Guang
Cheng (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
Current Research
Interest
Convex hull of the following
areas:
1, Asymptotic Statistics, Empirical Processes
2, Semiparametric/Semi-nonparametric Inferences
3, Bootstrap Theory
4, Variable Selection for High Dimensional Data
5, Statistical Inferences under Shape Constraints
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
Single PI: NSF, DMS-0906497,
2009-2012, $100,003
Editorial Work
Associate
Editor for JSPI and JSCS.
Selected Publications
Cheng, G., Huang,
J.Z. and Zhou, L., Efficient
Semiparametric Estimation in Generalized Partially Linear Additive Models for Longitudinal/Clustered Data, Bernoulli, Invited Revision
Cheng, G., Zhou, L., Chen, X.
and Huang, J.Z. Efficient Estimation of Semiparametric Copula Models for Bivariate Survival Data, Submitted
Cheng, G., How Many Iterations are
Sufficient for Efficient Semiparametric Estimation? Scandinavian Journal of Statistics, Invited Revision
Cheng, G., and Zhang, H., Sparse and Efficient Estimation for Partial Spline
Models with Increasing Dimension, Annals
of Institute of Statistical Mathematics, Invited Revision
Leng, C. and Cheng,
G., Discussion on “Probabilistic Index Models” by Thas,
Neve, Clement and Ottoy, JRSS-B
Cheng, G., Yu, Z. and Huang , J.Z. (2012). Bootstrap Consistency for
Longitudinal/Clustered Data Modeled via GEE, Journal of Multivariate Analysis,
Invited Revision
Cheng, G. A Note on Bootstrap Moment Consistency for
Semiparametric M-Estimation, Electronic
Journal of Statistics, Invited Revision
Cheng, G. and Wang, X. (2012), 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, JASA-Theory
& Methods, 106, 1099-1112
Cheng, G. and Huang, J.Z., (2010) Bootstrap Consistency
for General Semiparametric M-estimation Annals of Statistics, 38, 2884-2915
Cheng, G. and Kosorok, M.R. (2009), The
Penalized Profile Sampler Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 100, 345-362
Cheng, G. (2009), Semiparametric Additive
Isotonic Regression Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 139, 1980-1991
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
Talk
Slides
T1. Joint Asymptotics and Inferences for
Semi-Nonparametric Models (04/12/2012). 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
Ritabrata Dutta (co-advised by
Prof. Jayanta Ghosh)
Undergraduate
Zhiyuan Luo
Selected Invited Talk
2012
July 2-4, The
2nd Institute of Mathematical Statistics-Asian Pacific Rim Meeting, Tsukuba,
Japan
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.
