Contact Information
725 S. Wright St.
M/C 374
Champaign, IL 61820
Biography
2016 – Present: Full Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2016 – Present: Ph.D. Program Director, Department of Statistics
2006 – 2016: Assistant/Associate Professor, Department of Statistics, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Research Interests
Long memory and nonlinear time series
Spatial statistics
Spectral analysis
Environmental Statistics
Econometrics
Functional data analysis
High dimensional data analysis
Resampling methods
Time series analysis
Applications in atmospheric science, economics, finance and neuroscience
Education
PhD, Statistics, University of Chicago, 2006
Grants
NSF-CMG0724752 (co-PI)
NSF-DMS0804937 (PI)
NSF-DMS1104545 (PI)
NSF-DMS1407037 (PI)
NSF-DMS1607489 (PI)
Research Board at UIUC
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Honors & Awards
The Tjalling C. Koopmans Econometric Theory Prize, 2009 (with Wei Biao Wu)
Arnold O. Beckman Research Award, UIUC 2010 Econometric Theory Multa Scripist Award, 2011.
Centennial Scholar, College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, 2013-2016
Recent Publications
Chang, J., Jiang, Q., & Shao, X. (2023). Testing the martingale difference hypothesis in high dimension. Journal of Econometrics, 235(2), 972-1000. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2022.09.001
Jiang, F., Wang, R., & Shao, X. (2023). Robust inference for change points in high dimension. Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 193, Article 105114. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jmva.2022.105114
Jiang, F., Zhao, Z., & Shao, X. (2023). Time series analysis of COVID-19 infection curve: A change-point perspective. Journal of Econometrics, 232(1), 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeconom.2020.07.039
He, X., & Shao, X. (2022). A Conversation with Stephen Portnoy. Statistical Science, 37(3), 443-454. https://doi.org/10.1214/21-STS845
Jiang, F., Zhao, Z., & Shao, X. (2022). Jiang, Zhao and Shao's reply to the Discussion of ‘The First Discussion Meeting on Statistical Aspects of the Covid-19 Pandemic’. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society, 185(4), 1849-1854. https://doi.org/10.1111/rssa.12940