Assistant Professor 
Department of Statistics and Data Science,
National University of Singapore
Email: wanjie.wang(at)nus.edu.sg
Address: Department of Statistics and Data Science
S16-6-101, Science Drive 2
National University of Singapore
Singapore 117546
Tel: 6516-3953
Research Interests:
Social network analysis; High-dimensional statistical inference; unsupervised learning; statistics in psychology.
Past Experiences
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Postdoctoral Researcher with Prof. Hongzhe Li at Dept of Biostatistics and Epidemiology and Tony Cai at Dept of Statistics, University of Pennsylvania, August 2014 – July 2016
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Ph.D. Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, August 2014
Thesis: Clustering with Important Features(IF) PCA
Advisor: Jiashun Jin
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M.S. Dept of Statistics, Carnegie Mellon University, May 2011
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B.S. School of Mathematical Sciences, Peking University, July 2009
Publications:
- Yuehaw, Khoo, Tong, X., Wang, W., and Wang, Y. (2024+) Temporal Label Recovery from Noisy Dynamical Data (arXiv) Submitted.
- Wang, W., Ding X.P. and Zhang, Xinran. (2024+) Detecting Young Children’s Deception Using Facial Expression Analysis with High Dimensional Statistical Methods. Revised and Submitted to Behavior Research Methods
- Tong, X., Wang, W., and Wang, Y. (2024+) Uniform error bound for PCA matrix denoising. (arXiv) Accepted, Bernoulli.
- Hu, Y. and Wang, W. (2024) Network-Adjusted Covariates for Community Detection. To appear. Biometrika. (Journal Advanced Manuscript,arXiv) Package NAC available on CRAN.
- Wang, W., Chen, E., and Li, H. (2023) Truncated Rank-Based Tests for Two-part Models with Excessive Zeros and Applications to Microbiome Data. (website,arXiv) Package ZIR available ( Github) Annals of Applied Statistics, 17:2, 1663-1680.
- Hu, Y., Wang, W., and Yu, Y. (2022) Graph Matching beyond Perfectly-Overlapping Erdös–Rényi Random Graphs. (journal website) Statistics and Computing (2022) 32:19. Package GMPro available on CRAN.
- Wang, J., Wang, W., and Li, H. (2022) Sparse Block Signal Detection and Identification for Shared Cross-Trait Association Analysis. (journal website) Annals of Applied Statistics, 16:2, 866-886.
- Guo, Z., Wang, W., Cai, T. T. and Li, H. (2019). Optimal Estimation of Co-heritability in High-dimensional Linear Models. (website, arXiv). Journal of the American Statistical Association, 114:525, 358-369.
- Jin, J., Ke, Z., and Wang, W. (2017). Phase Transitions for High Dimensional Clustering and Related Problems. (website, arXiv). The Annals of Statistics, 45(5), 2151-2189.
- Jin, J., and Wang, W. (2016). Influential Features PCA for High Dimensional Clustering (with Discussion). (website, arXiv, Rejoinder). The Annals of Statistics, 44(6), 2323-2359.
- Wang, W., Tripathy, S.J., Padmanabhan, K., Urban, N.N., and Kass, R.E. (2015). An Empirical Model for Reliable Spiking Activity. (website, pdf) Neural Computation, 27(8), 1609-1623.