Biography
I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Previously, I was a postdoc researcher at the University of Pennsylvania. I received my Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Research Interests
Our lab aims to bridge the theoretical and empirical boundary of modern statistics and machine learning methods (self-supervised learning, nonparametric and high-dimensional statistics) and advance the practice of statistics in biomedical applications (microbiome and imaging).
Additional Campus Affiliations
Affiliate, Personalized Nutrition Initiative, Carl R. Woese Institute for Genomic Biology
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Recent Publications
Wang, S. (2022). Robust differential abundance test in compositional data. Biometrika. https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/asac029
Wang, S. (Accepted/In press). Self-supervised Metric Learning in Multi-View Data: A Downstream Task Perspective. Journal of the American Statistical Association. https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2022.2057317
Wang, S., Cai, T. T., & Li, H. (2021). Hypothesis testing for phylogenetic composition: a minimum-cost flow perspective. Biometrika, 108(1), 17-36. [asaa061]. https://doi.org/10.1093/biomet/asaa061
Wang, S., & Yuan, M. (2021). Revisiting colocalization via optimal transport. Nature Computational Science, 1(3), 177-178. https://doi.org/10.1038/s43588-021-00046-7
Wang, S., Fan, J., Pocock, G., Arena, E. T., Eliceiri, K. W., & Yuan, M. (2021). Structured correlation detection with application to colocalization analysis in dual-channel fluorescence microscopic imaging. Statistica Sinica, 31(1), 333-360. https://doi.org/10.5705/ss.202018.0230