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Runze Li

Runze Li

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  • Professor of Statistics and Professor of Public Health Sciences
413 Thomas Building
University Park, PA 16802
Phone: (814) 865-1555

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Education

  1. Ph.D. in Statistics, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2000

Biography:

Academic Positions:

  • Full professor since 2008, Penn State University
  • Associate Professor from 2005 to 2008, Penn State University
  • Assistant Professor from 2000 to 2005, Penn State University

Editorial Service:

  • Associate Editor of Annals of Statistics (2007 - present)
  • Associate Editor of Journal of American Statistical Association (2006 - present)
  • Associate Editor of Statistica Sinica (2005 -present)

Organization of professional conferences:

  • IMS program chair for ENAR 2005, Austin, Texas
  • ASA Biometrics Section program chair for JSM 2007, Salt Lake City, Utah
  • Co-chair scientific program committee for the first IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting in 2009, Seoul, Korea
  • Program committee member of ICSA 2011 Applied Statistics Symposium, NYC, NY
  • Co-chair scientific program committee for the second IMS Asia Pacific Rim Meeting in 2012, Tokyo, Japan

Other professional service:

  • ASA Biometrics section executive committee member, 2006-2008
  • Directors of ICSA board, 2007-2009
  • Panelists for DMS and NIH grant review sessions
  • Co-chair of the IMS committee on Asia Pacific Rim meeting, 2007-2012
  • Committee member on federally funded research of ASA, 2010-2012

Selected Publications

My top 10 cited statistical papers from google scholar (as to 11/15/2011):

  • Fan, J. and Li, R. (2001). Variable selection via nonconcave penalized likelihood and its oracle properties. Journal of American Statistical Association, 96, 1348-1360. [pdf]. Cited by 1012 times.
  • Cai, Z, Fan, J. and Li, R. (2000). Efficient estimation and inferences for varying-coefficient models. Journal of American Statistical Association, 95, 888-902. [pdf]. Cited by 181 times.
  • Zou, H. and Li, R. (2008). One-step sparse estimates in nonconcave penalized likelihood models (with discussion). Annals of Statistics. 36, 1509-1566. [pdf] and [Rejoinder]. Cited by 180 times.
  • Fan, J. and Li, R. (2002) Variable selection for Cox's proportional hazards model and frailty model. Annals of Statistics, 30, 74-99. [pdf]. Cited by 142 times.
  • Fan, J. and Li, R. (2004). New estimation and model selection procedures for semiparametric modeling in longitudinal data analysis. Journal of American Statistical Association, 99, 710-723. [pdf]. Cited by 135 times.
  • Hunter, D. R. and Li, R. (2005). Variable selection using MM algorithms. Annals of Statistics, 33, 1617-1642. [pdf]. Cited by 122 times.
  • Fan, J. and Li, R. (2006). Statistical challenges with high-dimensionality: feature selection in knowledge discovery. Proceedings of International Congress of Mathematicians, Vol. III, 595-622. [pdf]. Cited by 104 times.
  • Wang, H., Li, R. and Tsai, C.-L. (2007). Tuning parameter selectors for the smoothly clipped absolute deviation method. Biometrika. 94, 553-568. [pdf]. Cited by 88 times.
  • Li, R. and Liang, H. (2008). Variable selection in semiparametric regression modeling. Annals of Statistics, 36, 261-286. [pdf]. Cited by 64 times.
  • Fan, J. Huang, T. and Li, R. (2007). Analysis of longitudinal data with semiparametric estimation of covariance function. Journal of American Statistical Association, 102, 632-641. [pdf]. Cited by 60 times.

Updated Google Scholar citations.

See more of my publications at my personal website: http://sites.stat.psu.edu/~rli/.

 

Research Interests

  • Variable selection for high-dimensional data
  • Feature screening for ultrahigh-dimensinal data
  • Longitudinal and intensive longitudinal data analysis
  • Nonparametric regression modeling and local polynomial regression
  • Semiparametric regression modeling
  • Statistical genetics and bioinformatics
  • Statistical applications to engineering, meteorological research, neural science research and social and behavioral science research

Honors and Awards

  • NSF Career Award, 2004
  • Fellow, Institute of Mathematical Statistics
  • Fellow, American Statistical Association
  • The United Nations' World Meteorological Organization Gerbier-Mumm International Award for 2012

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