Zhimei Ren

Zhimei Ren
  • Assistant Professor of Statistics and Data Science

Contact Information

  • office Address:

    317 Academic Research Building
    265 South 37th Street
    Philadelphia, PA 19104

Research Interests: Distribution-free inference, multiple hypothesis testing, data-driven decision making, causal inference, survival analysis

Overview

Education

Ph.D. in Statistics, Stanford University, 2021
Advisors: Emmanuel Candès

B.S. in Statistics, Peking University, 2016

Academic Positions Held

Postdoctoral Researcher, University of Chicago, 2021-2023

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Teaching

Current Courses (Fall 2023)

  • STAT4310 - Statistical Inference

    Graphical displays; one- and two-sample confidence intervals; one- and two-sample hypothesis tests; one- and two-way ANOVA; simple and multiple linear least-squares regression; nonlinear regression; variable selection; logistic regression; categorical data analysis; goodness-of-fit tests. A methodology course. This course does not have business applications but has significant overlap with STAT 1010 and 1020. This course may be taken concurrently with the prerequisite with instructor permission.

    STAT4310001 ( Syllabus )

    STAT4310002 ( Syllabus )

All Courses

  • STAT4310 - Statistical Inference

    Graphical displays; one- and two-sample confidence intervals; one- and two-sample hypothesis tests; one- and two-way ANOVA; simple and multiple linear least-squares regression; nonlinear regression; variable selection; logistic regression; categorical data analysis; goodness-of-fit tests. A methodology course. This course does not have business applications but has significant overlap with STAT 1010 and 1020. This course may be taken concurrently with the prerequisite with instructor permission.

Awards and Honors

  • Rising Star in Data Science, University of Chicago, 2022
  • Waterloo Student Conference Presentation Award, University of Waterloo, 2021
  • First Prize of the 2018 Citadel Datathon, Stanford University, 2018

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