About Me
I am Xiaoke Zhang (张小可), Deputy Chair and Associate Professor in the Department of Statistics within the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences (CCAS) of the George Washington University (GW). I am an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). I am serving the editorial boards of Computational Statistics & Data Analysis, Statistica Sinica, and Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series C (Applied Statistics) respectively as Associate Editor.
Education
- PhD, Statistics, University of California, Davis, 2014. Advisor: Jane-Ling Wang.
- BS, Statistics, Peking University, China, 2009.
Contact Information
- xkzhang AT gwu DOT edu
Recent News
- Jul 2024: I receive a GW CDRF grant "Precision Physical Activity Prescription: Innovative Use of Reinforcement Learning Algorithms" as the Lead PI.
- May 2024: Yi Zhang passes the PhD dissertation defense exam. Congratulations!
- May 2024: The "Statistics in the Age of AI" conference is held on May 9-11, 2024 at GW. I am the chair of the organizing committee (Xiaoke Zhang, Kehui Chen, Alexander Petersen, Subrata Kundu, Joshua Landon, Gefei Lin).
- Apr 2024: I graduate from the GW Academic Leadership Academy (GWALA).
- Mar 2024: Yi Zhang receives the Minna Mirin Kullback Memorial Prize for Research and Scholarship by the GW Department of Statistics. Congratulations!
- Mar 2024: I receive a NSF conference grant "Conference: Statistics in the Age of AI" as the PI. The grant will be used to financially support the conference "Statistics in the Age of AI" on May 9-11, 2024 at GW.
- Jul 2023: I am now the Deputy Chair of the Department of Statistics.
- Jun 2023: I am now an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI).
- Jun 2023: I receive a GW CDRF grant "Regularization of Recommender Systems and Click-Bait Algorithms in Social Media" as the Lead PI.