Zhaowei Hua

Education

PhD in Biostatistics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 08/2005-present

MS in Biostatistics, UNC-Chapel Hill, 08/2004-05/2007

BM in Basic Medical Science, Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China, 08/1997-07/2002

Research Interests

Emotion dynamic pattern

Brain Imaging

Nonparametric Bayesian

Honors and Awards

08/2009 Travel Award from the American Statistical Association (ASA) Section on Statistics in Epidemiology (SIE)

05/2009 Student Travel Award, School of Public Health, UNC-Chapel Hill

08/2006-08/2009 Genomics and Cancer Training Grant Recipient, National Institutes of Health

09/2006 Super Star at Survey Research Unit (SRU), UNC-Chapel Hill

2000 Excellent Medical Student at Peking University Health Science Center, Beijing, China

Publications

Journal Papers

1. Zhaowei Hua, Hongtu Zhu, and David B. Dunson. Semiparametric Bayes local additive models for longitudinal data. Biometrics. (To be submitted)

2. Zhaowei Hua, Sy-Miin Chow, and Hongtu Zhu. Semiparametric Bayesian Time-Varying Circumplex Model of Longitudinal Circumplex Data. (working paper)

3. Wenjin Li, Lingfei Hou, Zhaowei Hua, and Xian Wang. Interleukin-1ß induces ß-calcitonin gene-related peptide secretion in human type II alveolar epithelial cells. FASEB J. 2004.

4. Yan Bai, Zhaowei Hua, and Xian Wang. The roles of PKC and NF-? B pathways in IL-1?-induced expression and secretion of ß-calcitonin gene-related peptide. Journal of Chinese Physiology, (Supplement, meeting abstracts for the 21st Chinese Physiological Annual Conference), 2002.

Conference Presentations

1. Zhaowei Hua, and David B. Dunson. Semiparametric Bayes local additive models for longitudinal data. 7th Workshop on Bayesian Nonparametrics. Collegio Carlo Alberto. Italy. June 21 to 25, 2009. (Poster)

2. Zhaowei Hua, and David B. Dunson. Semiparametric Bayes local additive models for longitudinal data. Joint Statistical Meeting. Washington DC, August 1 – 6, 2009. (Oral)