Xiaotong T Shen

Contact Me

xshen@umn.edu

School of Statistics
384 Ford Hall

224 Church St SE

Affiliations

• Statistics, School of
• Liberal Arts: Statistics

Educational Background & Specialties

Educational Background

• Ph.D.: Statistics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, 1991.

Specialties

• Statistical learning and data mining
• Statistical applications in engineering and health science.
• Nonparametric and semiparametric modeling

Courses Taught

• Statistical Learning and Data mining

Research & Professional Activities

Professional Activities

• Chair-Elect, the American Statistical Association’s Section on Statistical Learning and Data Mining: 2012
• Program Co-Chair, Institute of Mathematical Statistics: 2009
• Editorial board: Journal of Machine Learning Research, Journal of American Statistical Association, Annals of Statistics, Electric Journal of Statistics, Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, Statistics Survery , 2007 - present
• Panel, the National Science Foundation: 2001 - present

Publications

• Rates of convergence of posterior distributions: Shen, Xiaotong, L. Wasserman, The Annals of Statistics, 2001.
• On psi-learning: Shen, Xiaotong, G., Tseng, Zhang, X., Wong, W.,, Journal of the American Statistical Association, 2003.
• Optimal model assessment, selection and combination. Shen, Xiaotong, Huang, H. , Author, 2006.
• Grouping pursuit through a regularization surface: Shen, Xiaotong, Huang, H.S., American Statistical Association, Journal of the American Statistical Association}, 105 727–739, 2010.

Awards

• John Black Johnston Distinguished Professorship, 2012
• Scholar of the College, College of Liberal Arts, University of Minnesota, 2012
• The Best Paper Award, the International Biometric Society, 2012
• Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, 2011
• American Statistical Association fellow, 2006
• Elected Member, International Statistical Institute, 2006
• Institute of Mathematical Statistics fellow, 2004