Zhiliang Ying Explained

Zhiliang Ying
Birth Place:Shanghai, China
Nationality:American
Field:Statistics
Work Institutions:Columbia University
Alma Mater:Columbia University
Fudan University
Doctoral Advisor:Tze Leung Lai
Thesis Title:Recursive Estimation and Adaptive Control in Stochastic Linear Systems
Thesis Year:1987

Zhiliang Ying (; born April 1960) is a Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics, Columbia University.[1] He served as co-chair of the department.[2]

He received his PhD from Columbia University in 1987, with Tze Leung Lai as his doctoral advisor. He was the Director of the Institute of Statistics at Rutgers University from 1997 to 2001. His wide research interests cover Survival Analysis, Sequential Analysis, Longitudinal Data Analysis, Stochastic Processes, Semiparametric Inference, Biostatistics and Educational Statistics. He is a co-editor of Statistica Sinica and has been Associate Editor of JASA, Statistica Sinica, Annals of Statistics, Biometrics, and Lifetime Data Analysis.

Ying has supervised, collaborated with and encouraged many researchers. He has written or co-authored more than 100 research articles in professional journals.

Selected honours and awards

Selected papers

Notes and References

  1. http://www.stat.columbia.edu/~zying/ Official web page at Columbia
  2. https://web.archive.org/web/20140201220903/http://icsa.org/awards/distinguish/2007.html International Chinese Statistical Association