About Me

I am an assistant professor of the Dr. Bing Zhang Department of Statistics, University of Kentucky, Lexington. My research interests include machine learning, privacy-aware decentralized learning, deep learning, statistical inference, model selection and diagnostics.

Publications

J. Zhang, Y. Yang, J. Ding, Additive-effect assisted learning

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B: Statistical Methodology 88.2 (2026): 657-676, link

J. Zhang, J. Ding, Y. Yang, Target cross-validation

Bernoulli 29 (1) (2023), 377--402, link

J. Zhang, J. Ding, Y. Yang, Is a classification procedure good enough? a goodness-of-fit assessment tool for classification learning

Journal of the American Statistical Association 118.542 (2023): 1115-1125, link

X. Wang, J. Zhang, M. Hong, Y. Yang, J. Ding, Parallel assisted learning

IEEE Transactions on Signal Processing 70 (2022), 5848--5858, link

J. Zhang, Y. Yang, J. Ding, Information criteria for model selection

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Computational Statistics (2023): e1607, link

E. Diao, G. Wang, J. Zhang, Y. Yang, J. Ding, V. Tarokh, Pruning deep neural networks from a sparsity perspective

submitted to ICLR 2023, accepted

C. Chen, J. Zhang (co‐first author), J. Ding, Y. Zhou, Assisted learning with unsupervised domain adaptation

Abstracts of papers IEEE International Symposium on Information Theory. 2023, link

X. Tang, J. Zhang (co-first author), Y. He, X. Zhang, Z. Lin, S. Partarrieu, E. B. Hanna, Z. Ren, Y. Yang, X. Wang, N. Li, J. Ding, J. Liu, Multi-task learning for single-cell multi-modality biology

Nature Communications 14, 2546 (2023), pdf

Teaching

Introduction to Data Science STA305
Introduction to Probability STA320
Introduction to Linear Models and Experimental Design STA603
Introduction to Statistical Methods STA602

Software

Author and maintainer of the R package BAGofT published in CRAN that implements the methods given in the paper "Is a classification procedure good enough? a goodness‐of‐fit assessment tool for classification learning" paper