Junshu Bao

  • Teaching Associate Professor

Aug. 2021 – present: Lecturer II, Department of Statistics, University of Pittsburgh

Aug. 2018 – Aug. 2021: 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

Courses

  • STAT 200 Basic Applied Statistics
  • STAT 1000 Applied Statistical Methods
  • STAT 1152 Introduction to Mathematical Statistics
  • STAT 1261/2260 Principles of Data Science
  • STAT 1301/2300 Statistical Packages
  • STAT 1293/2292 Topics in Applied Statistics II

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.