Lisha Chen's Home Page
Assistant Professor
Department of Statistics
Yale University
24 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT 06511
(203) 432-5785
lisha.chen@yale.edu
Curriculum vitae
Teaching
- Fall 2009/Spring 2010 On leave. Visiting SAMSI.
- Spring 2009, Statistical Machine Learning (AKA: Data Mining and
Machine Learning), 11:35-12:50 M/.W - Syllabus and course
website
- Spring 2009, Unsupervised Learning: Dimension Reduction and Clustering Analysis,
10:30-12:30 Thur - Syllabus
- Fall 2008, Data Analysis - course
website
Research Interests
- Data Mining/Machine Learning
- Nonlinear Dimension Reduction
- Variable Selection
- Time Series Analysis
Publication and
Manuscripts
- Chen, L. and Buja, A. "Energy/Stress Functions for dimension reduction
and Graph Drawing: Power Laws and Their Clustering Properties
", 2009, submitted, paper.
- Chen, L. and Buja, A. "Local Multidimensional
Scaling for Nonlinear Dimension Reduction, Graph Drawing and Proximity
Analysis", 2009, the Journal of American Statistical Association,
Vol. 104, No. 485; pg. 209, paper,
supplemental materials.
- Buja, A., Swayne, D., Littman, M., Dean, N., Hofmann,
H. and Chen, L. "Data Visualization with Multidimensional
Scaling", 2008, the Journal of Computational and Graphical
Statistics, Vol. 17, Iss. 2; pg. 444 [.pdf]
Links
Writing
- Efficient Writing in Mathematical Statistics
by Steve Marron (posted with author's permission)