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

• 2012/7 - , Chair, Department of Statistics, Yale University.
• 2012/1 - 2012/6, Acting Chair, Department of Statistics, 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.
  Registration deadline April 16, 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

• Fall 2012 (Fall 2007), Stat 241/541, Probability Theory with Applications
  
• 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 673, Functional Data Analysis
  
• Fall 2005, Stat 610, Statistical Inference
  

Publications

• Estimating Sparse Precision Matrix: Optimal Rates of Convergence and Adaptive Estimation (with T. Cai and W. Liu).  
  Preprint
• Quantile Coupling Inequalities and Their Applications (with D. Mason).  
  Probability Survey, to appear. Preprint (Zhou (2006) is merged into this paper.)
• Discussion of "Latent Variable Graphical Model Selection Via Convex Optimization" (with Z. Ren).  
  Annals of Statistics, to appear. Preprint
• Optimal Volatility Matrix Estimation for High Dimensional Diffusions With Noise Contamination (with M. Tao and Y. Wang).  
  Annals of Statistics, to appear. Preprint
• Optimal Rates of Convergence for Estimating Toeplitz Covariance Matrices (with T. Cai and Z. Ren).  
  Probability Theory and Related Fields To appear. Preprint
• Optimal Rates of Convergence for Sparse Covariance Matrix Estimation (with T. Cai).  
  Annals of Statistics, to appear. Preprint and Supplement
• 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
• Functional Regression for General Exponential Families (with W. Dou, D. Pollard).  
  Annals of Statistics, to appear. Preprint
• Minimax Estimation of Large Covariance Matrices under l_{1}-Norm (with T. Cai).  
  Statistica Sinica with discussions. Preprint
• Model Selection and Sharp Asymptotic Minimaxity (with Z. Wu).  
  Probability Theory and Related Fields To appear. Preprint
• False Discovery Rate Control with Groups (with J. Hu and H. Zhao).  
  J. American Statistical Association, vol. 105, issue 491, 1215-1227, 2010. Preprint
• Optimal Rates of Convergence for Covariance Matrix Estimation (with T. Cai and C.-H. Zhang).  
  Annals of Statistics, 38, 2118-2144, 2010. Preprint
• 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).
• 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
• Adaptive Functional Linear Regression (with T. Cai).  
  Preprint
• Nonparametric Regression in Exponential Families (with L.D. Brown and T. Cai).  
  Annals of Statistics, 38, 2005-2046, 2010. Preprint
• Discussion of ``Sure independence screening for ultra-high dimensional feature space'' (with X. Lin).  
  Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 2008. Preprint
• Robust Nonparametric Estimation via Wavelet Median Regression (with L.D. Brown and T. Cai).  
  Annals of Statistics 36, 2055-2084, 2008. EUCLID.
• A Note on Quantile Coupling Inequalities and Their Applications  
  Preprint
• A Complement to Le Cam's Theorem (with M. Low).  
  Annals of Statistics 35, 1146-1165, 2007. EUCLID.
• 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.)
• Asymptotic Equivalence of Spectral Density Estimation and Gaussian White Noise (with G. Golubev, M. Nussbaum).  
  Annals of Statistics 38, 181-214, 2010. EUCLID.
• Minimax Estimation with Thresholding and its application to Wavelet Analysis (with J. T. Hwang).  
  Annals of Statistics 33, 1, 101-125, 2005. EUCLID.
• Minimax Estimation with Thresholding and Asymptotic Equivalence for Gaussian Variance Regression.  
  Ph.D. Dissertation, 2004, Cornell University. pdf