Anru Zhang
Scholar

Anru Zhang

Google Scholar ID: H-PvgRsAAAAJ
Duke University
machine learninghigh-dimensional statisticsnon-convex optimizationbiomedical informaticsgenomics
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Resume (English only)
Academic Achievements
  • COPSS Emerging Leader Award (2024)
  • IMS Tweedie Award (2022)
  • ASA Gottfried E. Noether Junior Award (2021)
  • NSF CAREER Award (2020)
  • AMIA Data Science Outstanding Paper Award (2023)
  • Named Eugene Anson Stead, Jr. M.D. Associate Professor at Duke
  • Former PhD students Yuetian Luo (Rutgers) and Yuchen Zhou (UIUC) have secured tenure-track faculty positions
  • Paper 'Why Do Transformers Fail to Forecast Time Series In-Context?' selected as oral presentation at NeurIPS 2025 workshop (3 out of 68 submissions)
Background
  • Tenured faculty with joint appointments in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics and Department of Computer Science at Duke University
  • Former Assistant Professor of Statistics at UW-Madison
  • Research interests include tensor learning, generative models, high-dimensional statistics, electronic health records, healthcare, and microbiome studies
  • Serves as Associate Chair for Research in the Department of Biostatistics & Bioinformatics at Duke
  • Associate Editor for Annals of Statistics, JASA (Applications & Case Studies), JASA (Theory & Methodology), Statistica Sinica, and Statistics and Its Interface
  • Area Chair for ICLR 2023 and 2024