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 Data Analysis, Machine Learning, Model Selection, Nonparametetric and Semiparametric Statistics.

Teaching

• Current semester (Spring 2012): ST 790-002 - Nonparametric Regression and Smoothing.


• ST 370 - Probability and Statistics for Engineers:
      Fall 2008, Spring 2009, Fall 2009, Spring 2010


• ST 372 - Introduction to Statistical Inference and Regression:
      Fall 2010


• ST 521 - Statistical Theory I:
      Fall 2011

Selected Publications

• Liu, Yufeng, Zhang, Hao Helen, and Wu, Yichao (2011). Soft or hard classification? Large margin unified machines. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 106, 166-177.
• Wu, Yichao (2011). An ordinary differential equation-based solution path algorithm . Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, 23, 185-199.
• Wu, Yichao, Zhang, Hao Helen, and Liu, Yufeng (2010). Robust Model-free Multiclass Probability Estimation. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 105, 424-436.
• Wu, Yichao, Fan, Jianqing, and Müller, Hans-Georg (2010). Varying-coefficient functional linear regression. Bernoulli, 16, 730-758. Detailed Auxiliary Result and Proofs
• Fan, Jianqing, Wu, Yichao, and Feng, Yang (2009). Local quasi-likelihood with a parametric guide. Annals of Statistics, 37, 4153-4183.
• 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.
• Wu, Yichao and Liu, Yufeng (2007). Robust truncated-hinge-loss support vector machines. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 102, 479, 974-983.

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Selected Awards

• NCSU Sigma Xi Faculty Research Award, 2011.


• Faculty Early Career Development (CAREER) Award, National Science Foundation, 2011-2016.


• PI on National Institute of Health (NIH)/National Cancer Institute (NCI) R01 Grant, 2010-2015.


• Faculty Research & Professional Development Award, North Carolina State University, 2009.


• Laha Travel Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2007.

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