Hao Wang   

     

Contact

Mail: 219B LeConte College, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC 29208 USA
Email: haowang AT sc DOT edu
Phone: (803) 777-4348

Employment

Assistant Professor of Statistics, University of South Carolina, August 2010 — Current


Education

Ph.D., Statistical Science, Duke University, 2010
M.S., Statistical Science, Duke University, 2008
B.S., Mathematical Statistics, Nankai University, 2006


Current Research Interests

High-dimensional statistical inference and computation, machine learning, Bayesian econometrics


Working Papers

Minhua Chen, Hao Wang, Xuejun Liao and Lawrence Carin, Bayesian Learning of Sparse Gaussian Graphical Models. [pdf]


Published Papers

H. Wang, Coordinate Descent Algorithm for Covariance Graphical Lasso. Statistics and Computing (Forthcoming) [html]

Y. He, X. Chen, and H. Wang, Modeling correlated sample via sparse matrix Gaussian graphical models. Journal of Zhejiang University Science C: Computer and Electronics (Forthcoming) [html]

H. Wang and N. S. Pillai, 2013, On a Class of Shrinkage Priors for Covariance Matrix Estimation. Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics (Forthcoming) [html]

H. Wang, The Bayesian Graphical Lasso and Efficient Posterior Computation.  Bayesian Analysis 7(2):771— 790, 2012. [html]

H. Wang and S. Z. Li, Efficient Gaussian Graphical Model Determination under G-Wishart Prior Distributions. Electronic Journal of Statistics 6 (2012):168— 198 [html]

H. Wang and J. P. Reiter, Multiple Imputation for Sharing Precise Geographies in Public Use Data. Annals of Applied Statistics 6 (2012): 229— 252 [html]

H. Wang, C. Reeson and C. M. Carvalho, Dynamic Financial Index Models: Modeling Conditional Dependencies via Graphs. Bayesian Analysis 6 (2011): 639— 664[html]

H. Wang and C. M. Carvalho, Simulation of Hyper-Inverse Wishart Distributions for Non-decomposable Graphs. Electronic Journal of Statistics 4 (2010):1467— 1470 [html]

H. Wang, Sparse Seemingly Unrelated Regression Modelling: Applications in Econometrics and Finance. Computational Statistics and Data Analysis 54 (2010): 2866— 2877[html]

H. Wang and M. West, Bayesian analysis of matrix normal graphical models. Biometrika 96 (2009):821— 834 [html]


Teaching

        

         Stat 720  Time Series Analysis (Spring 2013).

         Stat 509   Statistics for Engineers (Fall 2012).

         Stat 513   Theory of Statistical Inference (Fall 2012).

         Stat 110  Introduction to Statistical Reasoning (Spring 2012).

         Stat 509  Statistics for Engineers (Fall 2011).

         Stat 720  Time Series Analysis (Spring 2011).

         Stat 509  Statistics for Engineers (Fall 2010).