The laws of probability, so true in general, so fallacious in particular. 
                                                      --Edward Gibbon


Yichao Wu
Assistant Professor
 Phone: (919) 513-7677
Department of Statistics
Office: 4274 SAS Hall
North Carolina State University
E-mail:

General Info

Dr. Wu recieved his Ph.D. in Statistics from The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in May 2006. He took a postdoctoral position at Princeton University from August 2006 to July 2008. In August 2008, he joined North Carolina State Univesity as an Assistant Professor. His current research interests include: Longitudinal Analysis, Machine Learning, Model Selection, Nonparametetric and Semiparametric Statistics.

Journal Publications

  • Wu, Yichao, Zhang, Hao Helen, and Liu, Yufeng. Robust Model-free Multiclass Probability Estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, to appear.
  • Wu, Yichao and Li, Lexin. Asymptotic Properties of Sufficient Dimension Reduction with A Diverging Number of Predictors. Statistica Sinica, to appear.
  • Wu, Yichao, Fan, Jianqing, and Müller, Hans-Georg. Varying-coefficient functional linear regression. Bernoulli, to appear. Detailed Auxiliary Result and Proofs
  • Zhu, Zhengyuan and Wu, Yichao. Estimation and prediction of a class of convolution-based spatial nonstationary models for large spatial data. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, to appear.
  • Fan, Jianqing, Richard Samworth, and Wu, Yichao (2009). Ultrahigh dimensional feature selection: beyond the linear model. Journal of Machine Learning Research, 10, 1829-1853.
  • Wu, Yichao and Liu, Yufeng (2009). Stepwise Multiple Quantile Regression Estimation using Non-crossing Constraints. Statistics and Its Interface, 2, 299-310.
  • Wu, Yichao and Liu, Yufeng. Non-crossing large-margin probability estimation and its application to robust SVM via preconditioning. Statistical Methodology, to appear.
  • Fan, Jianqing, Wu, Yichao, and Feng, Yang (2009). Local quasi-likelihood with a parametric guide. Annals of Statistics, 37, 4153-4183.
  • Fan, Jianqing, Feng, Yang, and Wu, Yichao (2009). Network exploration via the adaptive LASSO and SCAD penalties. Annals of Applied Statistics, 3, 2, 521-541.
  • Ribeiro, Carla, Hurd, Harry, Wu, Yichao, Braun, Mary, Jones, Lisa, Brighton, Brian, Boucher, Richard and O'Neal, Wanda (2009). Azithromycin Alters the Gene Expression and Inflammatory Responses of Human Airway Epithelia. PLoS ONE, 4(6).
  • Wu, Yichao and Liu, Yufeng (2009). Variable selection in quantile regression. Statistica Sinica, 19, 801-817.
  • Fan, Jianqing and Wu, Yichao (2008). Semiparametric estimation of covariance matrices for longitudinal data. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 103, 484, 1520-1533.
  • Zhang, Hao Helen, Liu, Yufeng, Wu, Yichao, and Zhu, Ji (2008). Variable selection for the multicategory SVM via sup-norm regularization. Electronic Journal of Statistics, 2, 149-167.
  • Wu, Yichao and Liu, Yufeng (2007). Robust truncated-hinge-loss support vector machines. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102, 479, 974-983.
  • Liu, Yufeng and Wu, Yichao (2007). Variable selection via a combination of the L0 and L1 penalties. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics, 16, 4, 782-798.
  • Liu, Yufeng and Wu, Yichao (2006). Optimizing psi-learning via mixed integer programming. Statistica Sinica, 16, 2, 441-457.
Conference proceedings

  • Wu, Yichao and Liu, Yufeng (2007). On Multicategory Truncated-Hinge-Loss Support Vector Machines. Contemporary Mathematics, 443, 49-58.
Teaching

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