"Statistic Problems in Plant Phenotyping” and “Functional analysis on Curve Fitting”

Dr. Qiu's research interest is mainly on high-dimensional statistical inference and its application in genetic analysis with particularly focus on testing and estimating large covariance matrices, testing sparse and weak treatment effects among large amounts of genes, and multi-group classification under high dimensionality. Dr. Xu's research interests include non-parametric and semi-parametric statistical methods, functional data analysis, survival analysis, measurement error, etc.