2026 Xiaotong Shen: Mathematics Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

D-Index & Metrics

Discipline name	D-Index	World Ranking	Current World Ranking	National Ranking	Current National Ranking	Publications	Citations
Mathematics	45	1468	1263	644	515	136	8412
Engineering and Technology	46	5140	4950	1461	1350	148	8444

Discipline name

D-Index

World Ranking

Current World Ranking

National Ranking

Current National Ranking

Publications

Citations

Mathematics

1468

1263

644

515

136

8412

Engineering and Technology

5140

4950

1461

1350

148

8444

Mathematics

D-Index

Citations

8412

World Ranking

1468

National Ranking

644

Engineering and Technology

D-Index

Citations

8444

World Ranking

5140

National Ranking

1461

Research.com Recognitions

2011 - Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)
2006 - Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA)

Overview

Xiaotong Shen is affiliated with the University of Minnesota in the United States. Their primary research is situated within the field of Biochemistry, Genetics, and Molecular Biology, with a focus spanning several subfields including Molecular Biology, Artificial Intelligence, Genetics, Materials Chemistry, and Biomedical Engineering.

Their research covers various main topics, including:

Bioinformatics and Genomic Networks
Genetic Associations and Epidemiology
Advanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniques
RNA Interference and Gene Delivery
Statistical Methods and Inference
Bayesian Modeling and Causal Inference
Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals

Recent publications by Xiaotong Shen include:

"Constrained maximum likelihood-based Mendelian randomization robust to both correlated and uncorrelated pleiotropic effects," 2021, The American Journal of Human Genetics
"The involvement of TNF-α and TNF-β as proinflammatory cytokines in lymphocyte-mediated adaptive immunity of Nile tilapia by initiating apoptosis," 2020, Developmental & Comparative Immunology
"Deep reinforcement learning for personalized treatment recommendation," 2022, Statistics in Medicine
"Immobilization of laccase by 3D bioprinting and its application in the biodegradation of phenolic compounds," 2020, International Journal of Biological Macromolecules
"Fluorescence resonance energy transfer-based nanomaterials for the sensing in biological systems," 2021, Chinese Chemical Letters

Xiaotong Shen frequently publishes in venues such as:

arXiv (Cornell University)
Journal of the American Statistical Association
bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
Chinese Chemical Letters
International Journal of Biological Macromolecules

Throughout their career, Xiaotong Shen has collaborated often with coauthors including Wei Pan, Jin Ouyang, Na Na, Chunlin Li, and Ben Dai.

Awards recognizing their contributions include:

Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), 2011
Fellow of the American Statistical Association (ASA), 2006

Best Publications

Convergence Rate of Sieve Estimates

Xiaotong Shen;Wing Hung Wong

515
Citations
Probability inequalities for likelihood ratios and convergence rates of sieve MLEs

Wing Hung Wong;Xiaotong Shen

382
Citations
Local Asymptotics for Regression Splines and Confidence Regions

S. Zhou;X. Shen;D.A. Wolfe

379
Citations
On methods of sieves and penalization

Xiaotong Shen

376
Citations
Penalized Model-Based Clustering with Application to Variable Selection

Wei Pan;Xiaotong Shen

369
Citations
Rates of convergence of posterior distributions

Xiaotong Shen;Larry Wasserman

357
Citations
Sieve extremum estimates for weakly dependent data

Xiaohong Chen;Xiaotong Shen

353
Citations
Constrained maximum likelihood-based Mendelian randomization robust to both correlated and uncorrelated pleiotropic effects.

Haoran Xue;Xiaotong Shen;Wei Pan

342
Citations
Likelihood-based selection and sharp parameter estimation.

Xiaotong Shen;Wei Pan;Yunzhang Zhu

319
Citations
Adaptive Model Selection

Xiaotong Shen;Jianming Ye

278
Citations
On ψ-Learning

Xiaotong Shen;George C Tseng;Xuegong Zhang;Wing Hung Wong

255
Citations
A Powerful and Adaptive Association Test for Rare Variants

Wei Pan;Junghi Kim;Yiwei Zhang;Xiaotong T Shen

193
Citations
Multicategory ψ-Learning

Yufeng Liu;Xiaotong Shen

192
Citations
Spatially Adaptive Regression Splines and Accurate Knot Selection Schemes

Shanggang Zhou;Xiaotong Shen

173
Citations
Grouping Pursuit Through a Regularization Solution Surface

Xiaotong Shen;Hsin Cheng Huang

157
Citations
Incorporating Predictor Network in Penalized Regression with Application to Microarray Data

Wei Pan;Benhuai Xie;Xiaotong Shen

151
Citations
Network-based support vector machine for classification of microarray samples

Yanni Zhu;Xiaotong T Shen;Wei Pan

150
Citations
Feature grouping and selection over an undirected graph

Sen Yang;Lei Yuan;Ying-Cheng Lai;Xiaotong Shen

148
Citations
Multicategory ψ-Learning and Support Vector Machine: Computational Tools

Yufeng Liu;Xiaotong Shen;Hani Doss

134
Citations
Proportional odds regression and sieve maximum likelihood estimation

Xiaotong Shen

122
Citations
Penalized model-based clustering with unconstrained covariance matrices.

Hui Zhou;Wei Pan;Xiaotong Shen

120
Citations
Asymptotic normality of semiparametric and nonparametric posterior distributions

Xiaotong Shen

117
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Wei Pan University of Minnesota

Jieping Ye Alibaba Group (China)

Wing Hung Wong Stanford University

Mohamed Nounou Texas A&M University at Qatar

Bhavik R. Bakshi The Ohio State University

Peter Wonka King Abdullah University of Science and Technology

Larry Wasserman Carnegie Mellon University

Ying-Cheng Lai Arizona State University

Xuegong Zhang Tsinghua University

Bryon A. Mueller University of Minnesota

External Links

Personal website of Xiaotong Shen Google Scholar page

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