Statistics

Shujie Ma Associate Professor Office: 1418 Olmsted Hall  Mail:1337 Olmsted Hall University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92521 Email: shujie.ma@ucr.edu Voice: 951-827-3730 Fax: 951-827-3286 Website: http://faculty.ucr.edu/~shujiema

Class Offerings:

• STAT 155: Probability and Statistics for Science and Engineering
• STAT 171: General Statistical Models
• STAT 201A-B-C: Theory of Probability and Statistics
• STAT 205: Discrete Data Analysis
• STAT255J: Longitudinal Data Analysis

Education:

Ph.D. Statistics, Michigan State University, 2011
M.S. Statistics,  Michigan State University, 2006
B.S. Management, Xi'an Jiaotong Univerisity, 2004

Research:

• Precision (personalized) medicine

• Factor models, large-scale data analysis
• Inference of high-dimensional data, functional data and nonlinear time series data
• Asymptotic theory, stochastic processes, extreme value theory
• Applications to gene-environment interaction, environmental risk assessment, medicine and financial data

Publications:

• He, K., Lian, H., Ma, S., and Huang, J. Z. (2017+) Dimensionality Reduction and Variable Selection in Multivariate Varying-Coefficient Models with a Large Number of Covariates. JASA - Theory and Methods (In press)

• ​Ma, S., Ma, Y., Wang, Y., and Carroll, R. J. (2016+) A Semiparametric Single-Index Risk Score Across Populations. JASA - Theory and Methods (In press)

• Ma, S., Li, R. and Tsai, C.L. (2016+) Variable Screening via Partial Quantile Correlation. JASA - Theory and Methods (In press)

• Ma, S., and Huang, J. (2017) A Concave Pairwise Fusion Approach to Subgroup Analysis. JASA - Theory and Methods, 112, 410-432

• Ma, S. and He, X. (2016) Inference for Single-index Quantile Regression Models with Profile Optimization. Annals of Statistics, 44, 1234-1268

• Ma, S., Carroll, R. J., Liang, H. and Xu, S. (2015) Estimation and Inference in Generalized Additive Coefficient Models for Nonlinear Interactions with High-dimensional Covariates. Annals of Statistics, 43, 2102-2131

• Ma, S. and Song, P. X.K. (2015) Varying Index Coefficient Models. JASA - Theory and Methods, 110, 341-356

• Ma, S. (2012) Two-step Spline Estimating Equations for Generalized Additive Partially Linear Models with Large Cluster Sizes. Annals of Statistics, 40, 2943-2972

  Grants:

• PI: NSF DMS-1712558, 2017-2020, New nonparametric modeling methods for high-dimensional time series

• Hellman Fellowship, 2015-2016, Varying coefficient modeling for environmental risk assessment

• Co-PI: NIH R01 (R01ES024732), 2015-2019, Statistical methods to assess early life environmental exposures on child health (PI: Song, P. X.K. from University of Michigan; Co-PI: Ma, S. 10% effort)

• PI: NSF DMS-1306972, 2013-2016, Estimation, model selection and inference in two classes of non- and semi-parametric models for repeated measurements

  Honors and Awards:

• Hellman Fellowship, 2015

• Regents Faculty Fellowship by Riverside Division of the Academic Senate, 2012

• Travel Grant from the Academic Senate Research Funds at UC Riverside, 2012

• Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute, 2012

• Dissertation Completion Fellowship (Michigan State University, January-May 2011

• Chinese Government Award for Outstanding Students Abroad, 2010

• NSF Travel Award, Third Midwest Statistics Research Colloquium, 2010

• Laha Award (Institute of Mathematical Statistics, August 2009

• Stapleton Travel Award, Michigan State University, 2009
• Young Research Fellowship, UFL 11th Annual Winter Workshop, 2009

 Editorial Service:

• Associate Editor, Statistica Sinica, 2017 to present.
• Associate Editor, Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference, 2014 to present.