I am Jian (Jim) Zhang, a Ph.D. student in the Department of Statistics, College of Mathematical and Physical Sciences at The Ohio State University.
I got B.S. and M.S. degree in the Department of Urban and Environmental Sciences at Peking University.
My coadvisors are Noel Cressie and Peter F. Craigmile. Currently, I am working in SSES program.
My research interests include the following areas: statistical methodologies for spatial data, prediction of spatial extremes and their locations, hierarchical Bayesian modeling, integration of GIS and spatial statistics.
I am a member of American Statistical Association, and Institute of Mathematical Statistics