Working & Education

2017 -- Present    Professor, The School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China

2015 -- 2017       Associate Professor, The School of Management, University of Science and Technology of China

2010 -- 2015       Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics, University of Southern California

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

Research Interests

High-dimensional statistical inference, variable selection, classification and the related big data problems

Honors & Awards

Junior Faculty Career Award, Overseas Alumni Foundation, 2018

Forbes U30 (30 Under 30) China List, 2017

CAMS Prize for Excellence in Research, 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

Representative Publications

Zheng, Z., Lv, J. and Lin, W. (2020). Nonsparse learning with latent variables. Operations Research, to appear.

Zheng, Z., Bahadori, M. T., Liu, Y. and Lv, J. (2019). Scalable interpretable multi-response regression via SEED. Journal of Machine Learning Research 20, 1-34.

Zheng, Z., Li, Y., Yu, C., Li, G.  (2018). Balanced estimation for high-dimensional measurement error models. Computational Statistics & Data Analysis 126, 78-91.

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.