Bio
Dr. Zhengyuan Zhu is the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Dean's Professor, Director of the Center for Survey Statistics Methodology, and Professor of Statistics in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University. He received his B.S. in Mathematics from Fudan University and Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Chicago. His research interests include spatial statistics, survey statistics, machine learning, statistical data integration, and applications in environmental science, agriculture, remote sensing, and official statistics. He is a fellow of the American Statistics Association, and an elected member of the International Statistical Institute.