Contact Information
725 S. Wright St.
M/C 374
Champaign, IL 61820
Biography
Assistant Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, 2014 – present
Faculty member, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Gene Networks in Neural Development and Plasticity, 2014 – present
Faculty affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology, Computing Genomes for Reproductive Health, 2014 – present
Postdoctoral researcher, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology & Statistics Department, University of Pennsylvania, 2012 – 2014
Research Interests
Statistical genomics
High-dimensional statistics
Survival analysis
Education
PhD, Biostatistics, Harvard University, 2012
A.M., Statistics, Harvard University, 2007
A.B., Chemistry and Physics, Harvard University, 2007
Additional Campus Affiliations
Affiliate, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
Associate Professor, Biomedical and Translational Sciences
External Links
Recent Publications
Wang, Y., & Zhao, S. D. (2021). A nonparametric empirical Bayes approach to large-scale multivariate regression. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis, 156, [107130]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2020.107130
Zhao, S. D., & Biscarri, W. (Accepted/In press). A Regression Modeling Approach to Structured Shrinkage Estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2021.1875838
Avalos, A., Fang, M., Pan, H., Ramirez Lluch, A., Lipka, A. E., Zhao, S. D., Giray, T., Robinson, G. E., Zhang, G., & Hudson, M. E. (2020). Genomic regions influencing aggressive behavior in honey bees are defined by colony allele frequencies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(29), 17135-17141. https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1922927117
Zhao, S. D., & Nguyen, Y. T. (2020). Nonparametric false discovery rate control for identifying simultaneous signals. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 14(1), 110-142. https://doi.org/10.1214/19-EJS1663
Zhou, R. R., Wang, L., & Zhao, S. D. (2020). Estimation and inference for the indirect effect in high-dimensional linear mediation models. Biometrika, 107(3), 573-589. https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/asaa016