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42
Citations
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World Ranking
1791
National Ranking
767

Overview

Wei Biao Wu is affiliated with the University of Chicago in the United States. Their research spans several disciplines, with a significant focus on fields such as Computer Science, Mathematics, and Economics, Econometrics and Finance. Within these domains, they have contributed notably to subfields including Statistics and Probability, Artificial Intelligence, Finance, Economics and Econometrics, as well as Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty.

Their work covers a diverse set of main topics including Statistical Methods and Inference, Financial Risk and Volatility Modeling, Advanced Statistical Methods and Models, Market Dynamics and Volatility, Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring, Complex Systems and Time Series Analysis, and Stochastic processes and financial applications.

Wei Biao Wu has published extensively in a range of academic venues. Frequent publication outlets include:

  • arXiv (Cornell University)
  • The Annals of Statistics
  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of the American Statistical Association
  • Journal of Econometrics

Their recent papers demonstrate a focus on statistical methodology, stochastic processes, and applications in economics and machine learning. Notable publications include:

  • "Mask and Reason", 2022, Proceedings of the 28th ACM SIGKDD Conference on Knowledge Discovery and Data Mining
  • "Convergence of covariance and spectral density estimates for high-dimensional locally stationary processes", 2021, The Annals of Statistics
  • "Online Covariance Matrix Estimation in Stochastic Gradient Descent", 2021, Journal of the American Statistical Association
  • "Development of a Model Predicting the Outcome of In Vitro Fertilization Cycles by a Robust Decision Tree Method", 2022, Frontiers in Endocrinology
  • "Popularity Bias Is Not Always Evil: Disentangling Benign and Harmful Bias for Recommendation", 2021, arXiv (Cornell University)

The scientist collaborates frequently with a core group of co-authors, reflecting interdisciplinary work:

  • Yanhong Wu
  • Wanrong Zhu
  • Ning Wang
  • Likai Chen
  • Sayar Karmakar

Wei Biao Wu's contributions emphasize rigorous statistical approaches to problems in time series, covariance estimation, and volatility modeling, with applications extending to finance and artificial intelligence. Their publication record reflects engagement with both theoretical and applied research questions across multiple domains within the broader field of statistical science.

Best Publications

  • Nonlinear system theory: Another look at dependence

    Wei Biao Wu

  • Nonparametric estimation of large covariance matrices of longitudinal data

    Wei Biao Wu;Mohsen Pourahmadi

  • STRONG INVARIANCE PRINCIPLES FOR DEPENDENT RANDOM VARIABLES

    Wei Biao Wu

  • Inference of trends in time series

    Wei Biao Wu;Zhibiao Zhao

  • Limit theorems for iterated random functions

    Wei Biao Wu;Xiaofeng Shao

  • Asymptotic spectral theory for nonlinear time series

    Xiaofeng Shao;Wei Biao Wu

  • Gaussian approximation for high dimensional time series

    Danna Zhang;Wei Biao Wu

  • Local linear quantile estimation for nonstationary time series

    Zhou Zhou;Wei Biao Wu

  • Covariance and precision matrix estimation for high-dimensional time series

    Xiaohui Chen;Mengyu Xu;Wei Biao Wu

  • On the Bahadur representation of sample quantiles for dependent sequences

    Wei Biao Wu

  • Asymptotic theory for stationary processes

    Wei Biao Wu

  • BANDING SAMPLE AUTOCOVARIANCE MATRICES OF STATIONARY PROCESSES

    Wei Biao Wu;Mohsen Pourahmadi

  • Kernel density estimation for linear processes

    Wei Biao Wu;Jan Mielniczuk

  • On false discovery control under dependence

    Wei Biao Wu

  • Isotonic regression: Another look at the changepoint problem

    Wei Biao Wu;Michael Woodroofe;Graciela Mentz

  • M-estimation of linear models with dependent errors

    Wei Biao Wu

  • On linear processes with dependent innovations

    Wei Biao Wu;Wanli Min

  • ASYMPTOTICS OF SPECTRAL DENSITY ESTIMATES

    Weidong Liu;Wei Biao Wu

  • Covariance matrix estimation for stationary time series

    Han Xiao;Wei Biao Wu

  • Martingale approximations for sums of stationary processes

    Wei Biao Wu;Michael Woodroofe

  • Efficient estimation of copula-based semiparametric Markov models

    Xiaohong Chen;Wei Biao Wu Wu;Yanping Yi

Frequent Co-Authors

Magda Peligrad
Magda Peligrad University of Cincinnati
Michael Woodroofe
Michael Woodroofe University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Qi-Man Shao
Qi-Man Shao Chinese University of Hong Kong
George Michailidis
George Michailidis University of Florida
Hakan Erdogan
Hakan Erdogan Google (United States)
Jeffrey A. Fessler
Jeffrey A. Fessler University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Naeem Seliya
Naeem Seliya University of Wisconsin–Eau Claire
Martin Kreitman
Martin Kreitman University of Chicago
Wen-Hsiung Li
Wen-Hsiung Li Academia Sinica
David L. Kaplan
David L. Kaplan Tufts University

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