Wei Biao Wu

Wei Biao Wu is a Chinese-born statistician. He is a professor of statistics at the University of Chicago.

Wei Biao Wu
Other namesWei-Biao Wu
Alma mater
Scientific career
FieldsStatistics
InstitutionsUniversity of Chicago
ThesisStudies in time series and random dynamics (2001)
Doctoral advisorsMichael Woodroofe, Sándor Csörgő
Websitehttps://www.stat.uchicago.edu/~wbwu/

Education and career

Wu attended Fudan University, receiving his bachelor's degree in 1997.[1] He went on to the University of Michigan for graduate studies, receiving his Ph.D. in 2001 under the supervision of Michael Woodroofe and Sándor Csörgő.[2] He was hired at the University of Chicago shortly after completing his Ph.D., and has remained there since.

Wu is best-known for his work on dependence, in which the main new idea is to interpret random processes as physical systems, and to examine coefficients that would have physical meaning.[3][4] According to Google Scholar, this work has been cited over 350 times.[5] Wu has written over 100 papers.[6][7]

Publications
  • His most cited article, WB Wu, Nonlinear system theory: Another look at dependence in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2005) has been cited 358 times, according to Google Scholar .[8]
  • Wu WB, Pourahmadi M. Nonparametric estimation of large covariance matrices of longitudinal data. Biometrika. 2003 Dec 1;90(4):831-44.has been cited 296 times [8]
  • Wu WB. Strong invariance principles for dependent random variables. The Annals of Probability. 2007;35(6):2294-320. has been cited 196 times
  • Wu WB, Shao X. Limit theorems for iterated random functions. Journal of Applied Probability. 2004 Jun;41(2):425-36. has been cited 156 times.

Personal life

Wu has practiced Falun Gong since 1998. His religious practices and criticism of the Communist Party of China led to inaction on his 2005 request for renewal of his Chinese passport. Following the loss of his Chinese passport, Wu's Chinese nationality was also revoked.[9]

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References
  1. Wei Biao Wu on LinkedIn
  2. Wei Biao Wu at the Mathematics Genealogy Project
  3. Dedecker, Jérôme; Doukhan, Paul; Lang, Gabriel; León R., José Rafael; Louhichi, Sana; Prieur, Clémentine (2007). Weak dependence : with examples and applications. New York: Springer. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-387-69951-6. MR 2338725. OCLC 191465311.
  4. Wu, W. B. (2005). "Nonlinear system theory: Another look at dependence". Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 102 (40): 14150–14154. doi:10.1073/pnas.0506715102. ISSN 0027-8424. MR 2172215. PMC 1242319. PMID 16179388.
  5. "Google Scholar citations for "Nonlinear systems theory: another look at dependence"". Retrieved September 23, 2019.
  6. "Wei Biao Wu's publication list". Retrieved September 23, 2019.
  7. "Wei Biao Wu author profile". MathSciNet. American Mathematical Society.
  8. Google Scholar Author page, Accessed December 31, 2019
  9. "University of Chicago professor rejected for Chinese passport renewal because he practices Falun Gong". Minghui.org. 20 December 2006. Archived from the original on 31 May 2012. Retrieved 15 October 2019. Alt URL
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