Ph.D. Dissertation: Minimax Estimation with Thresholding and Asymptotic Equivalence for Gaussian Variance Regression pdf, 2004, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

Honors and Awards

Noether Young Researcher Scholar Award, 2009. For outstanding early career contributions to nonparametric statistics.
National Science Foundation CAREER Award, 2007.
Liu Memorial Award, May 2001. Awarded to the best student researcher of Chinese descent at Cornell. Established in the late 1960s. First mathematics graduate student to receive this honor.

Teaching

Spring 2010, Stat 665, Data Mining and Machine Learning
Fall 2009, Stat 106/506, Introduction to Statistics: Data Analysis
Fall 2009 (Spring 2006), Stat 680, Nonparametric Estimation
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

Editorial Appointments

Associate Editor, The Annals of Statistics, 2010-
Guest Editor, Statistics and Its Interface Special Issue for the Second IMS-China International Conference