Hao Helen Zhang, assistant professor of statistics in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, has received a four-year, $400,000 grant for her proposal titled, Nonparametric Models Building, Estimation, and Selection with Applications to High Dimensional Data Mining. Her research focuses on statistical model building and variable selection, nonlinear function estimation, and high dimensional data analysis. The work has wide applications for information extraction, data mining, and other fields demanding massive and complex data analysis such as biological, medical and engineering sciences.
Zhang received her bachelor s degree in 1996 from Beijing University and her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin in 2002. She joined the NC State faculty in 2002. calendar of Hao Helen Zhang, assistant professor of statistics in the College of Physical and Mathematical Sciences, has received a four-year, $400,000 grant for her proposal titled, Nonparametric Models Building, Estimation, and Selection with Applications to High Dimensional Data Mining.