Lily Wang

About

Lily Wang is a Professor of Statistics at George Mason University. She received her Ph.D. in Statistics from Michigan State University in 2007. Prior to joining Mason in 2021, she was on the faculty of Iowa State University (2014-2021) and the University of Georgia (2007-2014). Professor Wang is highly regarded internationally for her work on non/semi-parametric regression methods. She has broad interests across statistical learning of data objects with complex features, methodologies for functional data, spatiotemporal data, imaging data, and survey sampling. Working at the interface of statistics, mathematics, and computer science, she is also interested in developing cutting-edge statistical methods for solving issues related to data science and big data analytics. The methods she developed have a wide application in economics, engineering, neuroimaging, epidemiology, environmental studies, and biomedical science. Professor Wang is a fellow of both the Institute of Mathematical Statistics (2020) and the American Statistical Association (2021) and an Elected Member of the International Statistical Institute (2008). She is the recipient of multiple NSF awards, SEC Research Fellowship (2019-2020) and ASA/NSF/BLS Senior Research Fellowship (2020-2011), Mid-Career Achievement in Research Award (2021), COVID-19 Exceptional Effort Research Impact Award (2021) from Iowa State University and the M. G. Michael Research Award (2012) from the University of Georgia. Professor Wang is currently serving on the editorial board of Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, Journal of Nonparametric Statistics, and Statistical Analysis and Data Mining.

Work

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Iowa State University

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University of Georgia

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University of Georgia

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Education

Michigan State University

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PhD

Publications

Data Science for Infectious Disease Data Analytics

CRC Press

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Boosting AI-Generated Biomedical Images with Confidence through Advanced Statistical Inference

Journal of the American Statistical Association

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Estimation and Inference of Quantile Spatially Varying Coefficient Models Over Complicated Domains

Journal of the American Statistical Association

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Nonparametric density estimation for scattered spatial data on irregular domains: a likelihood-based approach using bivariate penalised spline smoothing

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

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Spatiotemporal Heterogeneity Learning: Generalized SpatioTemporal Semi‐Varying Coefficient Models With Structure Identification

Journal of Time Series Analysis

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Distributed Heterogeneity Learning for Generalized Partially Linear Models with Spatially Varying Coefficients

Journal of the American Statistical Association

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Efficient Nonparametric Estimation of 3D Point Cloud Signals through Distributed Learning

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

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Two-year follow-up of dementia caregivers after a digital health intervention WECARE: a mixed-method study

Aging & Mental Health

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TSSS: a novel triangulated spherical spline smoothing for surface-based data

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

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Exploring heterogeneity and dynamics of meteorological influences on US PM2.5: A distributed learning approach with spatiotemporal varying coefficient models

Spatial Statistics

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Estimating 1 km gridded daily air temperature using a spatially varying coefficient model with sign preservation

Remote Sensing of Environment

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A global dataset of daily near-surface air temperature at 1-km resolution (2003–2020)

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Nonparametric estimation and inference for spatiotemporal epidemic models

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

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Spatiotemporal autoregressive partially linear varying coefficient models

Statistica Sinica

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Sparse learning and structure identification for ultrahigh-dimensional image-on-scalar regression

Journal of the American Statistical Association

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Comparing and integrating US COVID-19 data from multiple sources with anomaly detection and repairing

Journal of Applied Statistics

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Modeling and forecasting COVID-19

Notices of the American Mathematical Society

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Generalized spatially varying coefficient models

Journal of Computational and Graphical Statistics

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Methods, challenges, and practical issues of COVID-19 projection: a data science perspective

Journal of Data Science

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Multivariate spline estimation and inference for image-on-scalar regression

Statistica Sinica

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Spatially varying coefficient models with sign preservation of the coefficient functions

Journal of Agricultural, Biological and Environmental Statistics

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Genetic factors of Alzheimer's disease modulate how diet is associated with long-term cognitive trajectories: a UK Biobank Study

Journal of Alzheimer's Disease

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Walking in the Light: How History of Physical Activity, Sunlight, and Vitamin D Account for Body Fat—A UK Biobank Study

Obesity

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Simultaneous confidence corridors for mean functions in functional data analysis of imaging data

Biometrics

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Spatial autoregressive partially linear varying coefficient models

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

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Estimation and inference for generalized geoadditive models

Journal of the American Statistical Association

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Simultaneous confidence band for stationary covariance function of dense functional data

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

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Estimation and inference for functional linear regression models with partially varying regression coefficients

Stat

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Efficient estimation of partially linear models for data on complicated domains by bivariate penalized splines over triangulations

Statistica Sinica

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Sparse model identification and learning for ultra-high-dimensional additive partially linear models

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

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Aging-related changes in fluid intelligence, muscle and adipose mass, and sex-specific immunologic mediation: A longitudinal UK Biobank study

Brain, Behavior, and Immunity

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Sparse model identification and learning for ultra-high-dimensional additive partially linear models

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

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Variable selection for partially linear proportional hazards model with covariate measurement error

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

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Additive partially linear models for ultra‐high‐dimensional regression

Stat

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Regional soil erosion assessment based on a sample survey and geostatistics

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

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Estimation and inference in spatially varying coefficient models

Environmetrics

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Semi-parametric prediction intervals in small areas when auxiliary data are measured with error

Statistica Sinica

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Simultaneous inference for the mean of repeated functional data

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

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Simultaneous inference for the mean of repeated functional data

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

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Efficient estimation for generalized partially linear single-index models

Bernoulli

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Oracle-efficient confidence envelopes for covariance functions in dense functional data

Statistica Sinica

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Partially time-varying coefficient proportional hazards models with error-prone time-dependent covariates—an application to the AIDS Clinical Trial Group 175 data

The Annals of Applied Statistics

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Spline estimation and variable selection for single-index prediction models with diverging number of index parameters

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

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Variable selection and estimation for longitudinal survey data

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

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Estimation and model selection in generalized additive partial linear models for correlated data with diverging number of covariates

The Annals of Statistics

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A simultaneous confidence corridor for varying coefficient regression with sparse functional data

Test

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Bivariate penalized splines for regression

Statistica Sinica

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Simultaneous variable selection and estimation in semiparametric modeling of longitudinal/clustered data

Bernoulli

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Efficient semiparametric GARCH modeling of financial volatility

Statistica Sinica

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Spline confidence bands for functional derivatives

Journal of Statistical Planning and Inference

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Nonparametric additive model-assisted estimation for survey data

Journal of Multivariate Analysis

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Estimation and variable selection for semiparametric additive partial linear models

Statistica Sinica

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Security price responses to unexpected earnings: a nonparametric investigation

Statistical Methods & Applications

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A nonparametric analysis on the environmental Kuznets curve

Environmetrics

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Estimation and variable selection for generalized additive partial linear models

The Annals of Statistics

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Simultaneous confidence bands for time-series prediction function

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

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Single-index model-assisted estimation in survey sampling

Journal of Nonparametric Statistics

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Spline estimation of single-index models

Statistica Sinica

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Management effects on relationships of crop yields with topography represented by wetness index and precipitation

Agronomy Journal

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Spline-backfitted kernel smoothing of nonlinear additive autoregression model

The Annals of Statistics

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Strong uniform convergence of the recursive regression estimator under f-mixing conditions

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