Binyan Jiang Department of Applied Mathematics Phone: (852)-2766 6349 Hong Kong Polytechnic University Email: by.jiang@polyu.edu.hk

Academic Qualifications • Doctor of Philosophy Aug 2007- Feb 2012

Department of Statistics and Applied ProbabilityNational University of SingaporeSupervisor: Professor Wei-Liem, Loh

• Bachelor of Science Sep 2003- Jul 2007 Department of Statistics and FinanceUniversity of Science and Technology of ChinaFinal year project supervisor: Dr Zhishui, Hu

Working Experiences • Assistant Professor: Aug 2015 – Now

Department of Applied MathematicsHong Kong Polytechnic University

• Visiting Research Scientist: Sep 2013 – Aug 2015 Living Analytics Research Centre, Heinz College& Department of Statistics (courtesy appointment)Carnegie Mellon UniversitySupervisor: Professor Stephen E. Fienberg

• Research Fellow: Jul 2013 – Aug 2013 Living Analytics Research CentreSingapore Management UniversitySupervisor: Professor Ee-Peng Lim

• Research Fellow: Jul 2012 – Jun 2013 Department of Statistics and Applied ProbabilityNational university of SingaporeSupervisor: Professor Wei-Liem, Loh

Publications Statistical methodology • Binyan Jiang and Wei-Liem, Loh (2012) On the sparsity of signals in a random

sample. Biometrika. 99(4) 915-928.• Jialiang Li, Binyan Jiang and Jason P. Fine (2013) Multicategory Reclassification

statistics for assessing improvements in diagnostic accuracy. Biostatistics. 14(2) 382-394.

• Jialiang Li, Binyan Jiang and Jason P. Fine (2013) Author’s response. Biostatistics.14(4) 809-810.

• Binyan Jiang (2013) Covariance selection by thresholding the sample correlationmatrix. Statistics and Probability Letters. 83(11) 2492-2498.

• Binyan Jiang (2015) An empirical Bayes estimator for the sparsity of a covariance

matrix under Gaussian assumptions. Annals of the Institute of Statistical Mathematics. 67(2) 211-227.

• Jialiang Li, Xiaochao Xia, Binyan Jiang and Wenyang Zhang (2015) Penalized AFTmodel with confounder adjustment. Lifetime data analysis. To appear.

• Binyan Jiang and Chenlei Leng (2013) High dimensional discrimination analysis via asemiparametric model. Statistics and Probability Letters. To appear.

Collaborative work • Kwan Hui Lim, Binyan Jiang, Ee-Peng Lim and Palakorn Achananuparp (2014) Do

you know the speaker? An online experiment with authority messages on eventwebsites. Proceedings of the companion publication of the 23rd internationalconference on World wide web companion. International World Wide WebConferences Steering Committee, 2014. p. 1247-1252.

• Singh Leher, et al. (2015) Back to basics: a bilingual advantage in infant visual habituation. Child Development. 86(1) 294-302.

Submitted • Binyan Jiang, Ziqi Chen and Chenlei Leng (2014) High dimensional dynamic linear

discrimination analysis.• Binyan Jiang and Jialiang Li (2014) Sample size determination for high dimensional

parameter estimation with application to biomarker identification.• Binyan Jiang, Xiangyu Wang, Chenlei Leng (2015) QUDA: A direct approach for

sparse quadratic discriminant analysis.• Kwan Hui Lim, Ee-Peng Lim, Binyan Jiang and Palakorn Achananuparp (2015) Who

is the sender? Authority effects on user behavior in email campaigns.

Work in Progress • On the sparsity of linear regression models.• High dimensional sample size determination. (With Jialiang Li)• Inferring static and dynamic social graph from a stream of mobile phone trajectories.

(With Yuxiang Wang and Stephen E. Fienberg)• Logistic learning (With Jialiang Li, Rui Song and Donglin Zeng)

Professional Services • Served as a reviewer for the following journals: Biometrics; Computational Statistics

& Data Analysis; Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference; Journal of Multivariate Analysis; Journal of Mathematics Research; Journal of the Royal Statistical Society (Series B); Statistics and Probability Letters.