Mingyuan Zhang

        Second Year PHD Student

        Department of Statistics

        The Wharton School

        University of Pennsylvania

last updated: 09/06/2007

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    Contact:

    Email: zhangmi at wharton dot upenn dot edu

    Office:  431.2 Huntsman Hall

    Office Phone: (215) 573 0536

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Current Courses:

Stat 921 Experimental Design & Observational Studies

Stat 953 Bioinformatics

Stat 999 Independent Study: Causal Inference in Longitudinal Data (with Prof. Small)

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    Current TA Course:

    Stat 621 Business Analysis Using Regression   

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About Myself:

My name is Mingyuan Zhang. I was born in Lanzhou, a city located in the northwest of China. After high school, I went to Beijing and attended Peking University, which is famous for a lake in campus, called No-Name Lake. Then, I came to Philadelphia, and hope to graduate as PHD in statistics.

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Current Project:

Causal inference.

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Interests (Research and Non-research):

See Interests page.

Interesting Courses: Nonparametric Function Estimation; Shrinkage; Econometrics;

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Finished Courses:

(Spring 2007)

Stat 927 Bayesian Statistics

Stat 956 Financial Time Series and Computational Statistics

FNCE 921 Introductory Emperical Finance

    (Fall 2006)

    Stat 552 Advanced Topics in Mathematical Statistics

    BSTA 790 Causal Inference

    FNCE 911 Financial Economics

    (Spring 2006)

    Stat 531 Stochastic Process

    Stat 541 Applied Statistics

    Stat 551 Linear Models

    (Fall 2005)

    Stat 530 Probability

    Stat 540 Statistical Computation

    Stat 550 Mathematical Statistics

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    Teaching Experiences:

    Spring 2007: TA for Stat 531/Math 547 Stochastic Process

Fall 2006: TA for Stat 111 Introductory Statistics

    Spring 2006: TA for Stat 101 Introductory Business Statistics

    Fall 2005: TA for Stat 101 Introductory Business Statistics

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    Useful Links:

Statistics Department in Wharton

Link to my fellow students and professors

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Others:

How to call R functions in C and how to call C functions in R (to be constructed)