Ruoqing Zhu
PhD Program Director at University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, Illinois, United States
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Top SchoolRuoqing Zhu is an Associate Professor and PhD Program Director in the Department of Statistics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with nine years of academic experience and a PhD in Biostatistics from UNC-Chapel Hill. Her research and teaching focus on machine learning, empirical processes, survival analysis, tree-based methods, and reinforcement learning, bringing rigorous statistical theory to practical, data-driven problems. She has held interdisciplinary affiliations across supercomputing, genomics, and medical education, reflecting a knack for bridging methodological innovation with domain applications. Prior roles include a Yale postdoc and industry-facing work on trial design and PK/PD modeling, which inform her collaborative, translational approach. As an advisory board member for a health-tech startup, she actively translates research into applied tools beyond academia. Colleagues note her ability to combine deep theoretical insight with hands-on mentoring of graduate students and program leadership.
9 years of coding experience
7 years of employment as a software developer
BS., Mathematics, BS., Mathematics at Nanjing UniversityZhongguancun No.1 Primary SchoolHigh School, High School at The High School Affiliated to Renmin University of ChinaMS., Statistics, MS., Statistics at Bowling Green State UniversityDoctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biostatistics, Doctor of Philosophy (PhD), Biostatistics at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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Github Skills (7)
dimension-reduction9
reduction9
constrained-optimization9
optimization7
deep-reinforcement-learning6
reinforcement-learning6
pytorch2
Programming languages (3)
Github contributions (5)
teazrq/orthoDr
Oct 2017 - Jul 2022
:globe_with_meridians: Orthogonality Constrained Optimization with Applications to Sufficient Dimension Reduction and Personalized Medicine
Contributions:2 releases, 29 commits, 2 PRs in 4 years 10 months
orthogonalitydimension-reductionoptimizationconstrained-optimizationdimension
teazrq/SMLR
May 2018 - Nov 2022
Contributions:120 commits, 117 pushes, 1 branch in 4 years 6 months
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