Hao Helen Zhang | |
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Nationality | Chinese |
Alma mater | Peking University University of Wisconsin–Madison College of Letters and Science |
Scientific career | |
Fields | Statistics |
Institutions | North Carolina State University University of Arizona |
Hao Helen Zhang is a Chinese statistician. She is a professor at the University of Arizona, in the Department of Mathematics, Statistics Interdisciplinary Program, and Applied Mathematics Interdisciplinary Program there.[1] With Bertrand Clarke and Ernest Fokoué, she is the author of the book Principles and Theory for Data Mining and Machine Learning.[2]
Zhang earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics in 1996 from Peking University. She completed her Ph.D. in statistics in 2002 from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.[1] Her dissertation, supervised by Grace Wahba, was Nonparametric Variable Selection and Model Building Via Likelihood Basis Pursuit.[3] She joined the Department of Statistics at North Carolina State University in 2002, and moved to Arizona in 2011.[1]
Zhang was elected to the International Statistical Institute and as a fellow of the American Statistical Association in 2015. She became a fellow in the Institute of Mathematical Statistics in 2016, and has been selected as the 2019 Medallion Lecturer of the Institute of Mathematical Statistics.[1]