Education

2010 -- 2015  Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics (with concentration in Statistics), University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

2006 -- 2010  B.S. in Mathematics and Applied Mathematics, University of Science and Technology of China, China

Research Interests

High-dimensional statistical inference, Variable selection, Classification, Big data problems

Honors and Awards

Prize for Excellence in Research (with a substantial Mathematical Component), Center for Applied Mathematical Sciences, University of Southern California, 2015

IMS Travel Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2014

Merit Fellowship, USC Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences, 2012-2013

Publications

Kong, Y., Zheng, Z. and Lv, J. (2016). The constrained Dantzig selector with enhanced consistency. Journal of Machine Learning Research 17(124), 1-22.

Fan, Y., Kong, Y., Li, D. and Zheng, Z. (2015). Innovated interaction screening for high-dimensional nonlinear classification. The Annals of Statistics 43, 1243-1272.

Zheng, Z., Fan, Y. and Lv, J. (2014). High-dimensional thresholded regression and shrinkage effect. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B 76, 627-649.

Lv, J. and Zheng, Z. (2014). Discussion: A significance test for the Lasso. The Annals of Statistics 42, 493-500.