Zhenke Wu, PhD

Zhenke Wu Research

Name in Chinese: 吴振科 . Pronounced: “Jen-Kuh Wu”.

Here are my publication samples. My CV is here, contact info is here. My GitHub is here and Bio is here. A recent faculty profile is here.

The best way to contact me is email. Direction to my office is here.

I am an Assistant Professor in the Department of Biostatistics at University of Michigan, with joint appointment as Research Assistant Professor in Michigan Institute for Data Science (MIDAS). I am also Faculty Associate in Quantitative Methodology Program, Survey Research Center of Institute for Social Research (ISR), University of Michigan.

I am interested in the design and application of statistical methods that inform health decisions made by individuals, or precision medicine. My current focus is on latent variable and causal inference methods that can support disease etiology studies, medical diagnosis, and health policy evaluation. Broadly, the statistical goal is to discover simple latent structures that improve inferences and population parameters and individual latent states. I have also worked on causal inference methods 1) to evaluate novel treatment rules under special designs like matched-pair cluster randomized design, as these designs are useful for interventions that can only be applied at cluster level; and 2) to facilitate the inference for novel estimands in semiparametric models by automating and unifying the derivation of efficient influence functions (EIF) and ensuing estimation.

Currently a major focus of my work is on the analysis of multiple mixed-type longitudinal measurements with feedbacks in treatment assignments. I am working on hierarchical Bayesian methods to infer latent trajectories that represent individual disease progressions that have direct applications to childhood pneumonia etiology studies, analyses of electronic health records and claims data, and just-in-time adaptive interventions (JITAI) in mobile health (mHealth) studies.

Postdoc Openning

[Priority Review by May 15, 2020] Postdoc Position on Statistical Methods to Individualize Care for Mental Health

Graduate Student Research Assistantship Openning

[Beginning September 2020] Graduate Student Research Assistantship (GSRA) in Statistical Methods for Improving Outcomes for Care Partners of Persons with Traumatic Brain Injury

Advising: We are recruiting motivated and hard-working students interested in Bayesian methods and computation, graphical models and large-scale health data analytics. If you are interested in joining the group, please apply to Biostatistics at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. If you are an undergrad or grad student at the University of Michigan, and you are interested in any of the papers or projects listed on this website, send me an email with your interests and CV.

Working Groups

Research interests:

Bayesian hierarchical models: biomarkers, data integration, scalable computation, model-averaging;
Latent variable models: dynamics, measurement errors, local dependence, partial-identifiability;
Robust inference: bias reduction, efficiency enhancement by covariate-calibration, semiparametric locally efficient estimation, deductive inference;
Causal analysis of modern study designs;
Collaborations: mental health, infectious disease, autoimmune disease, medical diagnosis, epidemiology, health policy, cancer, mobile health, Just-in-time adaptive interventions for behaviorial and psychiatric research.

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