Chunming Zhang
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Chunming Zhang is a Chinese and American statistician whose research involves nonparametric statistics and semiparametric models with applications including neuroscience and statistical finance. She is a professor of statistics at the University of Wisconsin–Madison,[1] and the chair of the Nonparametric Statistics Section of the American Statistical Association.[2]
Zhang was an undergraduate at Nankai University, and earned a master's degree through the Chinese Academy of Sciences.[3] She completed a Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2000. Her dissertation, Topics in the Generalized Likelihood Ratio Test, was supervised by Jianqing Fan.[4]
She joined the University of Wisconsin–Madison as an assistant professor in 2000, and has been a full professor since 2010.[3]