Areas of Focus
- High-dimensional data analysis
- Missing data analysis
- Causal inference
- Statistical methods in precision agriculture and epidemiological models
Work Experience
- 2023 – Present, Peking University, School of Mathematical Sciences, Researcher
- 2022 – 2023, Iowa State University, Department of Statistics, Associate Professor
- 2018 – 2022, Iowa State University, Department of Statistics, Assistant Professor
- 2014 – 2018, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Department of Statistics, Assistant Professor
Academic Background & Achievements
- 2010 – 2014, PhD in Statistics, Iowa State University
- 2008 – 2010, Master of Economics in Statistics, Peking University
- 2004 – 2008, Bachelor of Science in Statistics, Beijing Normal University
Publications
- Inference on Multi-level Partial Correlations based on Multi-subject Time Series Data, Qiu, Y. and Zhou, X. H., 2022
- Inference of Heterogeneous Treatment Effects for Observational Data with High-Dimensional Covariates, Qiu, Y., Tao, J. and Zhou, X. H., 2021
- Detecting Rare and Faint Signals via Thresholding Maximum Likelihood Estimators, Qiu, Y., Chen, S. X. and Nettleton, D., 2018
- Band Width Selection for High-dimensional Covariance Matrix Estimation, Qiu, Y. and Chen, S. X., 2015
- Test for Bandedness of High-dimensional Covariance Matrices and Bandwidth Estimation, Qiu, Y. and Chen, S. X., 2012
Awards
- Snedecor Award, Department of Statistics, Iowa State University, 2013
- Laha Travel Award, Institute of Mathematical Statistics, 2013
- National First-Class Scholarship, Ministry of Education of China, 2007
