Contact Information
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Champaign, IL 61820
Biography
2017 - Course Associate Director, Carle Illinois College of Medicine, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
2016 - Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
2015 - Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
2013 - 2015 Postdoctoral Associate, Biostatistics, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Research Interests
Random Forests and Trees
Machine Learning
Personalized Medicine
Survival Analysis
Sufficient Dimension Reduction
High-dimensional Data
Biomedical Applications
Education
PhD, Biostatistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2013
MA., Statistics, Bowling Green State University, 2008
B.S., Mathematics, Nanjing University, 2006
B.S., Financial Engineering, Nanjing University, 2005
Additional Campus Affiliations
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Assistant Professor, National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA)
Assistant Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
External Links
Recent Publications
Li, Y., Zhu, R., Yeh, M., & Qu, A. (Accepted/In press). Dermoscopic Image Classification with Neural Style Transfer. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1080/10618600.2022.2061496
Li, K., Yao, S., Zhang, Z., Cao, B., Wilson, C. M., Kalos, D., Kuan, P. F., Zhu, R., & Wang, X. (2022). Efficient gradient boosting for prognostic biomarker discovery. Bioinformatics, 38(6), 1631-1638. https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btab869
Loyal, J. D., Zhu, R., Cui, Y., & Zhang, X. (Accepted/In press). Dimension Reduction Forests: Local Variable Importance Using Structured Random Forests. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics. https://doi.org/10.1080/10618600.2022.2069777
D'Agnillo, F., Walters, K. A., Xiao, Y., Sheng, Z. M., Scherler, K., Park, J., Gygli, S., Rosas, L. A., Sadtler, K., Kalish, H., Blatti, C. A., Zhu, R., Gatzke, L., Bushell, C., Memoli, M. J., O'Day, S. J., Fischer, T. D., Hammond, T. C., Lee, R. C., ... Taubenberger, J. K. (2021). Lung epithelial and endothelial damage, loss of tissue repair, inhibition of fibrinolysis, and cellular senescence in fatal COVID-19. Science Translational Medicine, 13(620), [abj7790]. https://doi.org/10.1126/scitranslmed.abj7790
Guo, B., Holscher, H. D., Auvil, L. S., Welge, M. E., Bushell, C. B., Novotny, J. A., Baer, D. J., Burd, N. A., Khan, N. A., & Zhu, R. (Accepted/In press). Estimating Heterogeneous Treatment Effect on Multivariate Responses Using Random Forests. Statistics in Biosciences. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12561-021-09310-w