Aug. 2018 - present: Lecturer I, Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh
Aug. 2016 - May. 2018: Assistant Professor, Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Duquesne University
Teaching Interests
- Elementary Statistics
- Mathematical Statistics
- Data Science
- Bayesian Data Analysis
Education & Training
- PhD, Statistics, University of South Carolina, 2016
- M.A. Mathematical Statistics, Wayne State University, 2007
- M.S. Financial Engineering, Columbia University, 2003
Courses
- STAT 200 Basic Applied Statistics, Fall 2018
- STAT 1261 Principles of Data Science, Fall 2018
Representative Publications
- Bao, J. and Hanson, T. (2015). Bayesian Nonparametric Multivariate Ordinal Regression. Canadian Journal of Statistics, 43, 337-357.
- Bao, J., Hanson, T., McMillan, G. P. and Knight, K. (2016). Assessment of Distortion Product Otoacoustic Emissions Test-Retest Difference Curves via Hierarchical Gaussian Processes. Biometrics, doi:10.1111/biom.12550.
- Bao, J. and Hanson, T. (2016) A Mean-Constrained Finite Mixture of Normals Model. Statistics & Probability Letters, 117, 93-99.
- Abdelfatah, K., Bao,J. , and Terejanu, G. (2018) Geospatial Uncertainty Modeling Using Stacked Gaussian Processes. Environmental Modelling and Software 109: 293-305.