Guang
Cheng (程光)
(Graphical Representation)
Assistant Professor
Department of
Office: MATH 512
E-mail: chengg at stat dot purdue dot edu
Phone: 765-496-9549
Education
Ph.D.
Advisor: Michael Kosorok
Tsinghua University
School of Economics and Management
B.A. in Economics, September, 1998 – July, 2002
Recent Research
Interest
1, Joint Asymptotics in Semi-Nonparametric Models
2,
Empirical Processes, Bootstrap Theory
3, High-Dimensional
Inference and Sparsity in Semiparametric Models
4, Statistical Inferences under Shape
Constraints
5, Statistical Applications to Soil Sciences and Astronomy
Research
Assistantship Available
One or two RA positions are available for PhD
students in the above research areas. These positions are funded by
National Science Foundation in the
Division of Mathematical Sciences (DMS). If you are interested in these
positions, please send your CV to chengg@purdue.edu, or stop by my
office.
Award
Noether Young
Scholar Award, 2012
Funding
NSF CAREER Award:
DMS-1151692,
2012-2017, $400,000
NSF
DMS-0906497, 2009-2012, $100,003, Sole PI
Editorial Work
Associate
Editor for Journal
of Statistical Planning and Inference and Electronic Journal of Statistics
Selected Publications
Cheng, G. and Kosorok, M.R. (2008), Higher Order Semiparametric Frequentist
Inference with the Profile Sampler Annals of Statistics, 36,
1786-1818
Cheng, G. and Kosorok, M.R. (2008), General Frequentist Properties of the Posterior Profile
Distribution Annals of Statistics, 36, 1819-1853
Cheng, G. (2009), Semiparametric
Additive Isotonic Regression Journal of Statistical Planning and
Inference, 139, 1980-1991
Cheng, G. and Huang,
J.Z., (2010) Bootstrap
Consistency for General Semiparametric M-estimation Annals
of Statistics, 38, 2884-2915
Cheng,
G. and Wang, X.
(2011), Semiparametric Additive Transformation Models
under Current Status Data, Electronic
Journal of Statistics, 5, 1735-1764
Zhang, H., Cheng, G. and Liu,
Y., (2011) Linear or Nonlinear? Automatic Discovery for
Partially Linear Models, Supplementary, JASA-Theory & Methods, 106,
1099-1112
Leng,
C. and Cheng, G., (2012) Discussion
on “Probabilistic Index Models” by Thas, Neve, Clement and Ottoy, JRSS-B,
74, 661-662
Cheng,
G., Zhou, L. and Huang, J.Z. (2012) Efficient
Semiparametric Estimation in Generalized Partially Linear Additive Models for Longitudinal/Clustered Data,
Bernoulli, To Appear
Cheng, G.,
Yu, Z*. and Huang, J.Z. (2013). The Cluster Bootstrap Consistency in Generalized
Estimating Equations, Journal
of Multivariate Analysis, 115, 33-47 *: PhD student
Cheng, G. (2012). How Many Iterations are Sufficient for Efficient
Semiparametric Estimation?, Supplementary, Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, To
Appear
Collaborative Research
Liang, C., Cheng, G., Wixon, D. and Balse, T. (2011) An Absorbing Markov Chain Approach to
Understanding the Microbial Role in Soil Carbon Stabilization, Biogeochemistry, 106, 303-309
Manuscript
Local
and Global Asymptotic Inferences for the Smoothing Spline Estimate
Talk Slides
T1. The Long March Towards Joint Asymptotics: My 1st
Steps…. Link
T2. Bootstrap
Consistency for General Semiparametric M-Estimate. Link
T3.How Many Iterations are Sufficient
for Semiparametric Estimation? Link
T4. Inverse Problems
in Semiparametric Statistical Models. Link
Teaching
Stat 695R:
Asymptotic Statistics and Empirical Processes
PhD Students
Wei Sun
Ritabrata Dutta (2008-2012,
co-advised by Prof. Jayanta Ghosh),
Currently Postdoc Fellow
Master
Ching-Wei Cheng
Undergraduate
Zhiyuan Luo
Selected Invited Talk
2013
October, Applicable Semiparametrics
Conference, Berlin, German
June, The 4th IMS-China International
Conference, Chengdu, China
May, Department of Statistics, Virginia Tech Univ., Blacksburg, VA
March, Data Seminar, Duke University,
Durham, NC
2012
July 2-4, The 2nd Institute of
Mathematical Statistics-Asian Pacific Rim Meeting, Tsukuba, Japan
June 5-7, Conference on Statistical Learning and data Mining, Ann Arbor, MI
April 12, Dept of Statistics and
Actuarial Science, University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
April 5, IAMCS, Texas A&M
University, College Station, TX
2011
Sept 23, Dept. of
Math., IUPUI, Indianapolis, IN.
June 26-29, ICSA 2011, Applied
Statistics Symposium, NYC
May 23-27, Applied Inverse Problems
Conference, College Station, TX
March 9, Department of Statistics,
Northwestern University, Chicago, IL
2010
July 31-August 5, Section of
Nonparametric Statistics, JSM
June 20-23, Session of Semiparametric
Modelling, ICSA, Applied Statistics Symposium
May 14, Department of Biostatistics
and Medical Informatics, University of Wisconsin-Madison
March 12, Department of Statistics,
University of Michigan
March 25-26, Conference on Resampling
Methods and High Dimensional Data, Texas A&M University
2009
October, Department of Statistics,
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
September, Department of Mathematics,
Statistics and Computer Science, University of Illinois at Chicago
August, Section of Nonparametric
Statistics, JSM
June, National Center for Atmospheric
Research (NCAR)
May, Symposium on New Directions in
Asymptotic Statistics, University of Georgia
April, Department of Statistics, Penn
State University
2008-2007
Watson Research Center, IBM; Texas
A&M University; Rutgers University; University of Iowa; Purdue University;
Michigan State University; UC-Berkeley; North Carolina State University; Iowa State
University; Indiana University; 10th New Researcher Conference; 2007
Nonparametric Conference at University of South Carolina; University of
Bristol; Temple University; University of Oxford; HongKong
University; University of Georgia; National University of Singapore;
SAMSI.
